PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20385, 17 April 1928, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Ministerial. Mr F. J. Rolleston (Minister of Defence) will arrive in Dunedin to-morrow, and will proceed to Roxburgh on. Thursday to he prosent at the opening of the Roxburgh railway extension. Mr F. J. Beer arrived in Dunedin by the first express from tho north yesterday. Mr J. S. Lucy will leave this morning by the first express for Christchurch. Mr J. R. Marks was a passenger by the early meruing express yesterday, .n route to Wellington. . Mr D. A. J. Rutherford, superintendent of schools for Samoa, will leave, for the north by tho first express to-day. Mr L. M. Ritchie left Dunedin by the through express yesterday on his way to Kaetihi. „ „, _, Mr A. Smellio and Mr W. Thomson loft Dunedin for Wellington yesterday to attend the annual conferene of the Commercial* Travellers' Association. Messrs S. F. Brent, A. C. Stephens, A. Duncan and H; L. Cook have returned <o Dunedin after attending tho legal conference in Christchurch last week. Mr W. Taylor, general manager of tiie New Zealand Drug Company, left Dunedin yesterday on his way to Auckland. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter. A Press Association telegram from Auckland announc«s tho death of Mr James Buttle, aged 76. He was formerly general manager of tho New Zealand Insurance Raymond, who has been on a visit to Gore and liwercargill, passed through Dunedin by the express yesterday on his way back to Timaru Messrs J. M. Dickson, F Waitc, J.R. Hamilton, and, A. Hamilton, traveled north by the through express yesterday for the purpose of attending a caucus ot the' Reform Party in Wellington to-day. Messrs J. Robinson. W. Herbert, and T y O'Bynie went north by the through express yesterday" for the purpose of attending the adjourned national industrial conference, the sittings of which will be, resumed in Wellington to-morrow. Mr Hugh G. Croll, an old Wellington College boy, and son of Mr and Mrs A C. Croll, of Wellington, has just been appointed a on the New York Times. Mr Croll has been in America for seven years, during which, time he has been music and art critic on the Cleveland Times, and has also been attached to the literary staff of the York Evening Post and. Daily'News, ■■■•; The membors of the Anderson's Bay Ratepayers' Association met yesterday to tender to one of their number, Mr J- R. Dickison, congratulations on hia recent marriage. On behalf of those present, the chairman, Mr T. Somerville, presented' Mr Dickison with a set of crystal, and extended to him and to Mrs Dickison best wishes for the future. Mr Dickison suitably responded. Mr S. M. Barclay, who has been headmaster of the Kelso School for the past three years, left on Friday last for Dutitroon, where he has been appointed headmaster. Prior to his departure, tho children met in the school to bid farewell to Mr Barclay, and on behalf of the scholars. Miss Jessie Stuart presented him with a handsome Jacdbean clock, Mrs Barclay being made the recipient of a. silver butter dish and knife. During the afternoon, a musical programme was rendered by the children, and the gathering concluded with the singing of "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows." It is expected that an early announcement will bo made regarding the appointment of a now Under-Secretary of External Affairs in succession to Mr J. D. Gray, who retired at the end of March. The Prime Minister was asked yesterday (reports our special correspondent in Wellington) whether it was a fact that Mr C. A. Berendsen, Imperial affairs officer in tho Prime Minister's department, was being appointed to succeed Mr Gray. Mr Berendcon, it will be recalled, _ was formerly deputy registrar of industrial unions and chief clerk cf the Labour Department, and was appointed to the Prime Minister's department upon its organisation in 1926. Mr Coate-s replied that he had nothing to report regarding the Under-Secretaryship of External Affairs beyond the fact that a cennin amount of reorganisation was going on in connection with that department. Mr W. Nosworthy i 3 Minister of External Affairs. Mr David Martin, M'lntyre, one of tho early pioneers, died in Christchurch on Thursday at the age of 93 years. He arrived in Melbourne in 1860, by the ship Detriot, and was in Ballarat and Bendigo in the wild days of the famous gold rush. He came to Dunedin in 1861, and from here participated in the Gabriel's Gully rush. After living in Dunedin for some vears. he joined in still another gold rush —that to the Thamos field Ho then became a member of the Auckland Stock Exchange for 11 years, and wns managing director of several companies; he also managed the Wahu and Black Ang»l Gold Mines. His partner for three years as artock an J sharebroker was Baron James de Ilirsch, of Austria. He made a trip to England and Scotland in 1879. and later joined" tho late Mr C. W. Jackson as a runho'der in tho Wyndham Valley, Southland, and resided there fpr 13 years. Mr M'lntyre was a highly cultured man. gifted with a sDirit of public service, and he- served for many vears as clmirmnn of school committees and local bodies in Otago and Southland. Mr J. D: Mnrtin M'lntyre, of Wellington, is a son of deceased.