PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21599, 21 March 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr J. A. Johnstone was a passenger by the express on Saturday morning en route to Wellington. if Mr J. A. Haggitt left by the express on Saturday on a visit to Auckland. Mr James Hogg was a passenger by the express on Saturday en route to WelIU S?0. J.- Wilson left for Christchurch by the express on Saturday morning. Mr Alexander Sinclair left by the express on Saturday morning on a visit to Wellington. Mr L. J. Stevens left by_ the express on Saturday morning on his return to Auckland. . , ~ Mr E. E. Collier was elected to the board of directors of the Provident Life Assurance Company at the annual meeting of the company on Friday. , The Rev. E. 0. Blamires, the wellknown ex-Otago cricketer, now of Masterton, has accepted an invitation to become superintendent of the Fending Methodist Circuit as from next month. < Dr W. D. Bathgate will leave Dunedin to-morrow morning by the express, en route to Auckland. He is returning to Palestine, via London, going as ship’s surgeon on the s.s. Taranaki. A British Official Wireless message from Rugby states that the Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay MacDonald) has appointed Sir Horace Wilson, the Government’s chief industrial adviser, to be one of the representatives of his Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of the_ Imperial Economic Committde, in succession to Sir Sydney Chapman, who resigned on his appointment as a member ot the Import Duties Advisory Committee. Mr C. H. Faggc, vice-president of the Royal College ot Surgeons, England, and senior surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London, who came to the Dominion to attend the conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, left by the express on Saturday morning on his return to England. The Railways Department has announced the following promotions in the Dunedin traffic district:—Mr T. Stewart, acting passenger foreman, Dunedin, to passenger foreman, Dunedin; Messrs F. Barltrop, acting yard foreman, Dunedin, and W. M. Tuck, yard foreman, Invercargill to yard foremen, Dunedin; Guard F, C. Dunne, Dunedin, to goods foreman, Oamaru; Mr E. F. Kavanagh, acting ticket inspector, Dunedin, to ticket inspector, Dunedin; Guard D. Watt, Dunedin, to passenger foreman, Dunedin. Cabled advice of the death of his father, Mr John Miller of Glasgow, has been received by the Rev; D. Gardner Miller, of Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch, the contributor of a weekly article to the Otago Daily Times. Mr Miller died in his seventy-third year, while on his way home after posting a newspaper to his son in New Zealand. He was a quiet home-lover and had taken no part in public affairs. His widow is now seriously ill. There is a family of six, of whom Mr Gardner Miller is the only one residing in New Zealand.