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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19269, 5 September 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL.

VTce-begal. The Governor-General (Viscount Jellicoe), accompanied by Viscountess Jellicoe, will pay a farewell visit to Dunedin prior to his departure lor Great Britain. His Excellency has advised the Mayor of Dunedin (Mr H. L. Tapley) of the following arrangements: Their Excellencies will arrive in Dunedin from Invercargill at 6.55 p.m. on Friday, October 10, and will leave for the north at 11.15 a.m. on Tuesday, October 14. The Mayor and his Civic Committee are making arrangements for various functions in connection with the visit. During their stay in Dunedin their Excellencies will be the guests of Mr and Mrs C. W. Rattray.

Sergeant G. Sivyer, of Wellington, has been transferred to Wanganui. Sergeant Sivyer was for some years court orderly in Dunedin.

Air James Sowers, clerk in the District Railway Traffic Manager’s office, will bo transferred to Wellington shortly. Mr J. B. Shaddock was a passenger by the express yesterday morning, en route for Wellington. Mr Jas. Carruthers left Dunedin yesterday morning by train for Christchurch, en route to Wellington and Auckland. • Messrs Win. Scott and W. Hughes, general manager and accountant, respectively, for the New Zealand Picture Supplies, were passengers by the express for Christchurch yesterday morning. A cablegram from London states that Mr Cyril Maude, the actor, will retire in 1925 after his farewell visit .to America. Dr E. Brown, of Dunedin, who was chosen out of 23 applicants as medical practitioner 'by the Edendale Progressive League, is expected to arrive at Edendale about the end of the present week. Constable P. Stouter has been transferred to the Portobelio district, after 11 years’ service at Port Chalmers, where he won esteem as a careful and capable officer. Mr V. F. Riddle, who has retired from the position of inspector of the Union Bank of Australia in New Zealand, will leave for London from Auckland by the Ruahine next .week. At the Wellington competitions Miss Madge Tates, of Dunedin, was successful in the recitation for the Wellington Competition Society’s Scholarship. She was also placed second in musical monologue. A cablegram from ’ Sydney reports the death at Noumea of Brigadier : general Roth, aged 66. He was a prominent medical man. and a member of General Godley’s staff in Egypt and France. His widow lives in Christchurch. Dr Alan E. Park, who was awarded the diploma of F.R.C.S. (England) in Juno last, has just returned to Wellington after two years’ post-graduate work and experience in various London hospitals. Dr Park will practise his profession 'in Wellington. - At the annual meeting of the Grange Cricket dub last night the president (Mr A. Bestieaux) mad* reference to the death on Wednesday night of Mr George Hansom, aged 20 years, a senior player of the dab; Air Sonsom, he said, had been one of their brightest juniors, and one of the most promising seniors, and his death was a sad blow to the club as well as to his family. Those present stood in silence for a few moments as a tribute to their late club mate.