PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 12

PERSONAL

Dr B. Monheimer returned from the north on Monday.

Mr W. G. Kindley left by the through express yesterday on a visit to Auckland.

The Rev. Dr Gumming was a passenger by the through express yesterday en route to Auckland.

Mr G. H. Mackley, general manager of railways, arrived by the afternoon express yesterday on a holiday visit to Dunedin.

A Press Association cable message from Fremantle states that a notable passenger by the Otranto, whcih arrived there yesterday, is Lord Hampton. Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scout Movement, who is going to Sydney to represent Lord Baden Powell at the Scouts’ Jamboree, which will be opened next week. The following passes were obtained by members of the Seacliff staff in the December examinations for the registration of mental hospital nurses: —Attendants: H. D. Bell. B. Jaquiery. G. M. Proudfoot, A. Rankine, T. S. Ruddiman, L. Stewart. Nurses; J. M. B. Burns, P. M. Kofoed. M. A. Maker, J. J. Rankine, F, M. Valentine, E. V, M. Wilson.

Cabled advice has been received in Invercargill that Dr R. D. N. Bisset has passed the primary examination for membership of the Royal College of Surgeons. Dr Bisset, who is a graduate of the Otago Medical School, was a junior resident in Christchurch Hospital last year and left for London last March. He has been doing postgraduate work in London for the last nine months.

Mr J. Denford, secretary-treasurer of the Grey Power Board, has been appointed accountant to the Municipal Electricity Department in Christchurch. He was selected from 60 applicants. Mr Denford. who is 37 v years of age, has been secretary of the Grey Power Board for the last 14 months. He was secretary of the Otago Power Board for seven years and ahalf, and secretary-treasurer to the Waitaki Power Board for four years and a-half. He holds the degree of bachelor of commerce.

Mr A. Juriss will retire on Friday after 30 years’ service in the Justice Department at Oamaru Christchurch, Dunedin and Hutt Valley. He was formerly in the New Zealand Permanent Artillery, and was at one time prominent as a champion athlete and oarsman. He represented Canterbury and Otago as an athlete, and was the winner of the Champion Single - Sculls at the Christchurch Jubilee Regatta at Lyttelton in 1901. He is also the holder of the Gold Medallion of the Royal Humane Society, of New Zealand. ,

A Press Association message states that Mr J. G. Simon, son of Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Wanganella with his wife and small daughter. He is assistant manager of the P. and O. Company, and has been visiting Australia. Mr Simon and his v/ife have come to spend Christmas in New Zealand. They will see something of the North Island, and will leave on a pleasure cruise by the Narkunda to the Bay of Islapds, after which they will return to Australia. North-bound passengers by Union Airways yesterday morning were Messrs J. Spiers. G. F. Scott and H. C. Pirn for Christchurch, Miss H. Taylor for Blenheim, and Miss G. Miller, Mrs H. S. McLean. Messrs A. Fyfe and M. Kerry for Wellington. Southbound passengers by the afternoon plane were Miss F. Marshall and Mrs Irving from Palmerston North, Mr A. Geddes from Blenheim, Miss J. McAlister from Wellington. and Mr A. Eton from Christchurch.

Dr V. E. Galway, city organist in Dunedin, choirmaster at First Church, and chief of the department of music at the University, will have about a month in London to meet prominent musicians and to discuss with them educational problems of musical importance (says our London correspondent writing on November 21). He is attending concerts at the Queen’s Hall and hearing opera at Sadler's Wells. During a coming visit to Wales, Dr Galway will make investigations regarding the work that is being done by the National Council of Adult Rural Education. The main purpose during his travels will be to learn about modern teaching developments. He will go to Paris. Denmark, and Sweden. Christmas will be spent in Scotland with relatives. On his way to England Dr Galway spent a few days in New York, where he had the great pleasure of hearing the famed symphonv orchestra conducted by Signor Arturo Toscanini, the wellknown Italian conductor, who is on a concert tour in the United States and who, it is announced, has decided to take out American citizenship papers, An interesting musical event, held at the Royal College of Music. London, on Saturday, was the first representative concert given by 400 musmans of the Federation of Pural Music from nine counties under the auspices Schools. The federation teachers find that stringed instruments are most popular with village |tudents— the students mclude men, women, and youth of all ages.