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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 10

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Vice-Regal. The Governor-General (Lord Bledisloej and Lady Bledisloe will leave Wellington to-night for Christchurch (saya a Press Association telegram), where they will undertake a series of public engagements. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington at the end of next week. Ministerial The Prime Minister (M r G- W. Forbes) expects to leave Wellington' this evening on a visit to Christchurch. He will visit his farm at Cheviot, and will probably make arrangements for the rebuilding of his house, which was burned to the ground a fortnight ago. Mr Forbes will transact some official business in Christchurch, and will return to Wellington by the ferry steamer on Monday night.

Mr G. A. Goughian and Mr J. Young left Dunedin yesterday on a business visit to Christchurch. Bishop Whyte travelled by yesterday’s express from Dunedin to Oamaru to attend the annual sports meeting of St. Kevin’s College." Mr A. C. Mathieson was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr F. Shackloek left for Christchurch by the second express yesterday. Miss Martin (chairwoman), Mesdames E. F, Duthie and A. Lee Smith, members of the Gardening Circle of the Otago Women’s Club, who are acting as judges in the Dunedin section of the railway gardens competition, left Dunedin by the mid-day express yesterday to judge the gardens at Fairlie and Orari. Mr Oscar Garden, of Christchurch, who in 1930 flew from England to Australia in 18 days, is now engaged in commercial flying in Jerusalem. A Press Association cablegram from London states that Mr Algernon Borthwick, a nephew of Lord Whitburgh, is affianced to Miss Katherine Ormond, of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. Mr Justice Kennedy will leave for Invercargill on Saturday to preside over the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court, which will be opened on Monday. A recommendation has been made by the Commerce Faculty of the Otago University that the prizes given annually by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce be awarded as follows: —Junior, A. L. Stenhouse; intermediate. J. F. Lang; senior,. J. E. Falconer.

Mr L. H. Frude, for many years associated with advertising and sales promotion in Dunedin, has now been appointed to the staff of Messrs J. Inglis Wright, Limited, advertising agents, Dunedin, Wellington, and Auckland, and will have his headquarters at the Dunedin office of the company. Mr W. E. Anderson has been appointed secretary and treasurer of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Federation in succession to the late Mr S. E. Wright. Mr Anderson, who was born in Dunedin,' is a son of Mr G. J. Anderson, the former Minister of Labour. He saw active service during the war, and on his return home he was with the Repatriation Department in Auckland for a year. In 1921 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Federation.

The mother of the Empire’s greatest scientist, Mrs James Rutherford, celebrated her ninety-first birthday at her home at New Plymouth on Monday. She is the mother of 12 children, of whom one is Lord Rutherford of Nelson. She is as active as she was 40 years ago. She is a lover of method and a close follower of national and world affairs in the daily paper and by mail. She is an exemplary correspondent. There is an intimate motherly touch in the way Mrs Rutherford has followed every step of her distinguished son since the time of his winning the Tinline Scholarship for Nelson College in 1885, an achievement which placed him in the first niche of the great career he carved out for himself. Lord Rutherford went abroad in 1891, but in the fortnightly letters to hi.' l mother, carefully preserved, every step ‘n his scientific discoveries can be followed. There is sufficient material in these documents for an intimate biographical study of the great man. There was a quiet gathering at Mrs Rutherford’s home on Monday to celebrate the anniversary. Archdeacon Emeritus F. G. Evans spoke in happy vein of the celebrations that would mark Mrs Rutherford’s hundredth birthday, for, he said, she was so well that there seemed to be no reason why she should not reach the century. Eight of the family of twelve are still alive.