PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23649, 5 November 1938, Page 14

PERSONAL

Mr A. C. Matheson was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Sir Robert Anderson, of Invercargill, is visiting Dunedin, and is staying at the City Hotel. Mr G. Nelson, Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, after 40 years -with the Post and Telegraph Department, will retire at the end of this month on superannuation at his own request. Mr A. S. Holms, of Waimahaka, who has been on a visit to Wellington, was a passenger by the through express for the south yesterday. Mr James Begg, who has been attending a meeting of the Meat Board in Wellington, returned to Dunedin by motor car from Christchurch 'yesterday. Mr R. J. Moir, of Miller's Flat, has just returned from a trip to the Old Country, through which he travelled extensively, spending most of his time renewing old acquaintances in Scotland. A Press Association cablegram from London states that Mr Edgar Vernon Bevan has been appointed New Zealand manager, and. Mr Donald Robertson assistant manager of the Shaw Savill and Albion Line. North-bound passengers by Union Airways yesterday morning were Messrs E. C. Hartndge and J. F. Hargrave for Christchurch, Messrs J. R. Wilson, B. S." Morrison and C. R. Johnston for Wellington, and Mr G. A. Coughlan for Auckland. South-bound passengers in the afternoon included Mr J. T. Dixon from Wellington. The Rev. Johnson Turnbull, for 30 years in the service of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Bolivia, was an interesting arrival by the Arawa at Wellington yesterday. He came to New Zealand as a baby with his mother, and spent 25 years in Dunedin, and is now back to visit his mother, who is in her ninety-eighth year. Mr A. P. Hunt, an associate member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, arrived by the Arawa at Wellington yesterday to take up an inspectorate position with the civil branch of the Air Department. This work is expected to expand considerably with the establishment of the transocean services and the development of internal transport. He is a fully qualified pilot, and has acted as inspector of large establishments in Great Britain. Mr Hunt is accompanied by his wife. A silver cup to perpetuate the memory of Mr W. H. Winsor, for many years a member of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council and latterly its honorary secretary, has been presented to the council by Mr A. T. Donnelly, of Christchurch. This announcement (says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch) was made to the annual meeting of the council last night by the chairman of the Management Committee (Mr D. E. Wanklyn), who said the Management Committee recommended that the council should accept the trophy, which was to be awarded for bowling, along the same lines as the Redpath Cup for batting.