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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22284, 9 June 1934, Page 12

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—,— ♦ Vice-Regal. An Auckland Press Association message states that Lord and Lady Bledisloe will return to Wellington on June 16, after three months' residence in Auckland. Prior to going south, they will spend a few days quietly at Mount Maunganui. They will return to Auckland shortly before Christmas to be in residence during the stay of the Duke of Gloucester, who will be their guest at Government House. Mr T. Golden, chairman of the Southland Hospital Board, was at the statutory annual meeting of the board on Thursday re-elected to the position. Mr Golden was also appointed the board's representative on the Waipiata Sanatorium Committee.

When the members of the Dunedin Stock Exchange met yesterday for the morning call-over, the chairman (Mr Harraan Reeves) referred to the death which had occurred the previous evening of Mr A. Gilchrist, a member of the Exchange. Several members expressed their sympathy with the relatives, and the Exchange was closed for the morning as a mark of respect. '•

An unusual tribute to the respect and esteem in which the late Mr E. J. Mears, solicitor, of Hamilton, who died on Thursday, was held was paid by a representative gathering of barristers and solicitors at the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Fair yesterday morning. Mr F. A. Swarbrick, president of the Hamilton Law Society, characterised the deceased as one of the most honoured of their colleagues, a modest, unassuming man, whose outstanding virtues raised him to the highest reputation as a solicitor and citizen. ~■.■■'

Members of the reporting and editorial staffs of the Otago Daily Times met yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr Donald H. Cameron, who, after 43 years' association with the literary side of the paper, has retired from the service of the company. Presenting Mr Cameron; oh behalf of those present, with an antique brass and crystal fruit stand, the editor (Mr J. Hutchison) said he had been\ forestalled by two of the mostimportant local bodies in the city—the City Council and the Otago Harbour Board—both of which had expressed their acknowledgment of Mr Cameron's services in reporting, their proceedings. Mr Hutchison went on to say that be had been associated with Mr Cameron over a great number of years. They had entered the journalistic profession about the same time as members of the staff of the Evening Herald, and later had joined the Otago Daily Times, on which Mr Cameron remained until he was appointed to the staff of Hansard, an appointment which in itself constituted a tribute to his painstaking accuracy as a reporter. He was always accurate, he had always carried out his-worth faithfully, uncomplainingly and well, and no one could ever complain of being misreported by him. Indeed, for many years past he had been recognised as & model of what a reporter should be, Mr Cameion's departure after between 40 and 50 years' comradeship in journalism came to him, (the speaker) as a personal wrench, and he,was sure they would all join with him in expressing the sitscerest hope that Mr Cameron would live long to enjoy the rest he bad so well earned. Mr Cameron expressed thanks for the gift'and for the tribute paid him, and recalled that in the early days referred to by Mr Hutchison he had been associated on the Evening Herald with the poet, Thomas Bracken, and bad .reported men who had, become famous in the history of the province and of New Zealand, among them being Sir Julius Vogel, Sir George Grey, and Mr James Macandrew. His relations with the reporting staff had always been of the happiest nature, and, in leaving, be felt that he was parting from many whom he could now look on aa personal friends.