PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr G. R. Ritchie was a passenger for Timaru by the through express yesterday. Mr John Farrell, of Messrs J. C. Williamson, Ltd., returned from Invercargill last night. Mr P. Waite, M.L.C., was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr B. G. Bond, of Auckland, is at present on a business visit to Dunedin. Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., was a passenger for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday. Sergeant M'Carthy, of New Brighton, is at "present spending his annual leave in Dunedin. Mr James Taylor (Musselburgh) left by the mid-day express yesterday on a visit to Hanmer. An Otaki Press Association message states that Mr L. G. Lowry has been chosen as the official Labour candidate for the Otaki seat. Mr J. MacDonald, ex-assistant general manager of -railways, who has been spending a few days in Dunedin, left on his return to Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr J. Scott, of the firm of Messrs J. and A. P. Scott, was a passenger for the .north by the through express yesterday to England and America on a visit. • . Mr R. E. Biggs, grand president of the Canterbury United Ancient Order of Druids, arrived by yesterday's, expre'ss to attend the Grand Lodge meeting of the Otugo and Southland district, which will be opened at Mosgiel to-day. Mr James Purtell, a union secretary, has been nominated (reports a Press Association message) by a number of Auckland unions as the workers' delegate to attend the International Labour Conference at Geneva. Mr P. Shaw, warehouse manager of the Auckland branch of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen, has been appointed a director of that company.- Mr Shaw joined the firm of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen in 1903 at Dunedin (reports a Press Association telegram from Wellington), and with the of the war years, when he was overseas, spent the whole of his business career in the company's service. Mr Shaw was for several years manager of the Invercargill branch, from which he was transferred to Auckland as warehouse manager in 1930. Miss Martin and Mesdamea H. Guthrie and A. Lee'Smith, representatives of the Gardening Circle of the Otago Women's Club, have finished their judging of 15 of the gardens in the southern division of the railway station competition, and left, yesterday by the mid-day express to continue their judging at Fairlie and Orari. The friends and neighbours of Mr and Mrs Dundas Samuel, who tho oldest and most highly esteemed residents of Anderson's Bay, felicitated them this week on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. It is probable that no family in New Zealand suffered more severe losses in the war than that of Mr Samuel did, and the surviving members of it are so scattered that there could unfortunately be no family reunion on the auspicious occasion of Monday last. Dr H. Wilcox, who was ship's surgeon in the new Tasmanian steamer Taroona, which arrived recently at Melbourne on her maiden voyage from Great Britain, is on his way to his home in- New Zealand for a short holiday. Dr Wilcox, who was a member of Byrd's Antarctic Expedition in 1929-30, and was with Sir Wilfred Grenfell in Labrador, in 1931, has been engaged in postgraduate work in London. Upon his return to England he will enter the medical branch of the RoyalAir Force. At the opening session yesterday of the annual conference of the Federation of the New Zealand Justices' Associations the president (Mr A. Rosser) referred in his presidential address to the death during the year of Mr H. Trimble, for many years.a member of the Taranaki Association and a past-president of the federation. At the conclusion of Mr Rosser 'a remarks a motion of condolence was passed with the relatives of the deceased, the delegates standing in silence, and it was decided that a telegram conveying, appreciation of his services to the federation be forwarded to Mrs Trimble. The remains of Mr Charles John Thorn were laid to rest yesterday afternoon in the Southern Cemetery. Many relatives, old friends, and representatives of public bodies, commercial interests, and recreation societies attended the services at the home and the graveside. The Revs. B. J. James (Caversham Methodist minister), C. H. Olds (chairman of the Otago district of Methodism), and L. B. Neale (minister of the Central Mission) conducted the last rites. Many beautiful floral tributes bore evidence of the highest respect to the deceased, who had won the esteem of one and all in his many active spheres of useful community service. The Sons and Daughters of Temperance Lodge conducted a service at the graveside. As the cortege left the house members of the Caversham Ladies' Bowling Club lined up to pay their respects. Representatives of the following organisations wore present:—City Council (Deputy Mayor, Cr J. J. Marlow) Master Builders' Association (Messrs G. Glue and S. Cookson), Carpenters and Joiners' Association (Mr S. Hill), Trades and Labour Council, Sons and Daughters of Temperance, Good Templars, Port Chalmers Old Identities' Association, Caversham Methodist Church officers, Caversham Bowling Club (the vice-president, Mr A. Melville), Caversham School Committee, Undertakers' Association, Automobile Association of Otaao. Briscoe and Co., Ltd (Mr Bevan). M'Callum and Co.. Ltd. (Mr G. Waldie). Simpson and Thompson, Sievwright. James, and Nicol, and New Zealand Wax Vesta Companv, Ltd. (Mr F. W. Cleavin).