PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 14

PERSONAL

Mr J. Sutherland Ross left for Auckland yesterday. Mr W. W. Batchelor returned by yesterday afternoon’s express from a business visit to .Wellington. Mr Justice Johnston, president of the Court of Review, is at present visiting Dunedin. Mr Justice Kennedy will leave for Invercargill on Monday to preside at the Supreme Court sessions in that centre.

Mr William Buchan, who has been for many years missioner at the Sailors’ Rest in Dunedin, left yesterday, with Mrs Buchan, on a holiday visit to Scotland.

The University of New Zealand has received a cablegram from the registrar of the University of Bristol notifying the appointment to a Michael Hiatt Baker scholarship in that university of Mr S. C. B. Gascoigne, M.Sc., of Auckland.

An interesting traveller to New Zealand and Australia on the Monterey, which arrived at Auckland yesterday, was Captain Harold Auten, V.C., who won the honour in British “ mystery ” ships during the war. He is now manager in the United States for British motion picture interests.

The Union airways liner Karoro left the Taieri airport at 8.15 yesterday morning for Christchurch, T’enheim, and Palmerston North, with Mr L. Farr for Christchurch,- Mrs W. F. Forrester for Wellington, and Mrs J. Landels for Palmerston North. The south-bound liner Kotuku arrived at 2.45 p.m. from the north with Mr Marshall from Palmerston North and Dr H. Wales and Miss B. Wales from Christchurch.

Mr James Henry Quilliam, a former well-known New Plymouth lawyer, has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court to relieve Mr Justice Ostler. Making the announcement, the Attorney-general said that because of the continued illness of Mr Justice Ostler, it had become necessary to make a temporary appointment. Mr Quilliam will take up his duties immediately. He will officiate largely in Wellington and those circuits adjacent that were in the charge of Mr Justice Ostler.