PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20789, 7 August 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL

V Mr A. E. Ansel!, M.P.. left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. Mr J. McC. l Dickson travelled by yesterday’s express from Dunedin to Timaru. Mr H. Henderson left Dunedin yesterday morning on a business visit to Timaru. ■* ■■ Mr_ Daniel Stewart, who had been ou a visit to Dunedin, left yesterday morning on his return to Nelson., j A Press Association- telegram from Palmerston North states that Air, John Watt Deem. who is fields superintendent for the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne, and Taranaki districts, has been appointed director of the fields division in succession to Mr -A. H. Cockayne. Mr Harold G.-Bell, who-h,as been chief reporter for the New Zealand Herald (Auckland) for some years, has been appointed associate-editor of the Dominion (Wellington) as from September Mr James Begg. of Dunedin, rind Mr D. Marshall,- of Invercargill, left yesterday morning for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Board of Agriculture. , The death 1 occurred suddenly, at Arthur’s Pass on Saturday evening of. Mr Cyril James Ashley, shift, clerk in the Railways Department at ' Addington. Death - followed a seizure. Air Ashley was formerly station master at Alexandra, being transferred from Central Otago to Addington in 1925 after a year’s stay there. He was •36 years cf age, and had been in the employ of the Railways Department for 18 years. At the meeting of the committee of the - Patients and Prisoners’',Aid Society yesn terday appreciative reference was ma'de to the ‘ valuable services which had been rendered to’the t so6iety by the late Mr, J. AI. Gallaway over a period of several years. It. was decided that a- letter of sympathy be sent to Mrs Gallaway, Sir William Marris, a graduate of Canterbury College, lately Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudli, and now a member of the India Council, has recently been appointed principal of the Armstrong College at Newcastle, in succession tjo Sir Theodore Alorison. Armstrong College is a division of the Uni-' yersity of Durham, and was established in ,1871 as a college of physical science. It lias established a fine reputation for training and research in engineering and pure and applied sciences. Sir George Fenwick • intimated at the meeting of the committee of the Patients and Prisoners’ Aid Society yesterday that fie was no longer acting-chairman of-the. society. 'He stated that Air Rosevear, Air Gumming and he had interviewed Air Justice,: Kennedy, who had taken .up, his duties' m : the Otrigo-.ldistrict, arid.‘his Honor had kindly agreed to accept the nosition of president. The chairman (Air Rosevear) stated that Sir George. Fenwick would now be the senior vicepresident. - > ,