PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22432, 29 November 1934, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr Charles Todd left on his return to Wellington by the mid-day express yesMr Mark A. Toomey, Wellington branch manager of the Fox Film Corporation oi Australasia, is on a business visit to Dunedin. ~ , Mr A. H. Allen left by the mid-day express yesterday for Wellington, where he will attend a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr J. A. Hanan (pro-chancellor of the University of New Zealand) left for Wellington yesterday morning to attend a meeting of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. . Messrs D. H. C. Feathers of Roslyn, and S. A. Anderson, of Woodhaugh, left on Monday for Bluff to connect with the Maheno, en route to Melbourne and Sydney. . ~ , r Mr A. W. Gibson, managing director ot the New Zealand Investment Trust, Ltd., is in Dunedin, and is staying at the W'and Mr'Austin Cook, of the Union Steam Ship Company, who has been spending a short holiday in Dunedin, left by the north express yesterday morning, intending to .break the journey at, Timaru and Christchurch before returning to Welattached to the staff of the International Labour Organisation at. Geneva, is at present on a visit to Christchurch. It i» hoped that Dr Condliffe will be able to attend a meeting of the league ot Nations Union in Dunedin on December 51 or 12. , , „ , . The Rev R. L. Fursdon, of the bhackleton Road Baptist Church, Auckland, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Caversham Baptist Church and will commence his ministry at Caversham on March 1 next. Sir Fabian Ware, chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, who is now visiting the Dominion after attending the British Empire Service League Conference in Melbourne, is expected to reach Dunedin on December 18, and while here he will give a lantern lecture on the work of the commission. Confirmation'has been received by the secretary of the Dunedin Returned t>o!diers' Association (Mr 0. L. Ferens)of the news recently received that a visit would be paid to Dunedin by Sir Alexander Godley, who was General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces during the Great War. He is expected to arrive in Dunedin about the end of the first week in January. A farewell social was tendered by the Taieri Beach, Taieri Mouth, Akatore section of the Brighton charge to Mr and Mrs W. R. Bartle, who left on November 27 for Akaroa, where Mr Bartle has taken up his ministerial duties. Items were contributed by Mesdames Sinclair and Whelan and the Misses F. and M. Milne and Merrilees. Mr A. G. M'Kenzie, on behalf of the congregation, presented Mr Bartle with a roll of notes, Mrs Bart e with a salad bowl, and Master Bartle with a book. Dr Kenneth Pacey, second son of Mr and Mrs H. E. Pacey, of Kelburn, Wellington, has qualified for the I.R.C.S. degree in London. Dr Pacey graduated from the University of Otago in 1929. He was on the staff of the Wellington Hospital in the following year, and was awarded the New Zealand Obstetrical Society's travelling scholarship in 1931, in pursuance of which he visited Melbourne and London. He obtained his M.D. degree in Melbourne in 1931 and M.C.O.G. in London at the beginning of this year. He is at present resident surgical officer at the Royal Masonic Hospital, Loudon, and expects to return to New Zealand early next year. Mr F. W. Marris, acting-inspector of the Bank of New South Wales in New Zealand, who recently resumed duty after a long illness, has decided to retire at the end of December on account of illhealth. Mr Marris has been 45 years in the service of ihe bank, which (says our Wellington correspondent) he joined in 1889 at Westport, and he has served practically the whol of his banking career in New Zealand. His first appointment as manager was to the Thames branch of the Bank of New South Wales in 1904, and he was successively manager at Gore, Palmerston North, Hastings, and Dunedin. In 1928 Mr Marris was transferred from Dunedin to Wellington as assistant-inspector dining the absence in England of Mr R. C. Addison. Mr A. H. B. Jones, formerly manager of, the Christchurch branch of the bank, who has been acting as assistant-inspector at Wellington, has been appointed assistantinspector in succession to Mr Marris.