PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20905, 20 December 1929, Page 12

PERSONAL.

Mr Justice MacGregor (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) will be leaving in February on a trip to England. . Mr J. A. Robinson travelled by the second express for the north yesterday, on route to Melbourne, via Sydney, Mr Peter Barr left yesterday niorning en route to Sydney. Mr A. Murdoch, jun., of Wellington, was a passenger for the north yesterday morning. Mr E. E. Blomfield travelled by the second express yesterday for Timaru. Mr A. Wells was a through passenger yesterday from Invercargill to Auckland. Mr P. S. K. Macassey. (Crown solicitor in Wellington), accompanied by his wife and daughter,. will arrive in DuncJm on Tuesday, and will spend their Christmas holidays here. A member of the Melbourne Stock Exchange, Mr E. Morgan, who was a passenger on the Manuka when she was wrecked, was present at a meeting of the Dunedin Stock Exchange yesterday. A Press Association message from Gisborne states that Colonel P. Clennell Fenwick, C.M.G., of Christchucrh, has been appointed by Lord Baden Powell Dominion Chief Gommisisoner of the Boy ocouts, in succession to General Andrew, according to cable advice received by Mr Jxirk, chairman of the Dominion Council. Two residential scholarships of the annual value of £6O a year for three years tenable at the Sacred Heart College. Auckland, have (says a Press Association telegram) been won by Thomas Konaue, of the Convent School, Uorven, Uanterbury, and John O'Regan, of the Marist Brothers* School, Greymouth Iherc were eight candidates from all parts of New Zealand. ■ F Holgate, inspector of schools m the federated Malay States, and formerly of Dunedin, is visiting the citv. Me was a passenger on the ill-fated Manuka, Mr Holgate. accompanied by Mrs Holgate and child, have been in England on a holiday, the remainder of which tliey are spending here. v,.^ r . Donaldson, of Christchurch, District Governor of Rotary in New Zealand, is at present on a tour of the North island centres in which the movement id established. A few days ago Mr Ronaldson met the Gisborne Rotary Club at luneneon. and discussed organisation business. He went south, after his visit to Gisborne, and will meet Napier ahl Hastings Rotarians before returning to fils home in Christchurch for the Christmas season. After the New Year he wPI complete his tour of visits, which will incbjde seven centres in the North Island and two in the South Island. Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Viscountess Graigar -n iV j. e in Wellington on January 3 from Rotorua, and will leave that night for Christchurch. On January 4 they will leave for the Southern Alps, and will return to Christchurch on- January 9. The two following days will be spent in Dunedin, after which they will proceed °° , a , tour ,°f the southern district, which will last from January 13 to 19. Lord and Lady Craigavon will be at the Hermitage from January 20 to 23. and they will return to Wellington on January 25. proceeding subsequently to the WairaReturning to Wellington on January 29, they will leave.for Home by the Kangitata on February 1. Unable to leave Australia in time to attend the funeral, two relatives of Bishop Cleary Mr Robert Cleary, of Melbourne, a brother, and Mr John Cleary, a nephew, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara on Monday. They received news of the bishops death on December 9, but the Nla Kara was the first boat available. Immediately on their arrival they visited the little cemetery at Panmure where the bishop is buried, and stood in silence beside his grave. Mr Robert Cleary is a produce merchant who has lived in Austraha for nearly SO years. He saw very little'of his brother since their school days together, but he was the only member of the family near enough to attend the runeral, and is deeply concerned that he was unable to be present. Mr John Cleary is following in his uncle's footsteps, and is in training for the priesthood at the Corpus Chnsti College, Melbourne.

M m C ! larl 5 8 Todd returned to Dunedin on Wednesday night from a prolonged trip abroad, in the course of which he visited the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, and Austria. 0? his arrival in Wellington this week Mr Todd was entertained to tea by the Standing Committtee of the New Zealand Alliance, and gave an interesting account of his travels. His keen interest in the liquor problem had led him to examine closely the conditions in the different countries, and he was struck with the poverty and degradation evident, particularly in the poorer quarters of the great cities in Great Britain, where, he said, the ravages of the liquor traffic were painfully obvious, and with the absence of drunkenness and the obvious prosperity of the workers in the United States. He had had opportunity of securing information at first hand, and whilst there was still a certain amount of drinking in the United States, he was satisfied that the conditions were improving from year to year, and there seemed no doubt that the prohibition law would achieve a lasting triumph. In a personal interview with Mr Henry Ford, he had received from

that great motor magnate the most emEhatic endorsement in favour of the proibition law. _ He-had not been impressed favourably with the so-called Government control in Canada, and he was' still as firmly convinced as ever that the abolition of the liquor traffic was the soundest solution of tue problem, and he expressed his intention ot continuing to do everything he could in the interests of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr Todd’s past services on behalf of the prohibition cause were fittingly emphasised by Mr F. C Spratt, chairman of the Standing Committee, who, on behalf of the New Zealand Alliance, teridered him a most hearty welcome on his return.