PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3774, 13 July 1926, Page 27

PERSONAL ITEMS.

On her transference from LbVell s Flat School to the position as assistant teacher at Milburn School, lAiss A. Anderson was tendered a valedictory social by the residents of Lovell’s Flat and the pupils of the school. She was presented by the parents with a handsome travelling rug \nd electric torch, and the pupils showed appreciation of their departing teacher by presenting her with a handsome brush and comb. A Press Association message from Wellington states that Sir James Carroll is reported to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery. Mr F. J. Earle has been appointed to the position of managing editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Mr C. Ive, who has left the staff of the Southland Times to join the New Zealand Herald staff in Auckland, went north by the through express on Tuesday last. Mr F. J. Marshall, who has been a member of the literary staff of the Wellington Evening Post for 25 years, has been appointed Chief Sub-editor in succession to the late Mr W. J. Guerin. Private advice has been received at Wellington that Sir James Allen will leave England on August 8, accompanied by his son Charles, and will arrive early in September. Lady Allen and the rest of the family will leave a little later. A’ motion congratulating the Hon. Sir Charles Statham. Mr H. L. Tapley, C.M.G., Mr J. Sutherland Ross, C.M.G., and Mr C. Speight, C.8.E., the local recipients of hirthday honours, was passed at the monthly meeting of the Green Island Council. A similar motion was passed at the last meeting of the West Harbour Borough Council. Mr J. W. Bain, of the Magistrate’s Court staff at Gore, will shortly take up his new duties in the Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, in place of Mr F. W. Haines, who has been transferred to the -Supreme Court Office, vice Mr T. Kane, who was recently transferred to Stratford. The Southland Electric Power Board is about to lose its chief engineer, Mr H. P. Thomas, who has been appointed to the position of superintending engineer to the hydro-electric branch of the Public Works Department in India. Mr Thomas (reports our correspondent) has been responsible for the carrying out of the constructional work in connection with the. Southland power Bcheme. and prior to this he was engaged in similar work in both Canada and Victoria. It is understood that the initial work which Mr Thomas will bo required to undertake in his new position will be the construction of a 40,000 k.w. plant to supply the city of Lahore, and also to provide power for a vast system of feeders over a wide tract of rich agricultural country in the valley of the Tndus. Mr Thomas’s resignation was received with sincere regret bv the members of the board at their monthly meeting, and he was heartily congratulated on securing such an important appointment. Mr G. W. Thomson, an associate of the Otago School of Mines, has been appointed general manager of the Taio Gold Mining Co. (Limited), at Taio, Japan. An Auckland Press Association telegram reports that Captain W. F. Norbury, master of the Northern Company’s steamer Manaia. which was wrecked recently, has been appointed mostev of the company’s steamer NgapuhL

Prior to his departure for the Home Country, the Rev. Thomas Cunningham (son of Mr P. Cunningham, Wyllie s Crossing, Mosgiel), was bade farewell by the Mosgiel Catholics. Mr Cunningham commenced his studies for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel and then proceeded to Sydney, where he has studied for the past two years. He is now on his way to Dublin to complete his course. Before setting out for the latter place, he yisited his home, and his many friends took advantage of the opportunity to present him with a travelling rug. On behalf of the congregation, the Rev. Dr O'Neill made the presentation. He was supported in his remarks by the Rev. Dr Morkane (rector of Holy Cross College), and by several members of the congregation. Mr Cunningham suitably acknowledged the gift and the kindness shown to nim by the Mosgiel people. Ou-r London correspondent, writing on June 5, reports that Mr J. C. Stephens (Dunedin) reached England by the Argyllshire, which, owing to the coal strike, was deviated to Norfolk, Virginia, instead of further coaling at Colon. The passengers naturally made the best use of the several days thus unexpectedly placed at their disposal. The voyage Was undertaken by Mr Stephens mainly on account of his health, which, his friends will be glad to hear, has much improved. Presently Mr Stephens will go to Cornwall. At the last meeting of the Otago and Southland Operative Tailors and Shop Tailoresses Union the president (Mr Darling) on behalf of the Invercargill, Oamaru, and Dunedin branches of the union, presented the secretary, Mr R. C. Wilson, with a handsome hand-painted flower bowl and vase, and in doing so referred to the highly satisfactory manner in which the recipient had carried out his duties during his long term of office extending over 4tJ years. His conciliatory manner had made him respected not only by the operatives but also by the master tailors throughout Otago and Southland. The gift had been voluntarily subscribed to and was given by the members as an expression of their goodwill towards Mr Wilson. Mr Wilson, in responding, thanked the members for their kind expressions of appreciation. He had always been a strong advocate of conciliation, and had striven to foster a conciliatory spirit between master and man, and he believed that he could truthfully say that in no other part of the Dominion was there to be found the same friendly spirit that existed in Otago and Southland between the master tailors and the operatives. Mrs Nicholson has been appointed matron of Pleasant Valley Sanatorium in place of Miss Neil, who has resigned from the post. Mr Norman Cameron, of Dunedin, son of the late Dt Andrew Cameron, has been accepted for service with the New Zealand branch of the Sudan United Mission in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, some hundreds of milo3 to the south-west of Khartoum. Mr Cameron has considerable teaching experience and medical knowledge that is certain to be of great value to him in this field of work. He will probably be sailing for Egypt by the Chitral, which' is due to leave Melbourne on October 12.

A Press Association telegram from Christchurch reports that Mr P. Selig and his daughter, Mrs Oscar Josephon, will leave Auckland on August 3 by the Aorangi for Vancouver, whence they will journey to New York. Mr Selig has accepted an invitation from Dr Walter Williams, president of the World’s Press Congress, to join the delegation leaving New York by the Carmania for Havre, thence to Geneva, where the congress sessions will be held from September 14 to September 18. Afterwards the party will tour the Continent, and will then return to London for a wepk of official ceremonies and entertainment in connection with the congress. Mr E. H. Miller, formerly of the staff of the Southland Times, and for the past eight months employed on the reporting 6taff of the Otago Daily Times, was met on Saturday. July 10, by the reporting staffs of the local newspapers and presented with a silver-mounted walking stick prior to his departure for Christchurch, where he will take up a position on the Christchurch Sun. As a tribute to the efficient manner m which Mr F. J. Lough carried out the work of lighting Logan Park, and in particular the Grand Court, at the Exhibition, Mr Edmund Anscombe (Exhibition architect) has presented Mr Lough with a handsome paper weight of green stone and gold, designed in the form of a model of the Festival Hall. The memento, which was made locally by Messrs Moller and Sons, bears the inscription: “An appreciation of services rendered as electrical engineer to the New Zealand and South Seas Exxhibition 192526.” In an accompanying letter Mr Anscombe congratulated Mr Lough on the conscientious and diligent workmanship which resulted in such a scheme of electric lighting, and which had excited the admiration of all who beheld it.