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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr S. B. Macdonald, of Auckland, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Mr C. A. Wilson was last evening elected president of the Otago Acclimatisation Society. Sir Robert Anderson, of Invercargill, is at present in Dunedin, and will be a guest at Wain’s Hotel for some time. The commissioner of pensions (Mr H. Digby Smith) arrived in Dunedin during the week-end. He spent yesterday interviewing pensioners, and will leave this morning for Oamaru. The following Dunedin candidates were successful at the March examinations in completing the final examination of the Australasian Institute of Secretaries:—J. F. N. Harris, F. R. Thompson; section pass, W. Couper. In rhe intermediate examination L. Millar was successful in the sectional pass. For the fifteenth successive year Mr W. J. Holdsworth was re-elected chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board at its annual meeting. It is an office (reports our special correspondent) which he has held since the board’s inception in 1922. Proposing Mr Holdsworth for the position. Mr S. J. Harbutt (deputy-chairman) said the chairman had filled his position with dignity and honour to the board, and, although at the present time he was not enjoying the very best of health, it was hoped that it would not be long before he would be able to return to his duties. The chairman’s honorarium was fixed at £4OO. The Union Airways liner Korimako left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, Blenheim, and Palmerston North with Messrs W. Burton and F. Evans for Christchurch. The Karoro arrived from the north at 1 p.m. with Mrs Penman from Palmerston North, Miss E. Lord from Nelson, Mrs T. Bridgman from Blenheim, and Mr H. C. W. Preston from Christchurch. The cure of Akaroa has been accepted by Archdeacon A. J. Petrie, who has been vicar of St. Stephen’s Church, Ashburton, for nearly nine years. He will take up his new duties at the end of August. Archdeacon Petrie was born in May, 1888. He was educated at Selwyn College. Dunedin, taking a degree in theology at Durham 'He was ordained as a deacon in 1912. and as a priest in 1913, For a year he was priest in charge of Owaka, and from 1914 to 1917 served as curate of St. Matthew’s, Dunedin. His appointment as Archdeacon of Akaroa and Ashburton took effect in 1934.