PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20286, 20 December 1927, Page 10

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Prime Minister (Mr J. G. Coates) had a busy day in Auckland yesterday, receiving private callers and deputations. He lunched with members of the Officers’ Club, and at night met the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr L. S. Amery) on his arrival from Rotorua. Mr Coates will be engaged with Mr Amery up the time the Aorangi sails for Vancouver, and this evening he will return to Wellington by the limited express. He will come north again on Thursday night with Mrs Coates and family to spend Christmas at his home at Matakohe. Mr Coates will spend some weeks in the north, his engagements including a visit to the Waipoua Forest, tire road through which is to be opened on January 20. Mr Albert Peacock Alloo was yesterday admitted by Mr Justice Sim as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Now Zealand. Sir James Allen and Mr C. R. Allen arrived yesterday from Wellington by the late express. Mr J. Hislop, Secretary of the Internal Affaire Department, arrived in Dunedin by the first express yesterday on private business. Mr J. C. Murray, manager for the Vacuum Oil Company at Dunedin, will leave to-morrow on a business visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr E. T. Norris, registrar of the New Zealand University, left Dunedin yesterday morning for the north. Mr H. T. Redding has been appointed a director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency. Mr T. Anderson, Mayor of Port Chalmers, left Dunedin yesterday morning on a holiday visit to Rotorua and Auckland. He expects to return about the second week in January. _ Mr W. M. Luke, travelling representative for the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, is visiting Dunedin. Mrs M. M. Westland, of Milburn, whose death occurred in Dunedin on the 10th inst., after a very brief illness, was a daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Williamson, two of the earliest settlers in the Tokomairiro district. She was a member of the first choir formed in the Milburn Presbyterian Church, and anti] recent years took an active part in church work. Besides doing a vast amount of sewing on behalf of the soldiers on active service, she held the position of secretary for the Milburn branch of the Red Cross Society during the war. The lady is survived by her husband, Mr F. Westland, of Milbum, and an infant daughter, and by two brothers, Mr Peter Williamson, of Milburn, and Mr John Williamson, of the North Island.

The High Schools Board of Governors has made the following appointments to the Girls’ High School:—Miss M. W. May, M.A., to a grade C position; Miss S. D. Bagley, to a grade C position; Miss P. J. Sutton, B.Sc., to a grade D position. Mr N. E. W. Barclay has been appointed to the teaching staff of the Boys’ High School. A Sydney message announces the death of Mr J. S. Mollison, formerly of the New Zealand Public Works Department, mainly in Dunedin, aged 73. The arrivals by the Tahiti (says a Wellington Press Association telegram) include Dr Miles Barnett (the new physicist to the Research Department) and Mr A. Gibbs (the chief telegraph engineer), who has returned after attending the radio conference, on which ho will report officially.

Two very old members of the Trinity Church Choir, Mr W. C. Calvorlcy, who has been in the choir for 53 years, and Mr J. P. Lane, who has served 43 years, were honoured at a supper after choir practice on Thursday evening last. The Rev. 11. E. Bellhouse presented each with an illuminated address, and Mr E. A. Rosovcar, one of the trustees, also made a few remarks. Both speakers remarked on the fine example set by the two veterans in remaining with the choir so continuously. A Gisborne Press Association telegram states that advice has been received of the death at Tauranga of Mr Hugh Joseph Finn, a barrister of Gisborne, who represented Wakatipu in Parliament from 1879 to 1881, and with Mr C. A. de Latour, of Gisborne, was the only surviving member of Parliament during the Sir John Hall Government.

A Nelson Press Association telegram announces the death of Senior Sergeant T. Barrett, who was previously stationed at Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and the West Const. The deceased had been in ill-health for the past 18 months, but resumed duty on Monday of last week. He was due to retire from the Police Force in March next.