PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23859, 13 July 1939, Page 12

PERSONAL

Mr A. J. Empson, vice-president of the New Zealand Federation of Clothing Trades, returned to Christchurch by the through express yesterday. Mr .Justice Johnston will make his headquarters In Wellington and take Supreme Court work there, after the coming Supreme Court session at Hamilton. Mr M. I. Hamilton, of Dunedin, who recently went Home, has enlisted as a private in the Northamptonshire Regiment, to which his grandfather once belonged. After a period in Ireland the regiment is to go to India.

Mr D. A. Ewen, of Wellington, the new district governor of Rotary in New Zealand, who has been attending the conference of Rotary International at Cleveland, Ohio, is due at Auckland by the Niagara from Vancouver on July 24.

Advice has been received by cable in Dunedin that Dr Eric Sundstrum, who left for England in February and has since been taking locums in Bournemouth and furthering his medical experience at St. Peter’s Hospital. London, has been appointed from 90 applicants to the staff of Queen Mary’s Hosnital, where there are now three New Zealand doctors, the other two being Dr Oliver Chanman and Dr Ben Sniers.

Dr A. D. Trendall, of Trinity College, Cambridge, a New Zealander who has gained distinction in archaeological studies, is due at Auckland from London by the Mataroa on Saturday. He will lecture nt the four New Zealand university colleges.

North-bound passengers by Union Airways yesterday morning were Dr J. L. Malcolm, Mr A. L. Walker, Mr T. Quirk for Wellington, Mi's J. C. Bowden for Palmerston North, Mr B. Creighton for Auckland. South-bound passengers by the afternoon plane were Mr and Mrs F. Oldham, Mrs H. G. Finer from Auckland, Mr H. Turner from Wellington, Mr L. A. Symonds from Christchurch.

Dr Peter H. Buck delivered the commencement address at the University of Rochester (New York) on June 19. The university is to confer upon him the honorary degree of doctor of science for worl; done on the ethnology of Polynesia. The Terry Lectures will be published by the Yale Press in the fall of the year. On leaving the United States. Dr Buck will resume duty at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, about the middle of this month. •

Commodore I. G. Glennie, who preceded Commodore J. W. Rivett-Carnac as commodore commanding the New Zealand Squadron, has been appointed captain of the battle-cruiser Hood, a post in which he will perform the duties of chief staff officer to the viceadmiral commanding the battle-cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean. The Rev. Dr R. C. Gillie, a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England, and a well-known author cf theological books, arrived in Dunedin by the express from the north last evening. He was met at the station by Dr E. N. Merringto'n, Dr Dickie, and others, and he will be the guest of Mr W. Downie Stewart. A reception will be tendered to Dr Gillie at the Vedic Tea Rooms this evening, and subsequently .he will deliver a public address. During his New Zealand visit he will occupy the pulpit of St. David’s Church, Auckland, while the Rev. Bower Black is in, England.