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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23931, 5 October 1939, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr S. Taylor was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Mr N. G. Stewart left for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday. A • Press Association telegram from Westport says that the Mayor (Mr J. Kilkenny) sprang a surprise on the town yesterday by tendering his resignation, alleging pressure of business' as the cause of his action. Mr and Mrs L. G. Lilly returned.to Dunedin yesterday from a tour of Europe and England. A motion of condolence with the family of Mr A. J. Fox on their recent loss' was carried by the butchers, graziers and stock agents at the Burnside sale yesterday morning. Mr Arthur Barnett. jun., will leave for military camp to-morrow. A presentation was made to him yesterday by the staff of Messrs Arthur Barnett, Ltd., and the good wishes of employees of the firm were extended to him.

A Press Association cablegram from Sydney states that Sir Harry Brown has resigned from the post of Directorgeneral of the Postal Services for persona] reasons. It is unofficially stated that he is expected to receive an appointment with the British Government.

Major-general J. E. Duigan, C. 8., D. 5.0., Chief of Staff of the New Zealand Military Forces, visited Burnham yesterday, and later inspected the coast-1 defence batteries at Lyttelton. He returned to Wellington by last night's steamer express. M» G. S Cox, who was one of the 1932 New Zealand Rhodes Scholars, has, as a representative of London newspapers, been seeing a good deal of the Continent during the past two years. He is now a staff reporter in Paris for the Daily Express.

The Rev. C. H. Ritchie, rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, and Sandford Canon in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Edinburgh, has been appointed Archdeacon of Northumberland and Canon of Newcastle Cathedral, and the appointment had been approved by the King. Canon Ritchie is a native of New Zealand, where he spent the first 20 years of his life

After commanding about 24 vessels of the Union Steam Ship Company since 1910. Captain A. T. Norton, master of the Union Company's Pacific cargo motor-ship Limerick, retired in Sydney at the end of last month. Captain Norton served a four years apprenticeship in sail with the Shaw Savill and Albion Company. Ltd.. before ioinlng the Union Company in 1898 In 1925 Captain Norton was appointed to the command of the steamer Waiotapu and remained m that vessel for two years before being transferred to the motor-ship Hauraki. oi which he was master for seven years, In 1934 he was sent to Great Britain to take command of the Limerick Northbound passengers by Union Airways yesterday morning were Mrs H. H Dobie. Mrs B Stenley and Miss H E. Gillett, for Christchurch, Master* A. and R. Bram Well, and Mr A P Mackie, for and Mrs j Winefield, Messrs G. D Wright and D Wright, for Palmerston North. Southbound passengers by the afternoon plane were Messrs R. W. Gallon, C. H. Lyng and M. Stewart, from Christchurch