PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19785, 10 May 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Mr W. Quirk was a passenger for Timaru by the second express on Saturday. Mr W. I. Hessell, district traffic manager at Invercargill, was a passenger by the through express on Saturday, en route to Wellington, to attend a traffic managers’ conference. A Hobart cablegram announces the death of the Homan Catholic Archbishop (.Dr Patrick Delaney), at the nge of 73. Mr R. P. M’Crackcn, who is well known in Dunedin and Otago, has resigned from the service of the Railway Department, and has cone into business in Wellington on his own account. Air Ernest W'ilson, who has been representing Messrs Spear and Jackson and Joseph Rodgers and Sons (Ltd.) at the Exhibition, will leave to-day for a business trip through the Dominion. Mr H. P. West, district traffic manager in Dunedin, left bj the second express on Saturday, err route to Wellington, where he will attend a conference of railway traffic managers. During Air West’s absence Air Jolm Pici..ird, assistant traffic manager, will be acting traffic manager. The staff of the warehouse of Messrs Laidlaw and Gray met on Thursday evening to make presentations to Air R. Driver and Air J. Watson. Air Driver was celebiating his gulden wedding and Air Watson his silver The former was presented with a comfortable armchair and the latter w! a silver teapot and a hot water jug. The recipients suitably ackno /• ledged the gifts. Colonel J. Schlater, the Australian representative of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who has visited Dunedin at different periods during the currency of the Exhibition will leave for the north this morning en route for Sydney. Mr C. J. M’Kenzie, Acting Engineer-m-Chief and Under-Secrotary of the Public Works Department, has been appointed a member of the Engineers’ Registration Board, in succession to Mr F. W. Furkert, who is on leave abroad. It was announced at tho meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union in Wellington last week that Mr W. J. Poison and the other members of the delegation which had been sent abroad by the New Zealand Government to inquire into the working of rural banks would reach Sydney on July 8. It was hoped that Mr Poison would be back in time for tho Dominion conference of the union. Advice has been received that Mr T. S. Tomlinson will succeed Mr P. L. Porter as manager of the Invercargill branch .of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr Tomlinson was formerly accountant in the Invercargill branch. He was promoted to the position of accountant at Auckland, and then to tho position of manager at Feilding. Mr J. M‘G. Wilkie, engineer to the Otago Harbour Board, left Dunedin on Saturday for the United States and Great Britain. At the station he was given a. fitting send-off by members of the board, the board’s staff, headed by the secretary (Mr W- J. Bardsley), and numerous friends. Mr Wilkie will leave Wellington by the Corinthic He will disembark from .this vessel at Colon, and will to New Orleans, Chicago, Buffalo, and New York. After this he will visit .Canada and return to New York, sailing from that port for Great Britain. Mr Wilkie is accompanied by his wife and her sister (Mrs Leo Smith). ... A very large gathering of the citizens of Lower Hutt assembled in the Council Chambers last Thursday evening to bid farewell to Mr 1. M’Gregor, postmaster, who has been promoted to Gore, after serving ■at Lower Hutt for three years. Mr Westbury (president of the Businessmen’s Association), who presided, said that Mr M'Gregor had earned the goodwill and esteem of the citizens for the capable, courteous, and obliging manner he had carried out his duties. The Mayor (Mr W. 1. Strand) then presented Mr M’Gregor with a travelling bag and Mrs M’Gregor with a travelling rug, on behalf of the citizens of Lower Hutt. Mr and Mrs M'Gregor left Wellington for Gore on Saturday. On a world tour in search of health. Bishop Paddock, accompanied by Mrs Paddock arrived in Auckland from Rotorua on Thursday last. Bishop Paddock is a member of the American Episcopal Church, a branch of the Church of England, and was Bishop of Eastern Oregon from until he resigned on account of failing health in 1922. Before accepting the bishopric he held many important posts his church, notably as Canon of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and as Rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, both in New York- For a. term 1m was general secretary of the Christian Students Missionary Association. Bishop Paddock came to New Zealand via South America, South Africa, and Austra in, and, landing at Wellington, he travelled through the North Island via , Napier, Taupe, and Rotorua.