PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20705, 1 May 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Mr Peter Cameron travelled to Christchurch'by the 11,34 express yesterday. Mr A. L. Adamson, secretary of the Southland Chamber of Commerce, came to Dunedin by the express yesterday morning and returned to Invercargill in the evening. The appointment of Mr William Begg as Government nominee on the Otago Harbour Board is gazetted. At the annual meeting of St. John’s Church last evening the parish churchwarden (Mr J. Simpson) conveyed to Archdeacon W. A. R. Fitchett the sympathy of his parishioners in his'recent bereavement, the parishioners standing as a mark of respect to the memory of the dean.

Commissioner Hay, Brigadier Bladen, and Brigadier Scotney, who spent the week-end in Dunedin and subsequently visited Invercargill, were passengers by the through express ’ yesterday on thenway back to Wellington. Mr P. Herbert, who was chief detective in Dunedin for many years, will leave by the Manuka to-day on an extended visit to Melbourne and Adelaide.

Mr J. E. L. Cull, B.Sc. (England), designing engineer to the Public Works Department, Wellington (says a Press Association telegram), is to be offered the appointment of professor of civil engineering at Canterbury College. A Christchurch Press Association message states that the Canterbury College Board of Governors has unanimously decided that a brass tablet, suitably inscribed, should bo placed in the college hall to the memory of the late Alexander William Bickerton, professor emeritus of Canterbury College, and, that the ashes of the late professor, whfea have been forwarded from England, be deposited in the cavity behind the tablet. Writing on March 21 our London correspondent states that recent callers at the High Commissioner’s Office included Mr Frank Halefed, Mr W. H. Fitzgerald, Mrs M. B. H. Sinclair, and the Rev. and Mrs J. M. Simpson, all of Dunedin. Mr Adam MTntosh, of Caithness, Scotland, who has spent a week in Dunedin in the course of a holiday trip round the world, was a passenger for the north by the through express yesterday. After touring the northern districts of New Zealand he will proceed homewards via Sydney and Melbourne. Deans of the various faculties at Canterbury College have been appointed as follows:—Professor A. Wall, Dean of the Faculty of Arts; Dr H.- G. Denham, science; Professor S. Steele, engineering; Professor J. Shelley, mental, moral, and social sciences; Dr J. C. Bradshaw, music. It is announced from Christchurch that Dr Charles Chilton who, for 26 years, was a professor at Canterbury College and was rector from 1921 to 1928, has been appointed professor emeritus of the college in recognition of his services to the college. Dr Chilton has taken diplomas in biology and zoology, both in New Zealand and abroad. He-was_ formerly assistant master at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, tutor at the. Dunedin Training College, rector of the Port Chalmers District High School, and house surgeon at the ophthalmic ward of the Edinburgh Infirmary. He has been president of the New Zealand Institute and the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, he is a Fellow of the New Zealand University, and he was formerly a member of the Canterbury Education Board. Dr Chilton has always been interested in educational matters. He was one of the workers in the formation of the Workers’ Education Association and he represented Canterbury College and the Philosophical Institute at the first Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress r‘ Honolulu in 1920.