PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19890, 9 September 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Mr De Spong left by the south expressyesterday to adjudicate at the Winton Competitions Society’s eighth annual festnMr W. H. Hagger (Conciliation Commissioner) left for Invercargill yesterday on business connected with the Southland cheese factory managers’ claims. At the last meeting of the Dunedin \theneeum and Mechanics* Institute, Dr Dickie and Mi H. C.. Stephens were elected to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of Dr Lawson and Mr Brebnet. Mrs Elizabeth Mathewson, who was one of the pioneer settlers at Port Chalmers, died at Renwick, Blenheim, on Tuesday, in her seventy-eighth year. Her husband pre-deceased her a few years ago. She leaves a grown-up family. A Greymouth Press Association message announces the death of Mr Adam Blair, aged 75, the oldest member of the Grey County Council, a prominent sawmiller, and the oldest member of the Greymouth Jockey Club. He arrived on the West Coast in 1866. A Press Association message trom Wellington reports that the Victoria College nominations for the Rhodes Scholar for 1927 are Messrs Malcolm Leadbetter, M.A., and W. G. Kalaugher, M.A. Mr /Leadbetter is mathematics master at St. Andrew’s College, Christchurch, and Mr Kalaugher is assistant master at the Wellington College. A Palmerston North Press Association telegram reports tbat the death occurred on Tuesday evening of Mr Charles A. M. Hirtzel, a veteran of the Maori wars ; and a survivor of the engagement, le Ngutu o Te Manu, in which Major Von lempsky was killed. Deceased had been curator of the museum for many years. At yesterday’s session of the Wellington competitions Miss Anita Winkel tied with another competitor for second place in the recital in character. Mr A. H. Robinson, w. i went from here to the Old Country under the exchange of teachers scheme, and who was well known in Dunedin in connection with school music, will retprn by the Manuka to-day. During his stay in England Mr Robinson specialised in the study of the voice, and received instruction and advice from some of the greatest authorities on the subject in London. That his efforts embraced a wide field can be gathered from the fact that he visited St. Thomas’s Hospital twice a week to ascertain the best methods of dealing with voice troubles, and he was invited by a noted authority on phonology (Dr Aikin) to attend his lectures to London teachers of music. Mr A. T. Markman, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, has resigned his position and has accepted that of general manager of the Pacific Gable Board for New Zealand (states a Wellington Press Association message). He has been 38 years in the Government service, and became secretary three years ago. In the ordinary course no doubt Mr Macnamara. assistant secretary, will succeed him. The creating of the post which Mr Markman now takes is looked upon as a presumption that the PacificBoard expects a big expansion in New Zealand business as soon ns the cable is duplicated, which should be well before the end of the year. Shun the inquisitive, for he is ever a leaky vessel