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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21543, 15 January 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr A. E. Ansell, M.P., was a passenger by the second express yesterday morning, en route for Wellington. Mr H. Turner left Dunedin yesterday morning by the second express on his way to Wellington. ~ . Mr J. Sutherland Ross and Mr James Evans left Dunedin yesterday morning for Auckland. , ~, , The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) left Dunedin by the second express yesterday morning on his return to Wellington. _ Messrs S. G. M'Dougall and G. A. Pearce left Dunedin by the second express yesterday morning for Christchurch _ to play in the Wilding Shield match against Canterbury. Dr Felicia Walmsley, of Musselburgh, who recently gained the diploma in public health of the University of London School of Hygiene, has been appointed assistant pathologist at the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton. The University Senate, at its annual meeting yesterday, approved of the recommendation of the medical faculty that the travelling scholarship should be awarded to Mr R. T. C. Fraser. Colonel J. Sclater, D. 5.0., traffic manager for Australia and New Zealand for the Canadian Pacific Railways, is on a business visit to the Dominion, Mr J. M. Hardcastle, associate-editor of the New Zealand Herald, Auckland, will shortly leave on an extended trip abroad. Sir Louis and Lady Barnett are returning to New Zealand on the Remuera, which is due at Wellington on January 24 from Southampton. Members of the Sanders Cup crew to represent Otago travelled by the second express yesterday morning, en route for Wellington. They were accompanied by Mr W. Hewitt, who will act as one of the delegates from Otago to the annual conference to be held in Wellington during the trials.- The other Otago delegate, Mr T. Anderson, will leave for Wellington on Saturday. At the annual meeting of the University Senate yesterday the chancellor (Professor J. Macmillan Brown) conferred the following de'grees;—Bachelor of arts, William Lancelot Holland (Canterbury University College); master of surgery (with distinction), John Maxwell Clarke (Otago University); bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery, Garth Rivers Stoneham (Otago University). In the list of successful candidates at the State examinations for general nurses, held in December, Misses Catherine J. Nolan and Ellen A. Rose (Southland Hospital) and Ngaio Z. Fulton and Winifred J. Gibson (Dunedin Hospital) passed with over 75 per cent. Representatives of the_ Otago and Southland Fire _ and Accident Underwriters’ Association met in the association rooms yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr A. Burn and Mr J. S. Hislop on the occasion of their retiring from the management of the local branches of the Alliance Assurance Company, Ltd., and the Norwich Union Insurance Society, Ltd., respectively. The chairman of the association Mr H. A. B. _ Brabant) , in handing to each a suitablyinscribed 400-day clock, expressed appreciation of their personal qualities, business integrity, and their services to underwriters, and his good wishes for their future happiness and welfare, ine remarks of the chairman were supplemented by other speakers.