PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 14

PERSONAL.

Ministerial. hour Cabinet Ministers were in Foildmg yesterday (says a Press Association telegram). The Munster of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. G. Cobbc) and the Mimster of Education (Mr H. Atmore) attended the loung Farmers’ Club show, ihe Minister of Defence (Mr T M Wilford) arrived by train and later left by aeropJane for Dannevirke. The Minister .of Health (Mr A, J. Stallworthy) arrived in the evening, and will spend the weekend in the town. The Rev. J. Erskinc Niehol arrived in Dunedin on Thursday evening from Christchurch. Mr Justice Herdraan and Mr A. G. Cooper, of the Prisons Board, arrived in Dunedin on Thursday night., Mr R. G. Brophy -left Wellington by the Makura for San Francisco on Tuesday. The appointment is gazetted (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) of Captain John S. G. Fraser, D. 5.0., R.N., to be honorary aide-de-camp to the Governor-General. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that among the appointments in the public setvice gazetted. last night is that of Mr H. E. Walshe as Surveyor-general for the purposes of the Land Act.

Mr J, Binsted, first assistant locomotive engineer, North Island railways, will leave Auckland shortly for Christchurch, where he will take over the position of acting locomotive engineer for the South Island. According to a Press Association telegram, a Gazette notice anounces the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long service medal to ‘Major W. C. I. Sumner, of the Hauraki Regiment. At the annual meeting of the Gaelic Society of New Zealand last evening, Mr William H. M’Leod was re-elected chief. Messrs -Roderick M'Kenzie, Thomas Ritchie, J. S. M'Peak, R, M'Lean, and H. M'Kinnon were elected chieftains. On April 18 the members of the Ranfurly Presbyterian Church choir met at a happy social evening in the manse to bid farewell to Miss Evelyn Hall. During the evening Mr J. Crutchley thanked Miss Hall for her faithful services to the church as organist and choirmistress. On behalf of the choir he asked her to accept, as a token of their appreciation, a silver-mounted scent spray. Mr H. MacGregor Kirk has been appointed'manager of the Dunedin branch of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Ltd'. Mr Kirk is a son of Mr J. R. Kirk, of Gisborne, and an old boy of the Waitaki Boys’ High School. Official information has been received from the Associated Board of the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music, London, that the first prize for singing has been awarded to. Mias Constance Flamank, of Timaru. Miss Flamank gained the highest marks in the singing examination for licentiates, and receives a cash prize of £25. . • - At the monthly meeting of the Otago Hospital Board yesterday, intimation was received that Mr A. F. Quelch had been elected unopposed as the representative of the Taieri County and Mosgiel Borough on the board. The chairman (Mr W. E. S. Knight) said that the ratepayers of the district evidently recognised that Mr Quelch bad given excellent service to the board, and he heartily congratulated him on bis re-election. The death last week of Mr Henry Beattie, of Middlemarcb, at the early age of 22, created a deep feeling of regret in the country districts where he was well known as a good judge of stock. He was in the employ of Messrs Donald Reid and Co., and recently, when returning home, met with a motor accident at Milton, through which he suffered injuries so serious as to necessitate his removal to the Dunedin Hospital, where his death occurred. He was a keen sportsman, being specially interested’in football, and was a general favourite with the farming community. A large number of persons followed his remains to their resting place in the Middlemarcb Cemetery. The Rev. J. A. Lochore, who has been transferred by the Methodist Conference from Pctone to the South Dunedin charge, was for four years the representative of Petouc on the Wellington Hospital Board. At the latest meeting of the Pctone Borough Council, the Mayor, Mr D. MTvenzie, said that Mr Lochore had been a wonderful worker for those in distress and. for the unemployed, and he would move that the council place on record its high appreciation of Mr Lochore’s services as Hospital Board representative, and that a letter of appreciation of his work for the community generally be sent to him. Cr Cummings seconded the motion, which was supported by Crs Longman and Scholcfiekl, and. carried unanimously.

Rotarian Sir Alexander Roberts, Wellington District Governor of Rotary, asked the members of the Welington Rotary Club at tlneir luncheon on Tuesday to join with him in wishing a very pleasant journey to District Governor-elect C. J. Ronaldson, who is leaving shortly for Dallas, United States of America; to take part in the Rotary Convention there. Approval was signified by loud applause, and Rotarian Ronaldson briefly and suitably responded. Mr Arthur G. Cate, who has held the position of General Manager for Xew Zealand of the Vacuum Oil Company Pty. ; Ltd., for the past 13 years, will leavt shortly for Australia to take up a position on the Head Office Executive Staff in Melbourne. Mr E. A. Sevier, Assistant General Manager, will succeed Mr Gate a» General Manager for Xew Zealand. Mr C. Chambers, Wellington Branch Man tger, has been appointed Assistant to the Genera] Manager for Xew Zealand, and Mr F. J. Hanron, Assistant Wellington Branch Manager, will succeed Mr Chambers in charge of the Wellington Branch, Mr D. Colqnhonn, officer in charge of the Department of Industries and Commerce in Christchurch, has been appointed advisory accountant at the liea ' office in Wellington, in which position he will succeed Mr G. W. Clinkard, who was recently appointed secretary to the Samoan Administration. Mr C ’qnhouu’s successor in Christchurch has not yet b-ocn appointed. Mr F. Johnson, officer in charge of the department at Dunedin, has received an oppointment as advisory accountant in succession to Mr L. J. Schmitt, who is now the employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court. The newly-appointed magistrate, Mr W. H. Woodward, has been selected (says a

Press Association telegram from Wellington) to exercise jurisdiction in the Children’s Courts at Arrowtown, Campbelltown, Invercargill, Lumsden, Orepuki, Otautau, Queenstown, Riverton, Winton, and Wyndham. A, son of the late Mr William Woodward, M.A., of Mahgero, and of Mis Woodward, who’ is still resident in Auckland, Mr W. H. Woodward was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College, where lie took his LL.B. degree. In 1914 he went to'Samoa as a member of the Expeditionary ■ Force, and was appointed registrar and acting-judge of the German District Court until 1917. Later he served in France as a machine gunner, and after the war was appointed Commissioneor of the High .Court in the mandated territory of Western Samoa. In 1923 he became Chief Judge of the High Court at Apia. Mr Woodward returned to Vueklaud on furlough about two mouths ago. At the conclusion of the Otago Harbour Board meeting last night the chairman (Mr H. E. Moller) said that that was the final meeting of the board- as at present constituted, and they were losing their old friends, Messrs Cable and Hayward, as they were not standing for rcelection.—Mr Loudon: And Larnach andLoudon. Mr Moller went on to say that he did not think the mortality would be as heavy as that. As regarded Mr Cable, he had been a very excellent member of the board, and his experience as an engineer had been very valuable. He was sure that members regretted very much that Mr Cable was not seeking re-election. He took it that it was because Mr Cable was not able to get about as well as he used to.—Mr Cable: Nothing of : the sort. Mr Hayward was a new member, said Mr Moller, and they also regretted that he was not seeking re-election. They bad had a number of city councillors on the board, and be might say, as chairman, that he had looked kind of sideways at councillors being on the board. Mr Munro: Why? Mr Moller said it was perhaps a feeling that councillors could not see the point of view of the board when the two bodies came into conflict. He would like to" say, however, that he bad found in the present circumstances that the councillors on the board had always looked after the interests of the board. He would also like to add that any feeling which might be created at the board meetings was always dissipated when they ended. Mr Cable, who was received with applause, said he thanked the chairman for the nice things he had said about him. He had been a member of the board for thepast 10 years. The first eight years had been - very pleasant, but the remaining two had not been so pleasant. Taking his tenure all round, however, he had had quite an enjoyable time as a member of the board. Mr Hayward also returned thanks for the remarks made by the chairman, and said if he was spared he would probably be a candidate again for a seat on the hoard.