PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20451, 4 July 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Sir James Allen left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. Mr Forsyth Johnston left yesterday morning on a visit to Christchurch and Auckland. The Rev. Gardner Miller returned to Christchurch yesterday from Dunedin. Captain R. Clark, of the Union Steam Ship Company’s service, left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. Mr J. B. Waters (Dunedin) and Mr G. A. Lee (Auckland) members of the Timaru Harbour Board Commission, travelled yesterday from Dunedin to Timaru. Mr and Mrs A. G. Sherriff left by the express yesterday for the North Island, where they will spend a few weeks. Mr H. H. Sterling (general manager of the Railways Department) is expected to arrive in Dunedin early to-morrow morne retirement from the Bench as from July 31 is announced of Mr S. L. P. Free, stipendiary magistrate at Masterton. Miss Helen Hill, who has relinquished the position of chief cashier at Messrs 'Barton and Trengrove’s Manse street shop, and who is to be married shortly, was met by members of the staff and presented with a fumed oak dining room table, a jardinniere, and a pot plant. Mr 6. J. Barton, who made the presentation, also handed Miss Hill a substantial cheque. A Press Association telegram' states that advice has been received from the Baptist Conference, Toronto, that the degree of doctor of divinity has been conferred by the M'Master University on the Rev. J. J. North, principal of the New Zealand Baptist College. An apology from Mr Duncan Wright for absence was received at the meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery yesterday. The clerk (the Rev. J. Kilpatrick) stated that Mr Wright had had to go into hospital and had undergone a serious operation. He was very cheerful when he was seen on Monday evening. On the suggestion of Mr Kilpatrick it was decided to appoint the Rev. Dr Gumming and Mr T. R. Fleming to visit Mr Wright on behalf of the presbytery. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Mr Edward W. Lowe, who retired from the directorate of the New Zealand branch of the A.M.P. Society on Saturday last, and had just celebrated his diamond jubilee as an officer and director of the society, passed away yesterday morning. He leaves a son, Mr E. H. Lowe, and a daughter, Mrs Hart. Mr W. J. Wratt, collector of Customs in Christchurch for the past 16 years, has retired on superannuation. Mr Wratt joined the department in 1884 in Dunedin, and was transferred to Wellington six years later. In 1898 he took charge of the Customs Office in Nelson, and in 1903 he went to Dunedin. In 1912 he became collector _of Customs at Invercargill, from which town he went to Christchurch as collector.