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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr H. Hart was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr A. H. Allen, accompanied by Mrs Allen, were passengers by the first express for the north yesterday morning, en route to Great Britain via Panama. Among those who were present to see them off were the Mayor (the Rev. B. T. Cox), several city councillors, and representatives of various local bodies. Mr Crosby Morris returned to Dunedin from Christchurch by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr J. MacArthur arrived in Dunedin from Christchurch by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr H. L. Gibson, district traffic manager of railways, returned to Dunedin from Timaru by yesterday afternoon’s express. Mr F. J. Williams left on a visit to Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr B. Falck, of Christchurch, returned south by the mid-day express yesterday. Mr W. T. Hazlett, who returned to New Zealand from Australia by the Monowai, arrived in Dunedin on Tuesday night and went on to Invercargill yesterday morning. Mr J. E. Greenhalgh, managing director of Messrs Greenhalgh, Ltd., Sydney, went north by the mid-day express yesterday. *,. The Rev. I. Lionel Richards, vicar of St. Michael’s, Anderson’s Bay, has been appointed to the cure of the parish of All Saints’, Invercargill, in succession to the Rev. K. D. Andrews-Baxter. Mr H. M. Mackay, who is at present in Invercargill, will leave that town in company with Mr C. P. Ulm in the Faith of Australia for Cromwell to-morrow morning. The regard in which the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr G. M'Namara, is held was shpwn by an attendance of, some 300 officers of the department who assembled in Wellington' yesterday to wish him well on the eve of his departure as the delegate of the New Zealand Government to the International Postal Union Conference, which is to be opened at Cairo early in February. Mr M'Namara will leave by the Monowai tomorrow. During his absence (says a Press Association telegram) Mr J. Robertson, first-assistant secretary, will act as head of the department.

Considerable public interest was evidenced in the wedding yesterday afternoon at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, of Mary, only daughter of Mr and Mrs C. E. Richardson, Selwyn terrace, and Edward, eldest son of Mr and Mrs L. B. Benson, of London. The bride (says a Press Association telegram) is a granddaughter of Mr Edward Richardson, M.L.C., and the bridegroom is an international cricketer who visited New Zealand a few years ago with the M.C.C. team. At a meeting of directors of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, Ltd., held at the company’s head office on Tuesday, Mr J. S. Hislop presented to the chairman, Sir John Roberts, Kt., C.M.6., the silver plate, consisting of two entree dishes and tray,‘ given by the shareholders of the company at the diamond jubilee annual meeting on November 14. The plate bears the following inscription:— “Presented to Sir John Roberts, Kt.B., C.M.G., by the shareholders of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, Ltd., in appreciation of the valuable services rendered by him as chairman of directors for 60 years from the inception of the company in 1873.” Expressing his appreciation of the gift, Sir John presented to the directors an enlarged portrait of himself, which has now been placed in a prominent position in the board room?