PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22269, 23 May 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL

*. Ministerial. The Minister of Finance (Mr J. G. Coates) and party arrived at Timaru last night from Hokitika (says a Press Association telegram), and will proceed to Queenstown to-day.' The Rev. D. C. Herron left for Wellington' yesterday to attend a meeting of the Advisory Board of the Presbyterian Church. , , Dr Doris Gordon left.by tram yesterday morning, returning to Hawera. Mr R. B. Tennent, director of the fields division of the Agricultural Department, went north, en route to Wellington yesterda|)r B. R. Harty has gone to Auckland on business. . ' Mr A. G. Hill, of she Tourist Bureau, left yesterday morning for Auckland. > Mr A. T. Grandisoh, of the Labour Department, was a passenger for Auckland bv the express yesterday. • Mr J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., was a passenger for Invercargill by yesterday afternoon’s express. • . . Mr L. D: Woolf returned from, Christchurch on Monday. . ~ , A large gathering of friends assembled at the Railway Station yesterday morning to bid farewell to Mr Edinburgh MacGregor, who has been transferred to Elizabeth Blake, of Wellington, passed through Dunedin yesterday afternoon ou her way to Invercargill, where she will take part in an effort to form a branch of the British Drama League. She will return to Dunedin to-morrow, and will act as judge at the local branch 3 festival. ... ,; , VT Mr A. I. W. Wood, chairman of the No. 9 Transport Licensing Authority, will leave for Wellington by the second express to-day. Mr F. G. Hall-Jones, chairman of the No. 10 Authority, will travel from Invercargill by the same train, Mr R. Moffatt; manager of the Dunedin branch of the National Bank, will leave for Wellington on May 30 to take up his new position in the general manager s office there. Mr I. S. Cantrell, who succeeds Mr Moffatt in Dunedin, arrived from the north on Sunday last. At the Christchurch Competitions on Monday the recitation for girls 10 years and under 12 provided a distinct success for Dunedin competitors. Miss Sylvie Bean (Dunedin) was placed first. Miss Meryle Swanson (Dunedin) third, and Miss Marjorie Rhodes (Dunedin) was recalled but did uot appear. Miss Gwynneth Watson (Dunedin) was very highly commended. Miss Alva Myers (Kaitangata) secured first place for the song in character, and Mr Fred Taplm (Bunedin) obtained a similar award for tne men’s English song. In the humorous character sketch Miss Nanna Aew Y (Dunedin) was placed second. Miss Daphne Morrison (Dunedin) was very highly commended for her performance in the skipping dance, any age. At last night’s session Miss Alva Myers vv awarded the vocal scholarship for ladies and Miss Meryle Swanson was placed second in the character recitation, eight 6 JIr Douaid Cameron, who will retire from the reporting staff of the Otago Daily Times at the end of tins month, was accorded a farewell by the Otago University Council at its nl ° nthl A r " w ins yesterday. The chancellor Mr V. J Morrell) said that it was the last occasion on which Mr Cameron would report a meeting of the council. . had had a loiw career of sen ice, not merely to his paper, but to the general public through his connection with Hansard staff The chancellor was certain that 111 members were grateful to Mr Cameron for the excellence of his reports, and he expressed their Mrtrest= tn him for- happiness and prosperity in hi retirement. The members expressed their approval said he had first reported the University Council when Mr James Macandrew was * member. His connection with the council as a reporter consequently extended over a long history of the proV *Dr C. B. Gibbon, of Calcutta, has renlaccd Dr S. N. Sinha on the Narbada, which arrived at Dunedin yesterday from Eastern ports, while Dr Sinha is on annul] leave at Calcutta. Dr Gibbon possesses a remarkable record of military and medical service, and his travels have taken him round the world. He was in France in 1914, and .is one of the Old Contemptibles,” wearing the rosette the British Victory, and Allied medals, as well as the volunteer decoration and the I'ong military service medal. He entered the war as a member of the first contingent from India, and was slightly wounded. After the war he was still in military service in India, and went to the Hills. Later he set up as a general medical practitioner in Allahabad. Then he became a railway medical officer and a planters doctor, making a special study of tropical diseases, including plague, cholera, and smallpox. After some years in Calcutta he went to sea in the British In ua line, and has just completed five years seai experience. This is his first visit to . New Zealand.