PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22889, 25 May 1936, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr J. S. Hislop left for Wellington on Saturday morning. Captain N. A. Rattray was a passenger for Wellington by the north express on Saturday morning. Professor W. B. Benham was a passenger for Timaru by the through express on Saturday. Mr J. C. H. Somerville left on Saturday on a business trip to Australia. Mr G. Black, general manager for New Zealand of Messrs Dalgety and Co., left for Wellington on Saturday. Mr J. A. Hanan. M.L.C., and Mr M. Connelly, M.L.C., returned to Dunedin bv the express on Saturday afternoon. Mr Justice Johnston, of Wellington, is at present visiting Dunedin. He is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr H. H. Sykes was a passenger by the through express on Saturday mornintr en route to Wellington. Mr W. A. Armour, headmaster of Wellington Boys' College, who has been on a visit to Dunedin, returned north on Saturday. Rear-admiral J. S. M. Ritchie left on Saturday for Wellington, where he will join the Tamarba en route to England. Mr P. Neilson, M.P.,' Dr D. G. M'Millan. M.P., and Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., arrived in Dunedin by the express from the north on Saturday afternoon. ' Mr T. F. Doyle. M.L.C., Mr P. Waite, M.L.C., Mr T. O'Byrne, M.L.C., and Mr A._ Hamilton, M.P., passed through Dunedin on their way south by the express on Saturday afternoon.

The Southland Aero Club's Major Moth, piloted by Flying-officer S. L. Gilkison, left the Taieri Aerodrome at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday for Invercargill with Miss D. Paterson as passenger. Mr A. R. Turner (Ettrick) .left by the express for the north on Saturday morning to join, the Tamaroa at Wellington. He will proceed' to London on a short holiday visit to the United Kingdom and the Continent in company with his father, Mr H. Turner.

Further successes at the Christchurch Competitions were won by the following Dunedin competitors:—Miss Edna Lungley, elocution scholarship, open to men and women (first equal with Miss Joy Knowles in the humorous recitation and second in the recitation of a poem by a New Zealand author); Misses Jean Lister, Edna Liingley, and Joy Knowlea, second, half-hour play; and Miss Jean Lister, second, Dominion test. Miss Margaret Young has been appointed assistant mistress in the junior school of Columba College. Miss Young holds the diploma of the Kindergarten and Montessori Training College of South Australia, and has had experience in leading girls' colleges in Adelaide. Mr F. F. M. Ferguson, manager of the Dunlop Rubber Company (N.Z.), Ltd., has returned to Wellington after seven months' absence from New Zealand, including four months in England. He visited the United States of America and Canada on his way to England, and returned via the Mediterranean, spending a month in India. . Few greater tributes to the meniory ot a Timaru citizen have been paid than the impressive funeral which was accorded the Mayor (Mr T. W. Satterthwaite) on Friday afternoon. All sections of the community, town and country alike, combined in a striking expression of appreciation of the 26 years of service which Mr Satteithwaite had devoted to the welfare and advancement of Timaru, and the result was one of the largest and most repiesentative funerals the town has seen. The Union Airways liner Konmako lett the Taieri aerodrome at 8.15 a.m. on batvrdav for Christchurch. Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Mrs 0. Marshall lor Blenheim and Messrs W. A. &■ Armour, J. Simpson, and A. R. Hams for Christchurch. The Karoro arrived at 12.50 p.m. on Saturday with Messrs l>. J. Stevens from Palmerston North and L R Gilmour from Christchurch. lne Karoro left the Taieri at 8.15 a.m. yesterday with Mrs D. Finnogan, Miss B. CarrTand Mr I. H. Aitken for ? Christchurch. The Kotuku arrived at 12.5 p.m. from Palmerston North via Blenheim and Christchurch with Mr N. F—from Palmerston North, MrE.C. Dobson from Blenheim, and Miss B. Provo. Miss MB Fordo, Mrs W B. Cunningham, Master Peter Cunningham. Dr YV u. Bremner, Messrs S. White and J. Collici from Christchurch. , At a large gathering of members and fritnds the Rev. T. Keith Ewen was tendered a farewell last evening in the Hanover Street Baptist Church at a sioit afteriKS Social. Several, speakers eulorised Mr Ewen's work during his 11 n S as acting-pastor, stating^that; they had come to know him and appreciate ins qualities. A suitably-inscr.bed Schofield reference Bible was presented to Mi Ewen. who spoke in reply, with several touches of humour, of his period of ministry He stated that he would be remaining in' Dunedin, a city to which he had become much attached. Mr Ewen will in a short time, take up his duties as actingpastor at the South Dunedin Baptist Church. Misses Millie Shrimpton and Edith Ritchie rendered sacred soles, and 'upper was served at the close when many took the opportunity of bidding a personal farewell to Mr Ewen.