PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs A. J. McDermott, of 201 Preston crescent, Belleknowes, have received official advice that their son, C. C. McDermott, has been promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant.

Father Ardagh, administrator of St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin, who has been a patient in the Lewisham Hospital, Christchurch, is reported to be making satisfactory progress. Word has been • received that Miss D. G. Blackmore, who was formerly principal of. St Hilda’s Collegiate School in Dunedin, has been appointed to a senior position in St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrew’s, Fifeshire. The chairman (Mr A. C. Leary) at a meeting of the Otago Primary Production Council yesterday, welcomed two new members of the council, Messrs S. C. Bingham (district man-power officer) and Mr J. G. Richards (of the Department of Agriculture). The appointment of the Mayor (Mr D. C. Cameron) and Crs W. B. Taverner, L. M. Wright, and D. C. Jolly as representatives of the City Council on the Art Gallery Society will be recommended by the Finance Committee to the meeting of the council on Monday night. Mr Arthur Morton, of Egmont Village, who has been chairman of the National Dairy Association, Ltd., continuously since 1911, has announced his retirement frpm that position. He has given SO years’ service to the industry, including 38 years as a director of the National Dairy Association.

Members of business associations made a pleasant break yesterday afternoon to have afternoon tea with Mr H. E. Thomas, lately manager of Messrs J. J. Niven and Co.’s Dunedin branch. Mr Thomas has started business on his own account, and his business associates took advantage of the occasion to present him with a solid leather attache case as a memento of the pleasant relations that had always existed between them. Mr B. G. Corlett, who is at present on a visit to Dunedin, has been responsible for the commencement of two theological colleges, one at Glenleith, Dunedin, and the other at Woolwich, Sydney. Mr Corlett was the first secretary of the Board of Management of the Churches of Christ College in this city, and now holds a similar position in Sydney, where he is also chairman of the Home Mission Department. Twenty years ago he was minister at the North-East Valley Church of Christ, where he will be the preacher at to-morrow evening’s service. Passengers for the north by the airliner yesterday were: Miss M. Coull and Miss M. Campbell for Christchurch, Mrs L. E. Barrett, Mrs G. Munro, Mr C. E Fowler, Mr W. Carson, Mr J. Lock, and Mr B. G. Stephens for Wellington, Mr A. Marinovitch for Palmerston North, Mrs H. A. Webster for Auckland. Passengers who arrived, by the afternoon plane were: Miss M. Allen, Mrs J. MacKersey, and Mr F. W. Chapman from Auckland. Mr W Slowly, Mr Anderson, and Mr J. Bolt from Wellington, Mr R. Bethurst, Mr J. W. Walls, and Miss J. MacKersey from Christo tm»oh.