PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 10

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Minister of Agriculture (Mr W. Lee Martin) will arrive in Dunedin by the express to-morrow afternoon, and will stay at the Grand Hotel. On Friday afternoon he will open the Dunedin Winter Show, and he expects to return to Wellington on Monday.

Mr F. J. Williams left by yesterday morning’s express on a business trip to Wellington. Mr A. H. Allen left yesterday morning to attend a meeting of the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in Wellington. Mr G. R. Herron, of Southland, was appointed president of the Dominion Group Herd-testing Federation at the annual meeting held at Napier. Messrs H. L. Paterson, E. G. Wilson, and C. L. Calvert travelled to Wellington yesterday to attend the conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association.

Mr Alfred Walmsley left yesterday for the north under engagement to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board for a tour of the national stations, extending over three weeks.

Mr W. J. Grant, editor of the Rangoon Times. Burma, who returned to Dunedin recently owing to the illness of his sister, left yesterday morning ea route for Sydney. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the Government goodwill mission to Samoa, the Minister of Lands (Air F. Langstone) and Mr J. O’Brien, M.P., sailed by the motor ship Maui Pomare yesterday. " ' After 18 years as chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Mr William Wallace was defeated for the position at the annual meeting of the board vesterday. The Rev. W. C. Wood was elected chairman by 6 votes to 5, Mr Wood has been chairman of the Relief Committee of the board. Dr C. J. Rolls, who is on a lecturing and preaching tour of New Zealand, left Dunedin by yesterday’s express, en route for Featherston. During his stay in Dunedin ho was the guest of Mr W. T. Wilson.

St. Hilda’s Collegiate School is to lose the services of Misses Peake and Macdonald, who have between them given 19 years’ loyal service to the school. The Board of Governors has appointed Miss Fay Cowper, diploma of physical training, and Miss Winifred M'Quilkan. L.T.C.L.. M.A. Dip. Hone., to fill the vacancies.

Mr 11. J. Lawrie, Btationmaster at Kingston, will arrive in Dunedin shortly to take up a position on the passenger stuff of the Dunedin branch of the Railways Department. Ho will be succeeded at Kingston by Mr B. Felton, of Dunedin. At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Horticultural Society last night the president (Mr 11. S. Hungerford) referred to the deaths of three prominent members of the society—Miss Reid, and Messrs E. 0. Reilly and Malcolm Scott. Members stood in silence as a. mark of respect to (heir memory. The Union airliner Korimako left the Taicri at 8.15 a.m. yesterday for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Miss M. Teylor for Palmerston North and Mr Gordon Smith for Wellington. The Karoro arrived at the Taieri at I P-m. with Mrs J. W. Young from Christchurch and Mr R. Malaghan from Blenheim.

A distinguished visitor, who will arrive at Auckland by the Wanganella from Sydney to-day, is the Most Rev. C, F. D’Arcy, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate ot All Ireland. Dr D’Arcy, who has been visiting Australia, will remain in Auckland until Friday, as the Primate was expressly named in the will of the late James Dilworth as the person to whom yearly reports of the Dilworth School were to be sent, and as he has always expressed his interest in the school, the chairman of *the Dilworth Trust Board, Archdeacon MacMnrray, has invited his Grace to visit the school.

Representatives on the Otago and Southland Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Association met in the association’s rooms yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Miss MTanmey, of the association stuff, who is leaving to be married, and Mr E. L. White, local manager for the Queensland Insurance Company, Ltd., who is being transferred to Auckland. The chairman, Mr F. V. Drake, in handing to Miss MTanmey an inscribed silver entree dish and to Mr White an engraved silver cigarette case, expressed his congratulations and good wishes. The remarks of the chairman were supplemented by most of the representatives present.