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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21988, 24 June 1933, Page 12

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Mr Arthur A. Hume, A.R.C.Sc., 1., N.D.H.(N.Z.), late of the Department of Agriculture, Invercargill, has arranged to-leave for Australia shortly. Mr G. Adese left Dunedin yesterday morning on a business visit to Auckland. Mr George Cos, of Christchurch, arrived by the second express yesterday m order to be present at the English Trophy Association football match between Otago and Canterbury to-day. The executive of the Red Cross Society and Order of St. John passed a resolution on Wednesday expressing regret at the resignation of Dr Colquhoun, Red Cross Commissioner in London, and delegate to the Council of the League of Red Cross Societies, and placed on record its warm appreciation of Dr Colquhoun’s services. The Rev. T. Miller, secretary of the Bible Society of Otago and Southland, has received a communication from' the Rev. Dr Kilgour,' who recently retired after holding the office of literary editor of the British and Foreign Bible Society for 20 years, in which he expresses his appreciation of the generous message conveyed in a letter from the board of the Otago Society under date March 6. Dr Kilgour, states that it was very gratifying to learn that his efforts at headquarters had received such recognition from his friends overseas. Dr Kilgour also states that immediately after his retirement fro;n the Bible Society he was offered and accepted the position of chaplain to the Scots Guards and other Scottish regiments in London. The Rev. S. Yareoe Codks, one of Australia’s leading Youth Work directors, vice-president of the World’s Christian Endeavour Union, deputy-president of the National Christian Endeavour Union of Australia and New Zealand, and Youth Director of the Methodist Church of New South Wales, will arrive in New Zealand shortly in the interests of youth work. He will tour the Dominion for a period of three weeks. While in Dunedin he will address various gatherings, including the students of Knox College and the different Christian Endeavour societies and (if it can be arranged) all the ministers of the various denominations. His reputation is such that his visit is regarded as the greatest opportunity for Christian Endeavour in New Zealand since the visit of the founder, the Rev. Dr Clark, in 1904. At the monthly meeting of the Taieri Fruitgrowers’ Association in Kinmont Hall, East Taieri, the vice-president (Mr R. Dowie), on behalf of his fellow-rnem-bera, presented Mr A. M'Donald (the retiring secretary) with a set of hair brushes in recognition of his valued services, to the association during his long term in office. Other members spoke in appreciative terms of his work. It was stated that it was largely due to the efforts of Mr M'Donald that the association, which had proved of considerable benefit to the growers of the district, had been forrhed 17 years ago and he had occupied the office of secretary and treasurer since. Mr M'Donald suitably replied. r Mr T. Vernon Griffiths has been, appointed conductor of the Dunedin Orchestral Society, in place of Mr ■A. Walmsley, who has resigned. Mr Griffiths was organist and choirmaster of Pembroke College, Cambridge,-from 1919 to 1922. He obtained the degrees of M.A. and Mus.Bac. at, Cambridge, and from there went to Downside School as senior music master. From 1923 to 1926 he was senior music master, Organist, and choirmaster at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, England. At both of these public schools he organised orchestras. He came to New Zealand in 1927, and was appointed lecturer in music at the Christchurch Training College, where he organised the Training College music classes, in which many hundreds of boys and girls received their first training in the playing of orchestral instruments. At various times Mr Griffiths conducted the Royal Christ-* church Musical Society, the University Orchestral Society and the Savage Club Orchestra, He was organist and choirmaster at St._ Michael’s Church, where several of his compositions for the church service were regularly performed. Last year Mr Griffiths accepted a position on the staff of the King Edward Technical College (Dunedin). He is honorary editor of Music in New Zealand. He has composed music for the church, several songs, and a number of works for juvenile orchestras and other musical combinations.