PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Ministerial. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Industries, and Commerce, and Tourist and Publicity Departments (Mr P. A de la Parelle) will leave for Welnngton by the express this morning. The Minister, who is accompanied by his private secretary (Mr E. N. G. Toulton) was a guest of the Forbury Park Trotting Club at its meeting on Saturday. J? secretary of the Dunedin R.S.A., left on Saturday for a weeks holiday in Central Otago. nn^ Ir ir Wilsoa, °f Messrs Wilson ?°V ton 4, Dtd., Auckland, who attended the Empire Press Conference in Condon, returned fay the Aorangi yesterBishop Whyte left Dunedin on Saturday for Oamaru, where he conducted coubrmation services yesterday at St. Kevin’s at ■*-£ Bc^ema ' ier s Colleges. 4; Green, organising secretary tv ,1 0 a New . Zealand Horticultural Trades Association, ie at present on a business- visit to Dunedin. Messrs M. Dennehy, G, Anderson, H. PoT' 0 ’ a ? d V : J- Stanley, of the S?. 1 „ w ? y ApP ea j -Board, left Dunedin on Saturday morning for Wellington. The chairman (Mr J. G. L. Hewitt. S.M.) left on the previous evening, stiff « a , te o£ the teaching North School, left Invercaito TToi. tjhristchurch cm Friday, en route to Havelock (Marlborough), where be H?gh School! 3 P ° Sltion With the District ’i®’. senior inspector S Ai m 11113 completed his career in the public service. His retiredaev * n“ n BU P era nnuation dates from tohv y i l !« o nnU afcUl ' day i mo L l ' ning he W 33 nL h L c l e , aE , ues - al the education office pipes Ben d WiUl a case o£ Loewe • ? acr y i Haward, who recently renfgrelfr°« Centl ; al Electricity Board of Great Britain, atnved at Auckland fay tT? DRI y ? ste . on a holiday visit, 111 spend eight weeks in the Dob. TnoJ 3 • re if avln ß to visit relatives "’ a o a fonner comptloi®.of the London County Council 4 1 th | meeting of the Southland Edu®l“n. Board on Friday a motion of appreciation of the long and faithful eemce rendered by Miss Eleanor SouthDerg, who is retiring on superannuation, c a ® f , c , arried - From !894 to 1900 Miss Southberg was pupil teacher at Lower Shotoyer, from 1900 to 1902 she wS 1002 at i Upper Shotover, from rrtvi 10 r I9OO , slle " r as bead teacher at ? Rt i en ’ 19 £ 8 to 1914 9he wa s headteacher at Mossburn, and since 1914 she bas been assistant at Riverton. ? eV ' North, who has been to the pastorate of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, Christchurch, commenced his ministry yesterday. A public welcome meeting will be held in the church to-morrow, at which the Mayor (the Rev. J. K. Archer), Dr J. J. North, and other well-known ministers, will speak. Ihe Rev. Mr North is the younger son of .Dr C. North of Dunedin. °# th ®, late North, ®?\ T of tlle founders of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, and nephew of Dr J J North, principal of the Baptist College. Auckland. He was, until recently, minister of the, Mormngton Church, Dunedin. Before being trained for the ministry, TinnJ° r \ Qualified as a aolicitor in 2“?' adm ’. bnt relinquished that profesfnon to study at Knox College, Dunedin, CnP^ fte A W Tf 3 Ba PtW Training College, Auckland. He accepted the can Moriingtom rC aft6r a Ehort ministr y al