PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23734, 15 February 1939, Page 10

PERSONAL

Dr D. G. McMillan. M.P., was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr N. R. Cowles, of the A.M.P. Society. Timaru. arrived yesterday to take over his appointment as new business representative at Dunedin. Messrs J. R. Luff and P. Latimore left by the through express yesterday for Wellington to attend a meeting of boot manufacturers.

Mr T. S. Trewqrn left yesterday on his return to Sydney after visiting relatives in Dunedin.

A Press Association cable message from London states that Lord and Lady Runciman will leave on February 17 on a health trip to Australia.

Major-general J. E. Duigan, C. 8., D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C., inspected the camp of the 10th Battery at Sutton yesterday, and will leave by air for the north this morning. The Rev. A. G. Saunders, organiser of the Loyal Orange Institution, arrived by the express last evening. He will leave this morning for South Otago, and will return to Dunedin at the week-end.

Messrs John Dunlop (Seaward Downs) and G. Herron (Invercargill) were passengers by the through express from the south yesterday for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Herd Recording Council.

North-bound passengers by Union Airways yesterday morning were Messrs T. W. Hammond, A. N. Thomson and J. C. Macdonald for Christchurch, Messrs H. Speight and R. N. Ridde for Wellington, and Mr B. H. Nees and Miss E. Kennerley for Auckland. South-bound passengers in the afternoon were Mr C. J. Marshall from Palmerston North, Mr G. Rumble and Mrs H. Riley from Wellington, and Messrs H. Poppelwell and J. H. Mills and Mr and Mrs F. Billings from Christchurch.

Mr J. C. Hayhurst. of Temuka, has been fortunate enough to be appointed to an agricultural sub-editoi’’s position with C. Arthur Pearson. Ltd., publishers of several periodicals and magazines (says our London correspondent. writing on January 26). Therefore, Mr and Mrs Hayhurst are settling permanently in England. For three months they were living at Southsea. where Mrs Hayhurst was able to renew acquaintance with a number of Auckland friends who married naval officers while they were at the New Zealand Station, but who are now resident in England. Mr Stewart Carswell, of the mechanical staff of the Otago Daily Times Jobbing Department, on the eve of his departure to take up a position in the North Island, was presented by his workmates with a fountain pen and a Morocco wallet. In the absence of 'Mr H. Harris, manager of the department. Mr F. Mitchell made the presentation, and Mr Carswell suitably replied. Mr George Thomson, formerly of the Dunedin School of Mines, has been in England, with Mrs Thomson and their daughter, on leave from the Gold Coast (says our London correspondent, writing on January 26). He left. Liverpool again this week. Mr Thomson is now general manager of one of the chief Ashanti mines. Mrs Thomson (whose father was Mr Herbert Edwards, of Oamaru) is remaining in London while her daughter takes a course of study at the Battersea Polytechnic. Dr W. Traill Thomson has retired from active practice at Leamington. Warwickshire, but he still resides in this beautiful English centre.