PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21265, 20 February 1931, Page 10

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Minister of Public Works (Mr W. B. Taverner) left by the express yesterday morning en route to Wellington.

Mr E. L. Macassey left for Timaru by the express yesterday morning. Mr Justice Ostler is expected to return to Dunedin to-night from Invercargill. Lord and Lady Baden-Powell were passengers by the Rangitata, which arrived at Auckland yesterday. Captain Post, who was a frequent visitor to Dunedin during the Great War in the capacity of Government transport officer, is at present visiting Port Chalmers.

The Bishop of Melanesia (Bishop Molyneux) passed through Dunedin yesterday on his way from Oamaru to Gore and Invercargill. He will return here on Tuesday. Mr John MTntyre, of the Napier office of the Lands Department, has been transferred to Dunedin, pending the reopening of the departmental offices in the Hawke’s Bay centre. He took up his new duties yesterday., having only just recovered from the effects of being caught in the Lands Office when it collapsed. At the meeting of the Otago Education Board yesterday morning, reference was made to the retirement of Miss 6. C. MTherson, infant mistress at the Arthur Street School. Appreciation of her excellent work in the past was expressed by members of the board, and the senior inspector (Mr A. Bain) described her as one of the' best teachers in the district.

The funeral of the late Detective P. Herbert took place yesterday. A requiem mass was celebrated in St. Joseph’s Cathedral at SWclock by the Rev. Father Gavin. The cortege, which was a long one, including members of the police force of the - Dunedin district, left the Cathedral at 10 o’clock for the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery. The pallbearers were members of the Holy Name Society and the Dunedin Hibernian Social and Debating Club. After the annual general meeting of shareholders of the / United Press Association of New Zealand, Ltd., held at Rotorua yesterday, the board of direc--tors met (saya our special correspondent), and unanimously elected Mr A. M. Burns (general manager of the Christchurch Press Company, Ltd) chairman of the board for the ensuing year. The other members of the board are Mr Henry Horton (New Zealand Herald, Auckland), Sir. Cecil Leys (New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd., Auckland), Messrs L. P. Blundell (Evening Post, Wellington), W. Easton (Otago Daily Times, Dunedin), C. Stanley Smith (Evening Star, Dunedin), E. Abbey Jones (Southland Daily News, Invercargill), and T. C. List (Taranaki Daily News, New Plymouth). The honour conferred on Mr Burns is particularly interesting from the fact that he entered the service of the Press Association as a cadet in the Wellington office, and was a member of the staff at Wellington and at the cable station near Nelson for 17 years before he joined the staff of the Press, Christchurch, as chief sub-editor.