PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20904, 19 December 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General and Lady Alice Fereusson arrived in Timaru yesterday on their farewell visit (says a Press Association telegram). Unfortunately, the weather was unpropitious, but this did not prevent thousands attending the farewell gathering at Caroline Bay. The function was also attended by large contingents or school children, Scouts, Girl Guides, and military unite. In the evening their Excellencies were entertained by a representative gathering of citizens. To-day they will inspect the schools and public institutions. Ministerial. The Minister of Railways (Mr W. B. Taverner) left for Wellington by the 11.35 tram yesterday. He will attend a Cabinet meeting to-day. An obituary notice published on Tuesday referred to the death at Charlton on Friday of Mr James Hargest. The deceased’s name was Mr John Hargest. Mr Norman Nairn, who has considerable business interests in the Near East, will leave Dunedin by motor this morning for the north. He will leave New Zealand early in January on bis way to Beyrout, where he proposes to develop an air-transport service to supplement the present road service between Damascus and Bagdad. The staff of the Macandrew Road School is this year being depleted by the resignation of no fewer than seven teachers. Of these Miss Dorothy Groves and Miss Milanea K. Wills have completed their terms as probationers; Miss M. J. M'Neur and Miss Amy A. Searl, their probationary. assistantahips; Mr L. M. Milne and Mr A, C. Baird, their respective terms as relieving teachers; and Miss Emma Grocott. who resigned on account of her approaching marriage. In order to afford an opportunity of bidding farewell to these teachers, the teaching staff assembled on Tuesday afternoon at the Hydro Tea Rooms, St. Clair. During the afternoon Mr John Bowie, the headmaster, expressed his own and his fellowteachers’ appreciation of the good work performed during the year by the departing members of the staff, and presented to Miss Grocott a beautiful crystal salad bowl as a token of the appreciation and the good wishes of the staff. His remarks were endorsed by Mr Arthur Robinson, first assistant. Miss Grocott suitably replied. A tribute to the memory of Mr Maurice Priest was paid by the president (Mr T D. Kesteven) at a meeting of the Canterbury Rowing Association on Tuesday evening. The speaker said that Mr Priest had been one of the Dominion’s foremost rowing enthusiasts and the backbone of the sport in Otago for many years. He had been four times winner or the New Zealand Double Sculls, and had filled the office of president of the New Zealand Rowing Association, as well as of the Otago Association, and he would be greatly missed in rowing circles.