PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr D. Tannock left by motor car for Timaru yesterday morning. Mr Downie Stewart returned from the north yesterday afternoon.

Mr j. Z. Lindley was a passenger for the north by the through express yesterday.

Mr H. W. Piper, of Wellington, the new business supervisor of the A.M.P. Society, returned north by the through express yesterday. Mr C. E. R. Webber will leave by the north express to-day for Auckland to connect with the Niagara for Sydney and Brisbane.

Mr J. W. M'Millan, Mayor of Stratford, who has been paying a visit to his home town, returned north by the mid-day express yesterday. The graduation ceremony at Canterbury College will take place on May 9, when Mr J. A. Hanan, MJLG, chancellor of the University of New Zealand, will confer the degrees. A call from Queenstown to the Rev. D. K. Boyd, who has been stationed 'at Malvern, vras accepted on Wednesday at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery. Mr E. E. D. Clarke, of Melbourne, who is prominent in racing circles in Australia, and Mrs Clarke, arrived at Auckland by the Monterey on Saturday. Mr Clarke, who disposed of his stud stock last week with the object of retiring from racehorse breeding. intends to spend a month at Rotorua fishing. Mr John Mailer, who is well known in mining and farming circles in Otago, and will be 96 years of age next month, left by the through express for the north yesterday on his nineteenth trip to the Old Country. Mr Mailer goes Home yearly to escape the winters. Among the passengers who travelled by the motor ship Port Fairy from London to Suva were Lady Scott, wife of Sir Henry M. Scott, K.C., Mrs L. Pearce, wife of the chief medical officer of Fiji, and Messrs G. T. Gettings and G. Cowan, representatives of the Fiji Civil Service. They disembarked at Suva on April 3. Dr lan C. Fraser, who graduated at the Otago University and completed his studies at the Edinburgh University, is making a brief visit to New Zealand. Accompanied by Mrs Fraser, he arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon by the motor'ship Port Fairy from London. Dr Fraser has been practising in the Channel Islands for the past few years. Mr A. Burt, whose candidature for the City Council had been announced, has decided to withdraw' his name from the list of nominees. Mr Burt was formerly managing director of the firm of Messrs A. and T. Burt, Ltd., and, although there is nothing to prevent him taking" a seat on the council if elected, he has decided that, on account of the amount of contract w r ork carried out by the firm for the City Corporation, it would be better not to associate the firm, even indirectly, with the council. Announcing that the Public Service Commissioner, Mr P. Vershaffelt, would accompany him to London to act as his assistant during the meat discussions, the Minister of Finance (Mr J. G. Coates) said (reports a Press Association telegram from Wellington) that there were many difficult problems to be faced at Home, .and he was anxious that he should ■ have tbe advantage of an assistant possessing a legal mind. Mr Vershaffelt, in addition to being a barrister and solicitor, was a qualified accountant, and in Mr Coates’s opinion would be an acquisition to the delegation. Mr Coates is also taking his personal secretary, Miss H. D. Montague. Mr A. D. Thomson will act as Public Service Commissioner and Mr T. Mark as assistant-commis-sioner. Prominent representatives of tbe Labour Party gathered at the Trades Hall in Wellington yesterday (says a Press Association telegram) to bid farewell to Mr F. D. Cornwell, secretary ot the Wellington Trades and Labour Conncil, who will proceed on Monday to the International Labour Conference at Geneva. He was presented with two travelling rugs, the speakers being Messrs J. Read (president of the council), P. Fraser, M.P., G. Bodell (a past-president of the council), R. Semple, M.P., Mrs Gibson (on behalf of the women of the Labour movement), and Mr Walter Nash, M.P. Mr Cornwell, replying, agreed that more could be done in an hour’s conversation than in a year’s correspondence, and he welcomed the opportunity of meeting the Labour men overseas with whom he had been in communication for a number of years.