PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 14

PERSONAL.

Mr W. Fels returned to Dunedin "yesterday .afternoon from a visit to Wellington. Mr J. J. Clark returned to Dunedin yesterday morning from Invercargill. Mr A. B. L. Williamson left Dunedin yesterday morning on a visit to Christchurch. Mr G. E. Reed, who has been acting manager of the Dunedin office of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, left yesterday morning on his return to Wellington. Mr C. Stanley Smith and Mr W. Easton, who attended a meeting of directors of the United Press Association in Wellington, returned to Dunedin yesterday afternoon. Dr Stuart Moore and Mr J. C. Begg will leave this morning for Wellington, where they will attend the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., is at present on a brief visit to Port Chalmers, of which town he was Mayor a few years ago. Mr Platts was also a member of the Otago Harbour Board for several terms. Mr W. M'Hardy Forman, general man«ger of General Motors, Ltd., who visited Otago and Southland during the week on business connected with the affairs of his company, has returned to Wellington. Mr Arthur Gordon, of Christchurch, who studied the violin with the great master, Ysaye, at the Conservatoire Royalo, Brussels, will be heard in Dunedin this month at a recital in association with Dr V. E. Galway and Mt A. Walmsley. After 40 years of unbroken service, Mr Ernest Qodfred has retired from the position of chairman of the committee of the Port Chalmers Reading Room. As a mark of appreciation the committee has presented Mr Godfred' with a walking stick and a wallet, and he has been elected an honorary life member. Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s Office (states our London correspondent, writing on April 4) have included Miss A. H. Barnett, Dr Alice G. Rose, Dr P. Treahy, and Mr and Mrs J. D. Williams( Dunedin). Messrs W. F. Abel (headmaster of the Musselburgh School), A. H. Williamson (headmaster of the Kaikorai School), and J. P. Hawke (headmaster of the Balclutha School) left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington, to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Miss Muriel Reeves Palmer, of the Egypt General Mission and a member of the Field Council, is at present visiting the southern centres of the South Island, and will arrive in Dunedin shortly. Miss Palmer has spent 20 years in Egypt, and has a wide experience of Moslem life and Egyptian national aspirations. Dr R. S. J. Fitzgerald, of Oamaru, has been nominated by the Otago branch of the New Zealand British Medical Association to act as a' delegate, from New Zealand at the annual congress of the British Medical Association to be held this year at Winnipeg in' August. Dr Fitzgerald left New Zealand by the Tahiti on her last trip for San Francisco, and proposes to spend some months in America doing post-graduate work. Aftet holding the position of auditor for the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of P. >perty for the past 66 years, Mr Thomas Moodie, of Portobello, recently tendered his resignation. In a letter notifying Mr Moodie of the acceptance of his resignation, the factor (Mr A. M'Hutohon) conveys the board's appreciation of his faithful services oyer so long a period, probably constituting a record, and congratulates him on the manner in which he had carried out his duties. - Mr A. B, Lane, who has been appointed manager of the Press Association in succession to Mr W. H. Atack, commenced his journalistic career on the Timaru Herald, of which the late Mr G. Fitzgerald, one of the founders of the Prera Association, was then editor. He was later appointed to the reporting staff of the Southland Times, which he represented in the Parliamentary Press Gallery for two sessions. An appointment to the reporting staff of the Christchurch Press followed, and then came a year as sub-editor of the Southland Times. When the Sun newspaper started in Christchurch Mr Lane joined it as chief reporter, later becoming chief sub-editor. In 1918 he was appointed editor of the Christchurch Star, and after five years in that position became news editor of the Christchurch Times, a position which he now occupies. Dr Archibald H. MTndoe (formerly of Dunedin) arrived at Liverpool from New York on March 13, with Mrs MTndoe (states our London correspondent, writing \ April 4). They came from Rochester, Minnesota, where for the past six years Dr MTndoe hot held a fellowship in surgery in the Mayo Foundation and Mayo Clinic. Having been awarded the’James William White travelling scholarship in surgery, which enables him to visit various surgical clinics throughout the world, he has come to England. About three months will be spent in Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France, and at the beginning of June they will return to the Mayo Clinic, where Dr MTndoe has lately been appointed surgeon, and where lie expects to remain indefinitely.