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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 14

PERSONAL.

Vice-Regal. A Press Association telegram from Hamilton reports that the Governor-Gene-ral and Lady Alice Fergusson, who are visiting the Thames Valley, were at Te Aroha on Thursday afternoon, where they were welcomed by the citizens, the school children, the Boy Scouts, and the Girl Guides. Yesterday afternoon the Gover-nor-General unveiled a war memorial at Matamata. Mr John Albert Colin Mackenzie was admitted yesterday by his Honor Mr Justice Sim as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr Robert Riley, associate editor of the Christchurch Sun, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. A Press Association cablegram from London states that Mr G. D. Robb, of New Zealand, has been made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. At the first meeting of the newly-elected council of the Peninsula County Mr H. Macandrew was elected chairman and Mr W. Fleming county clerk, pro tem. A Hamilton Press Association telegram states that the First Church at Frankton decided to address a call to the Rev. L. M. Rogers, assistant minister at Knox Church, Dunedin. Mr Sinclair Carruthers has been transferred to Auckland in the capacity of advertising manager for Gordon and Go.tch Advertising in that city. Professor Lawson and Mr Angus Marshall, members of the Primary Schools’ Syllabus Committee, returned to Dunedin from Wellington by the first express yesterday. Mr J. Sutherland Ross stated at the meeting of the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association last night that he would be absent from the Dominion during the early part of next year. He hoped to be back, however, before anything definite was done in connection with the proposed tariff revision There was unveiled at Culverden on Sun day, November 21, in the presence of a large gathering, a memorial to the late Dr C. T. Little, who for 16 years practised in the Amuri district. The memorial service was conducted by the Rev. F. Nelligan, the Rev. J. Newlands delivering the address, in which he dealt with the life of the late Dr Little, to whose qualities and self-sacrificing service other speakers also bore witness. The late Dr Little was a member of a Dunedin family, a distinguished student of Otago University, and graduate of its Medical School. Dr G Einar dii Rietz, a distinguished Swedish botanist at the Upsala University, is visiting Feilding for the week-epd (reports a Press Association telegram) in company with Dr H. H. Allan (Feilding Agricultural High School). He proposes to examine Kitchener Park, which is of special interest to him as a lichenologist, as it contains examples of lichens growing on the loaves of forest trees, a phenomenon rarely see noutsido the tropics. lie also hopes to make an excursion to the Rua.hine Mountains to study the vegetation there, especially the rock lichens of the sub-alpine belt.