PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 12

PERSONAL.

Mr Justice Smith will arrive in Dunedin on Monday to preside at the quarterly session of the Supreme Court, commencing on Tuesday. A United Service cablegram from Vancouver records.,the death of Mr Edward Alexander Haggen, a mining engineer. He was born in Dunedin and educated at Otago University, He went to Canada in 1897. On Monday afternoon, at St. Dominic’s College, the Reverend Mother Prioress, on behalf of the nuns, made a presentation to Miss Florence Hayward in recognition, of her timely rescue of a boy from drowning in the Leith. Out of six candidates, whose names were submitted to the ballot for the presidency of the Amalgamated Society of Railways Servants, Mr Janies L. Churchouse, of Carterton, was elected by a majority of 553 over his nearest opponent. . r The Roard of Trinity College of Music, London, has appointed Dr D. Vaughan Thomas as examiner for the practical examinations for the South Island, New Zealand, this year. Dr Thomas was educate d_ at Llandovery School and Exeter College, Oxford, of which university he is a master of arts (graduating m the Honour School of .Mathematics) and a Doctor of Music. He has had a very wide experience as an adjudicator at the principal musical competition festivals of Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States of America. As specialist inspector in music to the Central Welsh Board he has issued a report for the Board of Education on the teaching of music in the secondary schools of Wales. Dr Thomas is well taown as a lectuer, orchestral, and choral conductor. The death occurred with tragic suddenness m Napier on April 18 of Mrs r C , onstan ce Wilson, wife of Mr C Sln W ii SOn ’ Fra ? ce road > Napier, and a well known resident of the town. The deceased lady, prior to her marriage! was a member of the teaching staff S o f the Napier Girls’ High School, of which her sister. Miss V. M. Greig, wal for Sy? p , nnci P al - Mrs Wilson had throughout her residence at Napiergained for herself a wide circl e P of ofTe?/ n ?i ad “ irers > to whom the news WhHe Wll as a great sll oek, while the deceased lady was devoted' tn her home life, B he had a host of friers Tl. 10S V orrow will be the greater that death should claim at such an early age one so highly endowed with suchmanifoldgiftsandcharm sheis wmvrf by h e r Inland and „