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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27082, 17 May 1949, Page 6

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Mr Justice Kennedy left yesterday for Invercargill to preside over the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court, which begin to-day. Mr J. S. Jack was a through passenger for the north by the express yesterday. Mr Isador Goodman, the South African pianist, is at present in Dunedin to give broadcast recitals. He will return north about May 20. Messrs J. Lochiel Cameron and George P. Shearman, of Christchurch, and A. W. Scott, of Wanganui, are at present the guests of Mr S. V. Wilson, of 16 Mitchell avenue, Mornington. All three are well-known figures in the educational world. The Boy Scouts’ Association has announced that the Governor-General, acting in his capacity as Dominion Chief Scout, had been pleased to award the Scout Association’s medal of merit and bar to Mr Henry Seddon Hills, of 11 Totara crescent, Lower Hutt, in recognition of his services to the Scout Movement. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Bishop Fitchett, a social function will -be held in St. Paul’s schoolroom on May 31, at which all parishes in the diocese will be represented, and at which His Lordship will be presented with a cheque from the diocese. Born in Christchurch in 1872, Bishop Fitchett attended school in Dunedin. He graduated B.A. from Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1898, and later received his M.a. Returning to New Zealand, the bishop was for a short time at St. Thomas’s, Wellington, and later became vicar of the parish of Dunstan. In 1911 he was appointed to St. John’s. Roslyn. and became Archdeacon of Dunedin in 1915. He was elected Bishop of Dunedin on February 20. 1934. and was consecrated on June 11 of the same year.