YOUNG MAN SCALDED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27346, 23 March 1950, Page 6

YOUNG MAN SCALDED

John Muldroon, aged 24, of the St. Kilda hostel, received steam burns to his face and left eye at tne Hillside Workshops yesterday. He was admitted to the Dunedin Public Hospital at 1 p.m., and his condition late last night was reported to he satisfactory.

has many relatives in New Zealand —at Waimate, Christchurch, Timaru and in Dunedin. . „ „ Mr Small was born in 1905 in North Berwick, where his father was minister of the Abbey Church. His grandfather, Dr Robert Small, was minister of Gilmore Place Church, Edinburgh, and his maternal grandfather was Dr James McEwen, of Sydney Place Church, Glasgow. Mr Small is a very fine scholar. Educated at North Berwick High School, he graduated in Edinburgh University in 1927, M.A., with first class honours in classics, and he was medallist in the Latin class. On entering New College in 1927, he took first place in all Scotland for the entrance scholarships, and on leaving New College he again won first place and was awarded the Senior Cunningham Fellowship'. He was awarded prizes both in New Testament and Old Testament, and he pursued his studies in Berlin, Rome and Zurich, where he was under the instruction of Emile Brunner. After an assistantship in St. Catherine’s Church, Edinburgh, under the Rev. .William Ewing. M.C., he was ordained in Bathgate in 1931. From 1935 to 1944 he was minister of West High Church, Kilmarnock, and since 1944 he has been minister of Crammond Church, Edinburgh—a very old church founded in 670 AD by the monks of St. Columba on the site of an old Roman fort. Mr Small can give an excellent lecture on these antiquities both sacred' and secular. In May, 1940, he was with a Church of Scotland hut at Amiens in the vanguard of the British Army when the collapse came, and he cycled 250 miles on an old push bicycle to St. Malo to be evacuated. He was then appointed supervisor of all the church huts in the West of Scotland, and he has taken with him to New Zealand lantern slides to enable him to lecture on the Highlands and the islands. He has also slides of the Burns country and of Edinburgh and the borders. All Scottish societies in Otago and Southland should get in touch with him: l, e is a very fluent and racy lecturer. Mr Small has many other interests. He is one of Scotland’s best-known amateur goal-keepers, and played for Scotland in the Soccer international against England in 1929. He is a wellknown speaker on temperance, and has published a pamphlet on “Alcohol and Physical Fitness.” He was leader of the Commando evangelistic campaign in Edinburgh, and when he returns to Scotland he will lead the campaign in Glasgow. He has been 30 years in the Scouts, and is Scoutmaster of the 32nd Midlothian Troop. He is a past president of the Kilmarnock Rotary Club, and is at present a member of the Edinburgh Rotary.