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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19946, 13 November 1926, Page 14

PERSONAL.

Mr A. H. Kimboll (Under-secretar.v for Mines) was a passenger by the train from the north last night. * Mr T. VV. Rhodes, M.P. for lhamos, was a passenger from the north by last night’s express. Sir William Sim will proceed to Invercargill on Monday to preside over the quarterly sittings of the S' "mo Court there. . Constable J. Smith, .who has been stationed at St. Kilda for the past three years, will shortly retire from the police force. , Mr J. F. Downey, inspector of Mines, Reefton, was a passenger by last night’s express train from the north. Mr C. VV. Rattray, who returned by the Aorangi on Sunday last from a tour of the Old Country, arrived in Dunedin hv last night’s train from the north. Miss Rita Holmes, who was a successful competitor at the Dunedin Competitions Society’s recent festival, has been engaged by the Christchurch Choral Society to sing the soprano solo? in “The Messiah. Miss Catharine Murray, _ cf Milton, whom the member- of the Rgyp* General Mission welcomed in June, 1915, as a fellow missionary in Egypt, is on furlou in New Zealand, and is at present visitingfnends in Dunedin. For about five year? she has been in charge of women’s work and the Girls School at Ismalia, here about 100 girls are in attendance. The evangelistic work and village visiting of this station have also been under h- supervision, and sbo has proved herself an efficient and useful missionary. ' The Mayor of Mosgiel (Mr .T. P. Walls), at the weekly practice of the Mosgiel Muni cipal Band on Thursday evening, wa. pro sente-d bv Bandmaster Wyte, on behalf o! the band, with a cold-mounted fountab pen, suitably inscribed. The bandmastc said that the members of the hand recog nised that it was largely due to the Mayor’s efforts that the recent carnival in aid of the hand’s funds had been so successful, and the gift was in recognition of the assistance ho had iven them. Mr Walls, in acknowledging the presentation, said his efforts would have been of litfle avail hut for the assistance given by all sections of the communitv.