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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23005, 7 October 1936, Page 10

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Mr W. Easton returned to Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr A. Campbell, the member for Chalmers, left yesterday for Wellington. Mr C. Stanley Smith returned to Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr J. A. Roy, member for Clutha, passed through Dunedin yesterday on his way to Wellington. Mr F. Waite, M.L.C., travelled from Balclutha to Dunedin by the through express yesterday. The Commissioner of Police (Mr D. J. Cummings) arrived in Dunedin from the north by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr Geoff Parker, of the Timaru branch of Messrs John Edmond, Ltd., has been transferred to the firm's head office in Dunedin. Before leaving he was presented with a travelling rug. The Union Airways liner Kororo left the Taieri aerodrome at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North. The Korimako arrived from the north at 12.55 p.m. with Mr and Mrs G* Luoni and Mr R. Hewitt from Palmerston North, Messrs L. Smith, R. Berryman, and T. Coltman from Blenheim, and Messrs B. Young and W. J. Fernie from Christchurch. At the annual meeting on Monday night of the Otago Centre of the Piping and Dancing Association of New Zealand, the president, Mr Albert Wheeler, referred to the recent death of Mr John Gold, of Balclutha. Mr Gold had been a well-known figure in South Otago, he said, and he had been a great worker for piping and dancing, especially in the Balclutha district. The association would be the poorer for his passing. A resolution of sympathy with his relatives was passed. Mr Douglas Lilburn, of Christchurch, has won the Percy Grainger competition for a typical New Zealand musical composition. Mr Lilburn, who is 20 years of age, is a student at Canterbury College, studying for the degree of Bachelor of Music. The winning composition (says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch) is a tone poem for an orchestra entitled "Forest." The competition was conducted by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board at the suggestion of Mr Grainger, who gave the first prize of £25, the board providing the second and third prizes of £lO and £5. The other prize-winners are not yet known. Appreciative reference to the influence in sport of the late Mr Donald Stuart is contained in the annual report of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association (Otago Centre), in which the following paragraph appears:—" Sport in Otago suffered an almost irreparable loss during the year in the death of our beloved friend, Mr Donald Stuart, whose genial presence will be sadly missed. Mr Stuart had long been a staunch supporter of the centre, and in his younger d3ys was one of the finest water polo players this province has ever produced, as well as being an excellent swimmer. Mr Stuart was one of Nature's gentlemen, a sportsman in the true meaning of the word, and one of whom it may be said that his greatest pleasure was derived in rendering service to others." Dr J. Cairney, of Lower Hutt, who has been appointed to the position of assistant medical superintendent at the Wellington Hospital, is 37 years of age. He has had 12 years' surgical experience, and has the degrees of M. 8., Ch.B. and M.D. For three years he was in Dunedin teaching operative surgery at Otago University, and was then appointed to the position of medical superintendent at the Hawern Public Hospital, which post he held for eight years and a-half. For the past six months he has been in private practice at Lower Hutt. Prior to his graduation he interrupted his studies in October. 1919, to take up the position of junior demonstrator in anatomy at the Dunedin Medical School. In August, 1921, he again joined the staff of the department of anatomy until June, 1927, having successively held the status of senior demonstrator, lecturer and associate professor. His period of service on the staff of the Medical School includes one year, from August, 1925, spent in medical study and research in the United States, as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. London. For the past five years he has been an external examiner in anatomy for the medical and dental degree examinations of the University of New Zealand.