PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 8

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, and Lady Newall, accompanied by Wing Commander H. C. Bevan.and Captain C. J. Holland-Martfn, returned to Government House from Rotorua yesterday morning. General Sir Guy Williams and Brigadier & A. Weit have arrived at Government House,

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Mr J. G. Coates, M.P., a member of ttie War Cabinet, will fly from Wellington to Dunedin to-day, and will open.officially the new premises of tho Dunedin Manufacturers' Association. He will speak at the annual meeting of the association to-night. Mr Coates will fly from Dunedin to Christchurch on Wednesday, and will attend, a luncheon which will be given by the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association. He will meet the Christ-' church Chamber of Commerce in the afternoon and the Victoria League at night, and will return to Wellington on Thursday.

Mr E. F. Esquilant, of Gisborne. Js visiting Dunedin. • ,' , . Mr A. O. Wellwood returned to Christchurch by the express last night. Sir Louis Barnett, of Hampden, accompanied by Lady Barnett, arrived in Dunedin yesterday. Private A. D. R. Bain, of Dunedin, has advised his relatives that he is a prisoner of war. He is in good health. Mr O. L. Garden, manager of. tha Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society for Otago and Southland, left for Christchurch by train last" night.

Mr D. P. Howlett has been, announced as the National Party candidate for Wellington South. Mr Howlett stood against Mr R. McKeen. M.P., in 1938.

Colonel B," S. Finn/D.5.0., director-of dental services for New Armed Forces, arrived by train from the north yesterday, and Christchurch by the express last .night.

The appointment of 1 Mr A. A. McLachlan, of Christchurch, aftempqrary stipendiary' magistrate has jjieen extended'"from OctobefiJ to November 30. states a Gazette notice. .. ,•; . The Mayor (Mr A. H. JMien) and Mr H. L. Gibson were appointed the City Council's representatives, oh the South Islands Travel Association at last night's meeting of the council. . > ■:.>

Father P, McKeefry, of, Auckland,; arrived by the express yesterday:-to *ttend a Month's Mind at St. Joseph's Cathedral in connection 1 .with the r»cent death of Monsignor-C. J, Morkahe. Major J. T. Burrows. f 2oth (Canter.: bury-Otago) Battalion.); has been graated the temporary rank'of lieuten-ant-colonel, while ■ commanding the central infantry trailing' depot. . ,; Mr D. L Macdonald, of Wellington, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers* Federation, arrived r ,yester.day, and will attend-the annual meet* ing of the Dunedin Manufocturers'Association.: to-night... '•■.,.. . ._, '": £' I'-' '■ -~ ;-, ■:" The Revs. D. J. B. Dorman (Waitaki), A. H. Blackburn (Oamaru), A. W. Stace (Hampden), and C. N. Luker (Bluff) arrived'by the afternoon express yesterday to attend /the sessions of the Anglican Synod, -j" ■ :.. ■;.. Passengers from tjie north by air yesterday were Mr WI A, Thompson. Mr S. J. Baker and Mr P. D. Bdwards from Wellington, Mr N. C. Harris; Mr A. Smillie and Mr R, S, Glendining from Christchurch. . ..., ,/:;-■' "I "-„ ; „?...,.•►,. '.^i

Mr J. M. of the,;Dunedir> office of the Department oif and Commerce, is being transferred on promotion head office. Mr Bremner will>leave for Wellington tomorrow morning. f . Major D. E. Wanklyny of Christchurch, commanderof th«|,3rd Reserve of the f Zealand Motor -Transport Company, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned north by train last night. He was accompanied by his adjutant, Lieutenant L. Harris.

Sergeant S. King, now i stationecLat Gore and formerly, at InvercargMj has been promoted to the rank of senior sergeant. He will succeed Senior Sergeant D. J. Hewitt at Tiraaru.. Senior Sergeant Hewitt left Timaru last week for Wellington, where he has been appointed sub-inspector.

Mr J. Allen and Mr D. McCurrte. ; warrant officers I attached to the New, ; Zealand Permanent Military Staff, have been promoted to commissioned rank. ; Lieutenant McCurrie will in future act :,as superintending quartermaster at the 1 Wingatiii:;and Forbury Park territorial camps, and Lieutenant Allen will have ■charge of an area block at Burnham.

f In recognition of his valuable service' as president of the Otago Centre of the New,Zealand Swimming Association during the past 10] seasons, Mr '. W. A; Jenkins was presented with a •chiming clock by the rtewly-electeri president, Mr S. Brown,. onVbehalf of the members, at the annual meeting of Jhe centre last night. Eulbgistic reference to Mr Jenkins's wbrk.for the (port was made by the deputy-' chajr,man, Mr E. H. James, and:other-mem-bers of the centre committee.& Mr ' Jenkins.suitably replied. : «*»;

Reference to the deaths ■ of Mejfcrs 'W. H.~ Matthews, F. E. L. Forres'tejrand •Percy Priest was ihade at -the annua* .mteeting' of the Gtago Centre of thes \Nfew Zealand Amateur; Swimming■'*,■ Association last night. Mr Matthews,' r jt was stated, was one of the foremost diving coaches in New Zealand, and as president had given outstanding service to the Dunedin Club: Mr.. Forrester was a former treasurer <jf the cefrtre ajid had done great worßklu prbmoting '•': the:, sport children,- was at* eaKSswHgg-{. president of'the-- centre. • ' ''^tv^^-"'

Major Derek Denny-Brown, of. New: Pljmiouth. has been, sent [by the War. • Office to Harvard.'United states. where he will be attached'.tb Boston Citap HosDitel as director, of unfit. He will be attached" to ' several committees enacted in war work. Mr»jor Denny-Brown (writes our London correspondent) had previously be«ftai second in command to Colonel H. W. B. Cairns, the famous brain sur* : geijn. at St. Hugh's Military Hospital.. Oxford, which was established soon aft<pr the outbreak of war. He has had a distinguished career, and in 1936 was. awarded a Rockefeller Schplarship for medical research; .^ ; f* E$- M. A.-Falconer, son bf Dr A. R& Falconer, of Dunedin. has been pointed assistant surgeon on the staff of the Radcliffe Hospital tin Oxford, Enjtend. Dr Falconer, who is 31 years of age. left New Zealand'in 1935 to further his studies in London, Aberdeen Munich. Vienna, and at the Mayo Clinfc in Rochester. Minnesota. When he upturned on a visit to his home in 1938; he was the first medical student in i*e world chosen for a Nuffield Fellowship. He was selected bv the New Zealand University, as the first organisation in any Empire country asked to nominate a candidate., and carried out two'years' study in brain "and nerve surgery under Professor Hugh Cairns. a