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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23857, 11 July 1939, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr Justice Smith will arrive in Dunodin from Wellington on Monday next to preside at the quarterly sessions of the Suoreme Court, which will open on the following day. The members of the Arbitration Court—Mr Justice Callan and Messrs A. L. Monteith and W. Cecil Primeleft for Timaru by the through express \esterday. Dr T. W. Harrison, who will leave at the end of the week, will join the Empire Star at Auckland for London, where he will continue his medica* studies. Captain J. Ellis, who has been in charge of the Church Army Training College at Newcastle. England, for three years, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Av;ntea on a short visit to Now Zealand. Mr R. H. Williams, secretary of the Musterton A. and P. Association, was yesterday appointed Wairarapa Provincial Secretary of the Farmers' Union in succession to the late Mr James Watson. Mr Justice Johnston, who has been president of the Court of Review for the last four years, will conduct the sessions of the Supreme Court which cr.en at Hamilton on July 18. The work of the Court of Review is now almost completed. Mr L. W. Woods, assistant lecturer in economics at the University of Ctag«v has been appointed organ using officer in the sports division of the Department of Internal Affairs. His headquarters will be in Wellington.

Reference to the loss which the club had suffered through the death of Mr Lindsay Aitken. a playing member of the senior fifteen, was made by the president (Mr S. Butler) at the annual :;moke concert of the Dunedin Football Club on Saturday night. Members paid the customary tribute to the memory of their club-mate.

The senior purser in the service of the Union Company, Mr Frederick H. Ferguson, lately stationed on the Monowai. after 23 years at sea. has been appointed to a shore position in the company's Wellington office. He has been purser since 1916. The highlight of Mr Ferguson's experience was the loss of the Tahiti, of which he was .purser, in the Pacific Ocean in 1930. Passengers for the north by Union Airways yesterday morning were Mr B. W. Clouston. for Blenheim, and Mr L R. Blake, for Wellington. South-bound passengers in the afternoon were Mr C, w. Lewis from New Plymouth, and Miss D. Howarth, Mr and Mrs R. G. Cotton and Miss E. G. Cotton, from Wellington. A former president and a life member of the Dunedin Football Club Mr A. C. Haynes, was honoured at the club's annual smoke concert on Saturday night when he was presented with p. gold miniature football engraved with his years of service, and a fireside chair for his mother. The presentation was made on behalf of the club by the president (Mr S. Butler), who said that Mr Haynes had held office as president for 16 years and his membership of the club dated back to 1902. Mr M. O'Sullivan also spoke of the valuable services which Mr Haynes had given to the club.