PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3823, 21 June 1927, Page 37

PERSONAL.

Intimation has been sent to Major W. H. Bertie, assistant commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the Otago district, to the effect that the Chapter General of the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem, has nominated Miss J. Stewart, of the Dunedin Corps, as a serving sister, and Mr Samuel M. H. Grenfell,, district superintendent at Oamaru, as a serving brother of the Order, in recognition of work carried out during a long period of years. Members of the railway head office staff asembled last week in Wellington (reports our special correspondent) to bid farewell to Mr B. A. Martis, who, after nearly 39 years’ service, is on the point of retiring on superannuation. Gifts were made to him as a mark of esteem by his fellow employees. The senior member of the Railway Board (Mr J. Mason), Mr A. W. Mouat (member of the Railway Board), and the heads of all the branches and Mr R. Hampton (secretary of the Railway Officers’ Institute) spoke, expressing regret at having to sever official relations with an officer held in such high esteem. At Tuesday’s meeting of the South Otago Hospital Board, tho chairman, Mr J. Cuming, was elected as the board’s representative on the Waipiata Sanatorium Committee for the ensuing year. O. D. Marshall Day, who has been doing post-graduate work in America at Harward University, has gained the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine. Dr Day is an old boy of Wellington College and a graduate of Otago University. The Right Rev. L. S. Kempthorne, Anglican Bishop in Polynesia, arrived at Auckland from Suva by the Tofiia, and immediately-transhipped tc H.M.S. Diomede, which left shortly afterwards for the South Sea Islands (states our special correspondent). The bishop is paying his annual visit to the outlying portions of his diocese in the Eastern Pacific, and expects to pass through Auckland on hs his return to Fiji in August. Mr A. J. M'Eldowney, who will leave Wanganui shortly for Christchurch to te’-e up the duties of general secretary of the Y.M.C.A.. was accorded a farewell function on Tuesday by the Wanganui Rotary Club, of which he has been a member for a number of years (says our correspondent) . Mr M'Eldowney rendered valuable assistance to the club, especially in thes>capacity of director of the Boys’ Wof Committee. Mr L. C. E. Hamann, formerly chief accountant of the New Zealand Government Railways, arrived in Dunedin by the Moeraki on June 10. Mr and Mrs Hamann have just completed a two years’ tour of the world, and during that time they visited the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and also spent some seven months in Europe. Mr and Mrs Hamann, who are natives of Dunedin, and who are now spending a holiday with their relatives here, intend to make their home in Auckland. They will leave Dunedin towards the end of this month. The Hospital Committee of the Otago Hospital Board has recommended that Dr Geerin be. appointed to carry out the duties of senior resident surgical officer

m addition to his present duties as epeemhst officer, until the end of the year. Ihe Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. J. Kolleston) has received advice that Commander L. V. Wells, D. 5.0., R.N., has been selected by the Admiralty to succeed Commander J. S. M. Ritchie, nv’c 'yhose term as commander of H.M.b. Diomede will expire in October. It is understood,” states the annual report of the executive of the New ZeaJpPo Returned Soldiers’ Association, “that • r Chapman will shortly re* sign his position as chairman of the War Pensions Appeal Board, and that Mr Jusship » ringer wiU occupy the chairman- « J’ L. Baldwin, son of Mr E. S Baldwin, of Wellington, has received word from the Board of Examiners that ne has been successful in passing the examination prescribed for qualification as a patent attorney. d 1!? n ? ar 1 k election of Sir Ernest Rutherford, the eminent New Zealand scientist to the presidency of the Royal number of friends entertamed Sir Ernest’s parents, Mr and Mrs James Rutherford, at the Victoria Leagua Rooms yesterday (states a New Plymouth.' Press Association message). - At Thursday’s meeting of the Otago Education Board, the following commissioners were appointed for districts which failed «i.- committees:—Messrs D. A 1s * n JA k^ ore Coast )> N - H - Gilmour) and A. M'Mdlan (Barewood). P. Wadsworth’ and J; Wilson (Houipaoa), O. T. Jones and J. Burgess (Inch Valley), and A. O. Rutherford (Matau). On the. occasion of his leaving the firm of Moncrieff and Stewart (Ltd.), by whom ho had been employed for the past eight years, Mr Colin Johnston was the recipient of a gold watch, suitably inscribed and presented by his employers, with their best wishes for success in his own busii ness. Dr O. S. Hetherington, of Thames, who' graduated from the University of Otago two years ago, has secured the position of ship’s surgeon on the Port Auckland, which left Wanganui last night for Lonv?- n ‘ intends, on arrival in the United Kingdom, to undergo a post-graduatq course at Glasgow. The following were admitted as solicit tors by his Honor, Mr Justice Sim yesterday :—Messrs Denis Calvert Muir on the motion of Mr A. H. Tonkinson ; ‘WiD ham Ralph Spencer Owen, on the motion of Mr H. H. Walker; George M‘Crea Salmond, on the motion of Mr F. B. Adams;. Thomas Adamson Kinmont, on the motion of Mr J. C. Stephens. Mr George W. Shepherd, of tho American Mission in the province of Fukien, China, called the Shaowu and Kienning Mission.. has returned to New Zealand, with his wife and three children, after an absence of 13 years. He left the employment of Messrs Paterson and Bari? (Ltd), ironmongers Dunedin, to train in Moody’s College. Chicago. From Chicago he went to China, and there married a. lady medical missionary. They expect to be m New Zealand for two months, and have accepted a furlough during the disorganisation caused by the present disturbed state of China. Mr Shepherd is residing with his father in Kaikorai Valley Mr and Mrs R. Thomson, of Mornington, left, for the north on Saturday morning with the object of catching a steamer at Wellington for San Francisco. The secretary of the Dempsey Trust hasf been advised by the Minister in charge! of hospitals that the Governor-General haa appointed Mr John Loudon as one of the trustees under section 3 of The Dempseyi Trust Act of 1892. At the last meeting of the Board of Management. of the Dunedin United Friendly Societies’. Dispensary Mr James A. Race was appointed manager in place of the late Mr A. A. Waters. Mr Race has been manager of the South Dunedin branch nf the dispensary since its incc"tion. The board appointed Mr F. H, Dolphin manager of the South Dunedin branch of the dispensary. Mr Dolphin occupied the position of first assistant at the Princes street shop. ■ Dr Rudolf Krahmann, professor of plied geology at Berlin University, and; the principal of the council of scientists who advise the Elbof Geophysical Research.' Organisation, has decided to accompany; the Elbof survey group on its mission th New. Zealand to make a complete geo* physical examination of the Waipatiki oilfield.