PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL

Captain Hilton, marine superintendent' for Canadian National Steamships, left for Auckland by the express yesterday. Mr P. N. Rundle, manager of the Vacuum Oil Company, was a passenger by the mid-day express yesterday for Wellington. Mr H, Buck, general manager in New Zealand for Messrs Lysaght and Co., was a passenger for Wellington by the midday express yesterday. Judge Gilfedder, of the Native Land Court, accompanied by his associate, Mr J. H. Grace, will leave for Invercargill this morning to attend the sittings of the court in that centre. Mr 0. Hutchinson, of Timaru, South Island manager for .the Colonial Motor Company, Ltd., New Zealand distributors for Ford Motors, is at present in Dunedin. Appreciation of the worth of the late Mr David Bacon, of Broad Bay, as a citizen was expressed at the meeting ot the Peninsula County Council yesterday, •and a motion of sympathy with his daughters was passed. The Rev. H. Raymond Turner, who will supply the pulpit at the Mornington Baptist Church for the next three months, has just completed a refresher course at the Baptist College, Auckland. Mr lurner’s former charges have been Owaka, Sandringham (Auckland), and Oxford (Canterbury). . ■ . . Prominent in banking circles in .London, Mr D. G. Davidson, general manager of the Anglo-South American Bank, arrived in Wellington on Tuesday from England, via Australia,’by the Ulimaroa. In his early days Mr Davidson was connected with the old New Zealand Colonial Bank, and has not been in New Zealand for many years. He is purely on a holiday visit, and before returning to England will proceed to Vancouver, British It is authoritatively stated that »tr W. Angland, ex-Mayor of Timaru, will contest the Timaru seat as an Independent or an Independent Liberal, thus making a four-cornered contest between Labour (Mr Clyde Carr, M.P.), Reform (Mr H. N, Armstrong), United (candidate to be selected), and an Independent. The choice of a United Party candidate appears to lie between Mr Herbert Hall and Mr A. Kennedy, the Deputy Mayor. There was a large gathering ot cor* poration tramway, employees iutue social hall, at the Tram Sheds on Wednesday night to bid farewell to Messrs J. Campbell and H. Hammond, who have retired after six years’ service. During the evening a fairly lengthy toast list was honoured, and a programme of vocal and instrumental*) terns was provided. Mr <l. M'Tigue. on behalf of the employees, presented Mr Campbell with two travelling rugs and a wristlet watch, and handed to Mr Hammond a tet of pipes and a tobacco pouch. ' Messrs Campbell and Hammond, who. will leave shortly for a trip to England, returned thanks for the gifts. The Rev C. W Foreman, who has been in charge of the Nascby parish for some vears, was met recently by a large number of friends and members of his congrcgation, who wished to bid him farewell before he departed to take up his new duties in the Waikouaiti district. Appreciation of his services to the district was expressed by several speakers, and Mr Foreman was presented with an envelope of notes from the Naseby and Wedderburn parish, a wallet of notes, from the Waipiata members of, his congregation, a wallet from the Naseby Lawn Tennis Club, a leather suit case and chinaware from the Oturehua members, and a leather-bound copy of the new Anglican Hymnal from the staff and scholars of the Naseby Anglican Sunday School. Mr Foreman briefly returned thanks for the gifts.