PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24696, 27 August 1941, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr F. Goodwin was a passenger for Wellington by the express yesterday. Mr N. Murdoch left for Christchurch by the through express yesterday. The Rev. W. A. Hamblett left for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday. ' Mr Jasper Clark and Mr.. W.-'; K. Cameron left for Wellington by the through express yesterday. Messrs M. Connelly and T. O’Byrne, M. and W. M. C. Denham,. M.P., were passengers for Wellington by--lhe through express yesterday; ,> Dr J. B. Dawson left for Wellington by the express yesterday to attend a meeting of the council of the Nev Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. • ‘ . Sir Francis Frazer arrived in Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon and will preside at a sitting of the War Pensions Appeal Board today. Squadron Leader A. G. Lester has been appointed air liaison officer- at headquarters of the Southern Military District, Christchurch, and has commenced duty. - ’ Mr Henry Barnett, who for the past three seasons has been manager of the Goodwood Dairy Factory, has been appointed manager of the Cam Dairy Factory at Rangiora. Mr Frederick John Lock has been selected as the National Party candidate for Nelson electorate. Mr Lock is a tailor by trade, and is in business in Nelson. Brigadier 0. H. Mead, C.8.E., D. 5.0., N. officer commanding the Southern Military District, returned north by car yesterday after a visit of inspection to camps and fortress areas around Dunedin and Invercargill. Mr B. S. Irwin was re-elected president of the Forbury Park Trotting Club at the annual meeting of the club last night. It is 26 years since, he was first elected to the club committee, and this will be his eighteenth year .as president. Messrs J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., J. Price, and H. Hodgson, members of the No. 6 Armed Forces Appeal Board, accompanied by Mr _A. N. Hagptt, who appears for the Crown, are visiting Invercargill. The board will be occupied in Invercargill untit' next Thursday. ; r

Mr A. S. Holms, Waimahaka.'-Jeft for Wellington by the express yester-' day to attend a meeting of the Meat Board. Mr J. D. Revie'(South Otago) and Mr G A. Hamilton (Southland), representatives of the respective electoral committees, also left for r-Wel-lington td engage on business, connected with the meat industry:;' Miss Eva Moore, Of WelKngttm, who will judge the dancing at the annual festival of the Dunedin Competitions Society, which commences to-day, Mr Errol H. F. Mmr, of Wellington, elocution . judge, Mid Mr Victor C. Peters, of Christchurch, judge of vocal music, arrived by the through express yesterday afternoon. They were welcomed by, the president (Mr W. R. Sinclair) and other members of the Competitions Society,

Mr F O. V. Acheson, judge of. the Native Land Court, Auckland, has announced that he will contest the Rotorua electorate at the forthcoming elections as an Independent National candidate. He was born at Riverton in 1887, and after taking his LL.B. at Otago University, went on to Victoria College, where he graduated as a master of laws in 1913. * After practising for some years as a barrister and solicitor, he was appointed a judge of the Native Land Court in 1918... --. • Private advice has been received by Mr S. E. Griffiths, St. Clair, from his son, Padre R. J. Griffiths, who was reported missifig after the operations in Crete, that he is well, and carrying on his chaplain’s duties in a hospital in ; Greece. ■ In his ‘letter, Padre Griffiths states that there are a number of New Zealand doctors attached to this hospital, and also many New Zealand wounded soldiers. They are very comfortable, and well treated, and are all comparatively cheerful. Mr Will Ashton, director of the National Art Gallery, Sydney, has accep-. ted an invitation from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to be pres.ent at the opening of the exhibition of Australian and New Zealand art in Washington next month. The exhibition will be held in the United States National Gallery of Art. known as the American LoUvre, said to be the largest marble building in the world. It was presented to the nation by the late Andrew W. Mellon, formerly Secretary of the Treasury. . and was opened last March by President Roosevelt.

Passengers for the north by airliner yesterday were Miss I. Anderson, Miss E. Hodgson, and Mr H. Higgins for A. J. Pascoe, Mr and Mrs M. H. McKenzie, and Miss E. L. R. Rogers for Wellington, Pilot Officer W. Murray for Auckland. , Passengers, who arrived by the afternoon plane were: Mrs H. Gordon from Wellington, Mrs A. C. Adair and child from Auckland, Mr C. A. Campbell, Mr W. A. Edwards, Mr B. C. McCabe, Miss Y. Watson, Miss D. Watson, Mrs G. SI Morse, and Mrs C, A. Deyell from Christchurch. ' I _‘