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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21163, 22 October 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Vice-regal. Their Excellencies Lord and Rady Bledislpe arrived at Hastings by the mail train on Monday evening (states a Press Association message), and were greeted by a large crowd at the station. The High School cadets formed the guard ot honour, which his Excellency inspectgd; and ppoke tp one or t\yo pf the boys. Later their' Excellencies were motored to Mr Godfrey Pharazyu’s residence, where they will stay 'during’their visit to Hastings. Yesterday morning their Excellencies visited the soldiers? memorial, the hospital, the free kindercarfen, the High School, and fhe Women’s Rest, and in the afternoon they were officially welcomed at Cornwall Park, whilst last evening a social was held in the Assembly Hall.

Dr C. E. North was a passenger for Auckland by ■'the through express 1 yesterday. ' . i F as yesterday appointed by the Univprsity Coupoil as assistant Bfol ° ne * n the Department of Mr R. Nichol was a passenger for Wellington by the midday express yesterday, i Hi TFing left for Wellington by the through express yesterday, Mr -Alfred Wa]msley returned yesterday frpm after fulfilling ’an engagement with the Royal Wellington Choral Union. • ■ ’' " Mr John Dunlop, a member of tjie Dairy Produce Board, was a passenger from the south by the through express yesterday on his way to Wellington. Messrs H. Harris and T. Somervilje passengers by tl|e through express yespertlay tor Wellington, where they will attend a meeting ot the council of the New Zealand Master Printers’' Federation. Mr W. A. Opwan (Dunedin), who has b£on gwafded a post-graduate scholarship m arts, arrived in London gt'the‘beginning p£ this week (states our correspondent, writing on September 6), and inteuds to stuuy classics for two years at University College, London University. The funeral of thp Rev. j l . W. Newbold, who died on Sunday' morning, was c S n dHpted Jjy the Rev. A.' Cl Lawry. A short service was held in the St. Kilda Methodist Church, at which the district chairman (the Rev. H. E. Bellhopse) gnd Brigadier J. brother pf the deceased, delivered brief addresses. The Rpys.. J. A. Lophore, G, pigment, and W. A, Sinclair also took part. The interment took place at the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery, the pall-bearers being the Revs. H. Daniel, W. Ryan, J. Richards, G. B. Hinton, W. H. Hockipg. and Athol Penp. Representative Dunedin Business men and clergy of the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches were present at the service in the church. '

Professor W. P. Gpwjand,. professor of anatomy at the Otago University, ’ wild has beep absent on a 15 months’ tour of America and Europe, returned to Dunedin py yesterday afternoon’s express. Professor Gowland attended the Physiological Congress at Boston in Augpst, 1920, and the International Anatorpipal Congress at Amsterdam duripg August of t)iis year. During Ms lour Professor Gpwland visited the anatomical departments of a number of famous universities, and while in Madrid met Professor Cajal and Professor del Rip Hof toga, both of whom are world-famous anatomists- He was accompanied by Mrs Gpwe. During the absence of Professor land the work of the Anatomical Department of the Otago University has been carried on by Dr A. Durw'arfi apd Dr J. 0. Mercer. On the arrival of the express Professor Gowland was accorded an enthusiastic welcome by a large body of students assembled on the platform. As he stepped from the carriage he was greeted with showers of rice and confetti, whilst a haka was.- dapeeq., He was then carried shoulder high to a somewhat dilapidated njotor car outside, the drag ropes of which were manned by students, and in this manner was taken up Stuart street, down Princes street, and so to the Medical School, where Professor Gowland briefly addressed the students.