PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21640, 10 May 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr D. T. Fleming left Dunedin yesterday morning for Balclutha. Mr A. C. Hanlon travelled by yesterday morning’s express from Dunedin to Invercargill. Miss Dorothy Sligo, of Dunedin, was placed first in the operatic soprano solo at the Christchurch Competition Society s festival last night. • Mr Eric G. Hassell, formerly on the relieving teaching staff in the Canterbury district, has received an appointment as assistant master at the Tuatapere School, in Southland. Dr Elaine Gurr. daughter of Mr Norman L. Gurr, of Takahue, and niece of Mr Tasman J. C. Gurr. of Napier, has been appointed to the honorary medical staff of the Auckland Hospital. She is the first woman practitioner to be appointed to that position. Mr G. 0. Sutton, secretary of the New Zealand Golf Association, has been appointed by the Golf Council as manager of the New Zealand team which is to defend the Kirk-Windeyer Cup against New South Wales Mid Victoria this season. A well-known resident of Portobcllo (Mr Thomas Moodie) will enter to-day upon his ninety-seventh year. Mr Moodie arrived at Port Chalmers in the ship Jura on September 23, 1858. At the monthly meeting of the Port Chalmers Borough Council last evening it was decided to send letters of condolence to the relatives of Messrs W. Thompson, R. Anderson, R. Peters, and Mrs 0. Brown, the motion being passed in the usual manner. _ Messrs J. G. Jeffery, R. Duncan, E. Sheed, J. M'lndoe, C. Baker, J. Hogg, W. D. Lambert T. Coull, F. W. Cleann, J. Allen. C. A. Wilson, W. Stevenson* and J. B. ghacklock, members of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association,' travelled to Invercargill yesterday to deliver addresses in the Southland city.