PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 37

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Senator J. D. Millen and Mr Edmund S. Paul have accepted seats on the Board of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association (Limited), in place of Messrs G. W. Rapley and P. R. Higgins, who have resigned. Mr Edric J. Liddell Kelly, of the Christchurch branch of J. Hott (Ltd.), who has been transferred to the firm’s Dunedin branch, arrived by the second express on Thursday to take over his new duties. For the past year or two Mr Kelly has been prominent in connection with amateur theatricals in Christchurch. Professor Geisler, of Sydney, and Messrs Herman and Paul Haege have been on holiday to Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri. The Finance Committee is recommending that his Worship the Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley, M.P.) and the Chairman of the Works Committee (Cr J. Wilson) be appointed the council’s delegates to the next Municipal Conference, to be held at Palmerston North on February 9. The town clerk (Mr G. A. Lewin) is also to accompany the ‘delegates. Mr and Mrs C. R. Chapman, who have been on a world’s tour extending over 18 months, have returned to Dunedin. Mr R. L. Woodhouse, a promient Auckland business man and well known in this city, was a passenger by the Moeraki, en route to Great Britain. Mrs Woodhouse accompanies her husband. Our Cromwell correspondent reports that Mr D. C. Jolly will shortly sever his connection with the firm of Jolly and Sons and will be leaving the district in about two months’ time. Mr Jolly has been a well-known and greatly-esteemed resident of Cromwell for many years, and has a fine record of service on behalf of the district. In addition to holding the position of Mayor for some years, he has been closely connected with all movements and societies for the welfare of the community. Mr Percy S. Crisp, who has been appointed editor .of the Auckland Sun, which will start publication shortly, has relinquished his position as editor of the Christchurch Sun. He was the recipient of a set of desk requisites and a brier ’pipe from the literary staff. Mr M. E. Lyons, chief reporter, who made . the presentation, referred to Mr Crisp’s successful journalistic career during the seven years he had been with the Sun, and the staff’s pride in his achievement.

Mr A. Amies, who -has been the Dominion manager of the A.M.P. Society for the past nine years, will shortly go on six months' leave prior to retirement from the service (reports our special correspondent at .Wellington). He will be succeeded by Mr F. F. M'Bryde, at present manager in Queensland, who is due to take over on February 1. Mr W. J. Harland has been advanced to the position of sub-manager. Mr C. M'Donald becomes chief clerk, and Mr W. R. Hickson accountant.

A Sydney Sun cable from London states that Archbishop Julius intends leaving shortly for New Zealand. 'Mr Frank Oakden, at one time manager of the Milburn Lime and Cement Company, who now resides in Sydney, arrived on a visit to Dunedin by the first express on Tuesday. Miss jean Fergusson, daughter of Admiral Sir James Fergusson, had a painful fall at Government House (reports our special correspondent in Auckland), fracturing bones in both feet, besides receiving other injuries. She is progressing as well, as can be expected. The professor of obstetrics at the Sydney University (Professor J. C. Windeyer) arrived in Auckland by the Marama and will later proceed to Dunedin to attend the medical conference (reports our special correspondent). Professor Windeyer said he was looking forward to seeing in practice some of the work carried out by Sir Truby King, although he pointed out that he was chiefly concerned with pre-natal work whereas Sir. Truby King specialised in ante-natal activities.

Mr John Fuller arrived at Auckland on Tuesday by the Marama (reports our special corespondent). It is his intention to make arrangeemnts for the erection of a large theatre in Auckland to replace the Opera House which was partially destroyed by fire in December. Mr Fuller stated that he did not know where the proposed theatre would be built. It was possible, he said, that the old site in Wellesley street might be used. In any case he had come to Auckland to make the fullest investigations. Private advice has been received by Mr Bert Royle from Messrs J. and N. Tait> the firm he represents in New. Zealand (states our special Wellington correspondent), that definite arrangements had been made for tours of the Dominion during the first half of the present year of Ignace Paderswski, the eminent. Polish pianist, and Jascha Heietz, the brilliant Russian violinist, two of the world’s supreme artists. Mr George L. . Gardiner has been appointedfirst assistant at the Tokomairiro District High School. A message from Port Said states that Sir Neville Howse, the Commonwealth Minister of Defence, who is returning from England, landed there and was taken to hospital suffering from pneumonia. His conditions is serious.

Miss Hilda Taylor has been appointed to the position of physical and sports .Mistress in the Otago Girls’ High School. Miss Taylor, who is a recent arrival fro:a England, took her physical training course at the University College, Reading. IShe is also a qualified teacher. Before owning to New Zealand she was games mistress for three years in a girls’ school with over 300 pupils. She is at present on the staff of Queen Margaret College, Wellington. • Mr T. P. Mills has received notice of his permanent appointment to the Prisons Department at Wellington (reports our special correspondent). Mr Mills will carry out the duties of probation officer for the Wellington district, and will be engaged exclusively in this work. He has acted as local probation officer for some time past in conjunction with other duties, but, in accordance with a recent decision, the probation officers in the four chief centres are to give their whole time to the probation work of the Prisons Department. Mr Bernhard Baron, of Hove, Sussex, managing director of Carreras (Ltd.), last menth again made a long list of contributions, totalling £25,000 to hospitals and other philanthropic institutions in celebration of his 76th birthday on December 5. He also made a personal present of an extra week’s wages and a birthday cake to every one of the 2500 employees of Carreras (Ltd.). He has also purchased a large house and grounds at Brighton, which he is having equipped as a convalescent home for the employees of Carreras (Ltd.), so that any who fall ill may be able to enjoy every opportunity for recovery under ideal conditions. In distributing his gifts, Mr Baron aims at making no distinction of creed, but is endeavouring to help those whose object is to relieve suffering and need. A Zeehan paper reports the proceedings at a gathering at which the members of the council, instructors, and students of the Zeehan School of Mines met at the school to say farewell to Mr H. G. Black, who has been director for four years and a-half. Mr H. G. Black, who is an exDunedinite, is returning to this city to fill an important position as lecturer in the Otago University. The chair at the farewell gathering at Zeehan was occupied by another ex-Dunedinite, Mr A. D. Sligo, who. said Mr Black had done his duty loyally to the school and the students—no one could have been more sincere, and his heart and soul had been in his work. On behalf of the council, instructors, and students, who desired to hear well of him in his future, and who felt sure he would make good with the council of the Otago University, Mr Sligo asked Mr Black to accept a travelling bay and rug. A tribute to the services rendered by Mr Black at Zeehan was offered also b- other -eakers. 'Mr James Fletcher, who has been on a business visit to Dunedin, returned north by the express on Saturday, en route to Wellington. Mr J. Sutherland Ross, who has been on a business visit to Auckland, returned to Dunedin by the first express from the north on Saturday. Mr A. J. Anderson, lately assistant accountant at the Wellington branch of the Public Trust Office, has been appointed accountancy instructor at the office training classes in Christchurch. Dr V. E. Galway was a passenger by the second express for the north on Saturday, en route to Auckland to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Society of Musicians.

The Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley, M.P.), left yesterday by the second express en route to Auckland. He will return to Dunedin at the end of the week. A cable message from London states that Alexander Cormack Jessup, a Waitaki High School boy. has shared second prize in the Colonial Institute essay competition. Mr Adam Ritchie (Aberdeen, Scotland) arrived in Dunedin by the .first express from the north on Saturday. Mr Ritchie, who is a brother of Mr Thomas Ritchie, general manager of Messrs Chas. Begg and Co. (Ltd.), is on a holiday visit to New Zealand.

Mr James Hislop, Under-secretary to the Department of Internal Affairs, accompanied by Mr D. Ardell, left for Pembroke, via Cromwell, yesterday morning, to make arrangements for the accommodation of the Duke and Duchess of York and party. The members of the Railways Board— Messrs F. J. Jones. James Mason, R. T. Dent, W. R Davidson, S. W. Robertson, and N. S. Duckworth, who have been on a departmental visit of. inspection of the Otago and Southland railways, left for the north by special train yesterday. A Timaru message states that Mr W. E. Kinnerney, for many years a member of the firm of Messrs Perry, Perry, and Kinnerney, solicitors, died on Saturday morning, aged 72 years. The deceased was born at Wexford, Ireland, in 1854, and came to New Zealand in 1862. He was a recognised authority on municipal, harbour board, and banking law. A London cablegram dated January 21 states: Sir James Parr will go to Paris on Saturday to take Lady Parr to the Riviera, where she will spend a few weeks’ convalescence. Sir James Parr will return to London next week. FOUND DEAD. A married man, named Frank 11. Hall, 56 years of age, was found dead in an outhouse at the Southland Hospital at about 11 p.m. on Saturday night. He had been engaged as a dispenser at the hospital for the past four years.