PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr James Fletcher is at present on a business visit to Dunedin. -■ Mr and Mrs James Taylor, of Dunedin, are at present visiting Queenstown. Mr G, S. Kirby left Dunedin yesterday morning on a business visit to Wellington. Mr E. A. Cockroff, who has been visiting Dunedin, left yesterday morning on his return to Ashburton. Mr A. 0. Heany, secretary of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce, arrived in Dunedin yesterday afternoon from the north. Mr E, A. Sevier, general manager for the Vacuum Oil Company in New Zealand, left by yesterday’s express for the north, on his return to Wellington. Mr C. M. Gilray left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Education Research Council. Mr E. T. Porter, manager of the Union Bank in Dunedin for the past few years, left yesterday to take up his new appointment as manager at Wellington. ' Mr T. P. Laurenson, who acted as district manager of the local branch of the Government Insurance Department for several years and who was transferred to Auckland in July last, has been promoted to the position of supervisor in the head office at Wellington. In' reply to an influential deputation of citizens which approached him yesterday afternoon, Sir C. A. L. Treadwell, a prominent barrister and solicitor in Wellington, consented to contest the Wellington North seat in the interests of Reform at the next general election. The seats (states a Press Association message) is at present held by a Labour member, Mr 0. H. Chapman. A party of 20 boys in the charge of Mr G. R. Pitkethley, Boys’ Work Director, left yesterday morning for Timaru to represent the local Y.M.C.A. in a triangular contest with the Timaru and Christchurch Associations. The programme will include competitions in Rugby and Association football, basketball, table tennis, outdoor and indoor athletics, debates and oratorical contests.

Mr D, L. M'Kay has been appointed inspector of the Guardian Trust and Executive Company. Mr M‘Kay was for seven years assistant district public trustee in Auckland, and for the last six and a-half years has been district public trustee at New Plymouth. Mr Ralph Munn, a director of the Carnegie Corporation, Pittsburgh, who is making a survey of public and institutional libraries in New Zealand on behalf of the Carnegie Corporation, New York, arrived in Dunedin last night and is staying at the Grand. Hotel. He is accompanied by Mr John Barr, chief librarian to the Auckland City Council, who is assisting him in the preparation of his report. Dr J. S. Watt, a 1931 New 'Zealand Rhodes Scholar, who recently returned from England, has arrived at Palmerston North to take up the position of lecturer in soil chemistry at Massey Agricultural College. For three years Dr Watt was a student at Oxford University, where he last year gained the degree of doctor of philosophy. In 1929 he graduated B.Sc. at Auckland University College, and the following year M.Sc. He is a son of Mr and Mrs W. Watt, of Remuera, and is an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School.

Several competitors from Dunedin secured places at the Christchurch competitions on Tuesday. Miss Nana Newey was placed secomi in the Shakespearian recitation for women, and in the humorous recitation for girls, eight and under 12, Miss Meryle Swanson wa s first and Miss Sylvie Bean second. In the junior recitation for boys, eight and under 12, Master Bexmard Larsen was placed third (equal) with two other competitors. Miss Ethel Thomas, besides securing third place in the recitation for girls, 12 aud under 14, was mentioned among those competitors whose perfomances were highly commended in the song for girls between the same ages. Miss Daphne Morrison (Dunedin) won first place in the operatic dance for girls 10 and under 13, Miss Joyce Rowley's pertorraance being highly commended. The performance of Miss Fairlie Miller, of Oamaru, in the Highland fling for girls 10 aud under 15 was very highly commended. New Zealand is to lose one of the best-known figures in its theatre business by the departure of Mr Johrr Farrell, of Messrs J. C. Williamson, Ltd., for Australia within S' few days (says the New Zealand Observer). It is not yet certain that the transfer is to be permanent, but it is probable that it will be. It is 40 years since Mr Farrell came to New Zealand with Pollard’s opera company, playing the parts of the Mikado in the comic opera of that name and of the policeman in “ The Pirates of Penzance. After making one tour he settled down to the administrative side of theatrical work in Messrs J. (J. Williamson’s Melbourne office. He was at that time a fine racing cyclist and a keen cricketer.

It is reported from England that the death occurred recently of Mr W. S, Donne, who*was for over 30 years a member of the committee of the English Rugby Football Union. Mr Donne, who was 68 years of age, wa s the English Rugby Union’s president at the time when the 1924-25 New Zealand , Rugby team was in England. He had been closely associated with the Somerset County Rugby Union for many years, and was made a life member 'some 10 years agd. Mr S. S. Dean, manager of the 1024-25 All Blacks, on being advised of the death of Mr Donne, said that the deceased was a great friend to the team, the members of which came into touch with him a good deal durum the tour.

Mr 1. G. A. Harjc, senior sub-inspector in New Zealand of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, has been appointed to a position in the genera] manager’s office, Melbourne, and will leave Wellington with his family shortly. Mr Harle. who is a qualified accountant and holds the Diploma m Banking, was one of the Associated Bapks representatives who gave evidence before the Monetary Committee recently. .Ho was for some years in the inspector’s office, Wellington (from 1918 to 1927 as accountant). This wa s followed by six years and a-balf as manager at Ashburton, before be took up his present duties. Mr Harle has taken an active interest in acclimatisation affairs in New Zealand, particularly in connection with freshwater fish research and the question of trout hatching mortality and methods. Sir George Julius has been appointed chairman of the New South Wales Employment Trust, a public body which will be empowered to raise loans of up to £2,000,000 for the relief of unemployment in the State. Sir George, who is a son of Archbishop Julius, is keenly interested in industrial and social problems, and is well known in Australia as chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial TUseorr-h, and also ns president of tlv Australian National Research Cornu il Ill's a member of the firm of Ju'ius, Poo’e and Gibson, consulting engineers He graduated at Canterbury College, and subsequently joined the Western Australian Railways. He has been practising us a consulting engineer in Sydney since 1906. Captain R. G. Briscoe (Conservative), member of the British House of Commons

for Cambridgeshire, is visiting Dunedin, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Captain Briscoe has been member for Cambridgeshire for 11 years and from 1924 to 1929 he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Walter Guinness, now Lord Moyne). He is a director of Briscoe and Company, Limited, and his present trip is being made on business necessitated by the death of his father in Christchurch recently. On the same day the firm’s senior partner in Australia, Mr A. Macneil, was killed in a motor accident. Captain Briscoe has _ already spent three weeks in Australia and he will be in New Zealand for about six weeks, revisiting Australia for a month on his way back to England. He also intends to spend some time in India studying the constitutional problems which he regards as being of paramount importance in present-day British politics. To-morrow morning he will meet members of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce at the Savoy restaurant. Captain T. Bowling, wharf superintendent for the Union Steam Ship Company at Lyttelton, lias received notice of his transfer to the Wellington staff of the company in a similar capacity. • Captain Edge, of the Wellington staff, is under transfer to Lyttelton. Captain Bowling was born at sea, between New Zealand and Cape Horn, in the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s clipper ship Akaroa of which his father Captain T. Bowling, sen., was commander. He served his time in sail under the Shaw, Savill house flaa, and later served in tramp steamers in various parts of the world, including the steamers of the Lawther, Latta Line, and was later in the Tysep Line for seven years. Coming out to New Zealand, he joined the service of the Union Steam Ship Company in 1912 as third mate of the Flora. He served in most of the company’s fleet, and was appointed to his first command, the Kamona, in 1925. From the Kamona he was appointed to the shore staff of the company at Dunedin as assistant wharf superintendent. a position he held for • two years until his appointment to Lyttelton seven yeirs ago.

The Rev. John Hubbard, of Kelburn, has accepted a call to St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Palmerston North. Mr Hubbard was born in Waimate, South Canterbury, in 1900, and received Ins primary education at the Oamaru North School. From there he entered the Waitaki- Boys’ High School. He attended the University of Otago in 1918 and won the M'Gregor Prize in philosophy at the end of that year. In 1920 he gained the degree of bachelor of arts, and was awarded the Levin University Scholarship in mental and moral philosophy. In 1922 he received the master of arts degree with honours in philosophy. After completing his course at the University of Otago he entered the Theological Hall at Knox Col live as a student for the ministry. Each year while in the hall he was awarded the prize in homiletics. In 1925, he gained the degree of bachelor of divinity from th<> Me'bourne College of Divinity, being the first New Zealand student to win that degree wh ip st 11 a* tending college. Mr Hubba”d took a p-o-einent mart in the •oc : a! lif of th-’ coll'"?* h - atten ert and wa* assi'ta 't secretary of the Otago University Students’ Association. At Knox College he held office in the Students’ Club, and was president of the Divinity Students’ Association. At track athletics he attained distinction as a runner, and represented the University of Otago at the intercollegiate sports.