PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22022, 3 August 1933, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr T. Brook, valuer-general, arrived by the express from the north yesterday afternoon.

Mr George Miller, deputy-superintend-ent of the State Advances Department, is at present visiting Dunedin on departmental business.

Mr W. A. Bodkin, M.P. for Central Otago, left by the second express yesterday morning en route to Wellington. Mr W. F. Edmond was a passenger by the second express yesterday morning en route to Sydney. Mr George Black, who will embark at Wellington for Sydney, left by the second express yesterday morning. Dr P. A. Lindsay, of Auckland, arrived by the express yesterday afternoon to take part in the seventieth anniversary celebrations of the Otago Boys’ High School. , „ , At the meeting of the Otago Harbour Board yesterday, the opportunity was taken bv members to extend to the chairman (Mr H. C. Campbell) their hearty felicitations on the occasion of his sixtyfourth birthday. Sir Francis Bell, M.L.G., patron of the Otago Boys’ High School Seventieth Anniversary Association, arrived from Wellington yesterday afternoon to take part in the celebrations. Captain Saunders, who has been assistant officer at the Salvation Army headquarters in Dunedin for the past seven months, has been transferred to Westport'. He left by the express for the north yesterday to take up his new duties. At a meeting of the unemployed of the Anderson’s Bay and Tainui districts on Tuesday night a presentation of a Loewe pipe was made to Mr John H. Hssher as a mark of appreciation of the valuable services rendered in No. 6 depot. At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the New Zealand Society of Accountants the following were admitted to membership of the society:— Messrs E. K. Miller. T. H. Mulholland (Auckland). R. M. Gaustad, "S. M. Kinross, A. F. Taylor (Wellington), R. A. * Matnewson (Dunedin), J. A. Kenton (Invercargill). The gold medal awarded to Mr G. A. Duncan for his thesis on the accounts, finance, etc. of the dairy industry will be presented to him on August 2d. A Wellington Press Association .message states that Mr James Thorn, nationl secretary of the Labour Party, has consented to nomination as the Labour candidate for Thames next election. He is at present on an organising tour throughout the electorate. A Press Association cablegram from Sydney states that Most Worshipful Brother F. A, Maguire, C.M.G.. D. 5.0., V.D., was installed as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales of the Ancient Free, and Accepted Masons. ■ ■ J ■.; :, Mr J. Herbert, who has retired on superannuation after holding the position of assistant bailiff of the Magistrate’s Court for 27 years, was met in the Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon by representatives! of various legal firms in the city. On behalf of ‘.he legal fraternity Mr F. C, Dawson prevented Mr Herbert with a well-filled wallet. Mr Herbert was later met by the staffs of the Magistrate’s and Supreme Courts, who also presented him with a wallet.