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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21646, 17 May 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Minister of Agriculture (Mr C. E. Macmillan) will visit Dunedin next week for the purpose of opening the Winter Show of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society, which will be commenced on May 31. Sir Truby King left by the express yesterday on his way to Wellington. Mr J. Robertson left for the north by the express yesterday. , . Mr E. H. Lough travelled to Christchurch by the express yesterday., Mr J. A. Hargest, M.P. for Invercargill, passed through Dunedin on Sunday night on his way to Waimate. Advice has been received that Mr Denis Dowling, of Ranfurly, won the baritone sacred solo and baritone test at the Christchurch Competitions. Mr T. C. Ross was appointed, at last night’s meeting of the council of the Chamber of Commerce, to represent the chamber on the League of Nations Union (Dunedin branch). The Bledisloe landscape medal, for the best New Zealand landscape in the annual exhibition of the Auckland Society of Arts, has been awarded (says a Press Association telegram) to Mr Archibald F. Nicoll, of Christchurch, formerly principal of the Canterbury College School of Art, for a small work in oils entitled “ Ashley Downs.” At a meeting of the St. Kilda Borough Council last night it was reported that Cr Telfer was suffering from ill-health, and had been medically advised to rest for one month. ' The Rev. E. P. Blamires, of Devonport, Auckland, has left New Zealand by the Zealandia to represent the Methodist Church of the Dominion at the general conference in Australia. At a meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Burns Club, Messrs N. M Donald, A.-M‘Millan and J. Bowie were elected as the club’s delegates to the Council of Scottish Societies for the ensuing year.

At the meeting of the Dunedin Bowling Centre last evening, the president (Mr J. Allan) referred to the death of Mr D. C. Cameron, sen., who had been a prominent member of the St. Kilda Club for many years. A motion of sympathy with the relatives was carried, the members standing in silence. Sir Cecil Leys and Sir Alfred Bankart, of Auckland, left Wellington last eventing for the south. Dr E. F. D’Ath, professor of pathology at the Otago Medical School, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui from Sydney after an absence of six months abroad. ■ There died in Providence (U.S.A.), a few weeks ago Harry Cameron Clemens, nephew of Mark Twain, and an actor of 40 years’ experience. He was born in Ohio, his mother being Sarah Elizabeth Clemens. Mr Clemens made his stage debut in London, and in 1920 he was in Australia with J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in the caste of “ Welcome, Stranger.” He was 63 years of age at the time of his death. Mr R. M. Barrer, son of Mr and Mrs T. R. Barrer, of Renall street, Masterton, has been awarded the Post-graduate Travelling Scholarship in Science for 1932. Mr Barrer, who is an old Wairarapa High School boy, is at present attending Canterbury University College. He has seven scholarships to his credit. He has also achieved success at sport, and was one of the 1031 Rhodes Scholarship nominees. Mr Barter's name was recently forwarded by ■ the New Zealand Senate as one of the three New Zealand nominees for the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, which is the highest award for science. Mr Barrer hopes to enter Cambridge University in Oetqber of this year, and will probably leave New Zealand in August. , Should he not. go Cambridge, Mr Barrer will enter King’s College, London.