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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21698, 16 July 1932, Page 12

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Mr' Carl Holier, of Ashburton, arrived in Dunedin last evening on a. short visit. Mr I. Woolf, South Island representative on the Development of Industries Committee, returned to Christchurch yesterday after a visit to Dunedin. Mr Justice Kennedy was a passenger for Oamaru by the early express for the north yesterday morning. Mr H. M. Rushworth, M.P. for the Bay of Islands, left for the south by. the morning express yesterday. He addressed a meeting at Mataura last night, and will speak in Invercargill to-night, returning north by the midnight express to-morrow. Dr James Fitzgerald has received notification that the Governor-General has reappointed him as a member of the Council of the University of Otago. Mr L. J. Berry, secretary of the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, who has been visiting Dunedin, will return to Wellington by to-day’s express. Mr H. Bringezu, of the Christchurch Post Office staff, has been transferred to the Dunedin Post Office. He took up his duties in the local mail room yesterday. •' Mr Wilfred Kershaw has been engaged by the Christchurch Choral Society for the title role of “ Caracfhcus ’’ (Sir Edward Elgar), which is to be presented at the Civic Theatre on Wednesday August 10. , , , Word has been received from London that Mr Alexander Frederick M'George, M.gc., 8.E., who went to England on an engineering travelling scholarship from Canterbury College, has passed ms A.M.LC.E. Jegrefe (civil). Mr MGeorge is a son of Mr and Mrs A-. C. M George of this city. ■ . Mr R. H. Nimmo, who resigned recently from the office of chieftain of the Wellington Caledonian Society, which- he has held for eight years, has been elected a me chieftain in recognition of his services. ■ He retains his position as chieftain or the Dominion Scottish and , Caledonian Federation. . , , „ News has been received of the success of . Dr. Archibald M'lndoe, a son of the late Mr John M’lndoe, of Dufiedm, in his preliminary and final examinations for the degree of F.R.C.S., which he passed simultaneously. Several hundred candidates sat for the degree and only 44 were successful. Dr M'lndoe is at present assistant to Sir Harold Gillies, the famous plastic surgeon, who is himself a native of Dunedin, being the son of Mr Robert Gillies, of the old firm of Gillies, Street, and Hislop. : ■ , , ’ , Dr Raymond Firth, formerly of Auckland, has resigned his position as acting professor of anthropology at the Sydney University, and has been appointed (says a Press Association telegram) lecturer m anthropology at the School of Economics,, University of London. Dr Firth, whq is a son of Mr W. H. B. Firth, of Otara, Otahuhu, graduated as an MA. from Auckland University College in 1923, and later went to London, where he took his doctor’s degree in philosophy. For over a year he did field work on the lonely island of Tikopia, in the Solomon Group, and since then has been on the staff of the Sydney University. He will take up his new appointment early next year.'