PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 37

PERSONAL.

Mr H. L. Gibson, transport officer. New Zealand Railways, is at present spending his annual leave in Central Otago.' The appointment of Mr Robert Conn as a member of tho Licensing Committee for Dunedin South has been gazetted. Mr Vincent H. Freeth has joined the directorate of the Jewell-Skinner Advertising Agency, and will take charge of the North Island operations of tho agency at Wellington from August 1 Mr John Cockourn, of Arthur’s Point, left by the north express on Wednesday morning to join the s.s. Niagara, en route for America, where he purposes spending a few months.

The Rev. J. T. Paddison, M.A., vicar of the Anglican parish of Kaiapoi, has been appointed to fill the vacancy as vicar of the Gore parish, caused by the retirement of the Rev. 11. S. Bishop. Mr J. Macfarlane, of the Wellington office of the Lands and Survey Department, has been apointed cashier in the Dunedin office in succession' to Mr A. E. Wogan, who has been transferred to Christchurch.

Messrs E. S. Blair, T. Cory, R. M’Caw. D. M'Corkindale, W. M'Kcnzie, and John Sinclair have been gazetted trustees of the Waitahuna Public Cemetery, and Mr John Sutherland a trustee of the East Taieri Cemetery. Mr H. E. Moller stated at tfie meeting of the Otago Harbour Board last week that members would be pleased to hear that Mr J. M‘G Wilkie, enginnor, who had been on sick leave for the past month, had now improved in health. At a meeting of the Inangahua Hospital Board last week Misses Janet M’Gechie (Dunedin), and Cochrane (Reefton), were appointed to the position of hospital matron and sister, respectively. Professor Andrew Lawson, professor of mineralogy and geology at Berkeley College, University of California, who arrived in Wellington on Wednesday, will spend a week in New Zealand before returning to Australia and America. Our special correspondent in Auckland reports that Mr Arthur Glass, of North Auckland, founder of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, was on Tuesday elected a life member of it. He started the movement at Hokianga in 1899. Mr C. F. Booth, of the Claims Department, and Mr J. D Smith, of the Overseas Passengers Department of tho Union Steam Ship Company, will leave for Vancouver by the Niagara to-day on an official tour of Canada and the United States.

A presentation was made to Mr L. Guiney in Christchurch on Wednesday by the members of the literary staff of the Lyttelton Times and Christchurch Star. Mr Guiney has accepted a position as supervisor of the athletic and sports columns of the New Zealand Herald.

Miss E. J. Hare, mistress of the Waitati School, was tendered a social prior to her departure to take up a position at the Alexandra District High School. She was presented with a gold wristlet watch by the chairman of the School Committee on behalf of the school children and her friends in the district.

Dr Miles A. Barnett, M.Sc., of the New Zealand University, who has been tudying at Cambridge, has obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Cambridge University. Dr Barnett was ’•ecent'y apjpointej physicist to the Board of Industrial and Scientific Research in New Zealand. He is a son of Sir Louis Barnett. Dr Alice Rose, who obtained her M.B. degree at the Otago University, and was awarded a travelling scholarship, later went to London, where she obtained the M.R.C.P. degree. Advice has been received that Dr Rose has been api>ointed resident, medical officer at the Kensington Infirmary, St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital. London.

Mr E. D. Andrews, the Dominion lawn tennis champion, was tendered a civjc farewell at Palmerston North prior

to' leaving on Sunday for England and Cambridge, where he will pursue his legal studies. The Mayor presided. The gathering was a representative one, and Mr Andrews was the recipient of a gold wristlet watch and a set of brushes.

Mr Gair, of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, Gore, has received advice of his transfer to Palmerston North. Professor J. Rankine Brown has been congratulated by the Professorial Board of the Otago University on securing the honorary degree or L.-J),, which has been conferred upon him by the University of St. Andrews. The motion of congratulation was passed at the last meeting of the Professorial Board.

A social gathering took place in the Taihoa Tea Rooms last Thursday night when the executives of the Anderson's Bay Ratepayers and Householders’ Association, the School Committee, and Boy Scouts mot' to bid farewell to Mr and Mrs W. M*Kay A presentation was made, and several eulogistic speeches were delivered during tho evening.

Mr Donald Cameron, of Dunedin, who was chief reporter of the Hansard staff up to the commencement of the present session of Parliament, has received a leather suit case and travelling rug from, the staff in memory of his 30 years’ connection with parliameitary reporting work. The gift was accompanied by a, letter expressing the warm regard in which Mr Cameron ,is held by his colleagues. At the last meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Athenieum, reference was made to the death of Mr 11. F. Bastings who, after 25 years of faithful service' reti. ,d by reason of ill-health. The committee was unanimous in holding that Mr Bastings had proved himself a loyal and conscientious officer, although often hampered by ill-health. He gave ungrudgingly advice and help to subscribers from his long and intimate knowledge of the works contained in the library. - Mrs P. Campbell, one of the oldest residents of Taieri Mouth, was entertained at a largely-attended function in the Public Hall on Monday week last, on the occasion of the celebration of her eighty-first birthday. Mr P. Bayne, in asking Mrs Campbell to accept from the residents a handsome Morris chair, referred to the i.iany kindly offices the recipient, in the capacity of nurse, had performed in the course of her long and active life, and expressed the hope that sh_ would long be spared to enjoy the comfort of the presentation chair.

Mr J. Caughley, formerly Director of Education, is travelling to Niue Island and thence to Samoa by the Hinemoa, which left Auckland last week. He is to act for the Education Department on behalf of the Island Administrations with the object of inspecting and supervising native education in those islands. After spending about three weeks in Samoa he will proceed to the Fiji Islands, the Government of which has arranged with the New Zealand Education Department to report regularly on tho schools for white children, and to select and classify teachers for them. Mr Caughley will be about a month in Fiji, and during that time will assist tho authorities in any way possible in regard to nativei education, both for Fijians and Indians —a, work which needs a great deal of attention and which was the subject of a Royal Commission last year. Mr Caughley expects to return Co Wellington early in October.

Mr A. V. Pearse, who for the last thred years has filled the position of supervisor of the telegraph engineer’s clerical staff at Wanganui, left for Dunedin on July 25 (reports our special correspondent) to take up a similar position in a higher grade in that city. Before leaving Mr Pearse was met by members of the engineering branch and presented with a token of good fellowship in the form of a travelling rug. In making the presentation, Mr Lye (telegraph engineer) expressed his genuine regret at losing an. officer of Mr Pearse’s calibre, and said he felt sure that the departing guest would create as good an impression in the southern city, both departmentally and socially, "ns he had created in Wanganui. Several members of allied branches of the Post and Telegraph Department expressed their regret at losing such a popular officer. Tho Public Works office at Allanlon was the scene of a pleasant function on Saturday morning, when tho members of tha staff gathered to bid farewell to Mr Ik Cabena who, after two years in tho Taieri, is returning to tho district office. In presenting a tobacco pouch to the departing officer, Mr Evans, the assistant engineer, on behalf of the staff, referred to the happy relations which had always existed between Mr Cabena and his colleagues at Allanton. Mr Percy Service, organist at St. Andrew’s Church for the past three and ahalf years, was entertained by the members of the church choir at a farewell social on Thursday evening'.' Mention was made of tho capable and obliging manner in which he had fulfilled his duties as organist, and also of the high esteem in which he is held by the choir, who showed their appreciation of his worth by presenting him with ft handsome suit case. Mr Service has accepted a business appointment in Wellington and will leave Dunedin in a few days’ time.

At its last meeting the Otago University Professorial Board passed the following resolution: —“That this board, on the occasion of Professor Pickerill’s resignation of his professorship, places on record an appreciation of his work as Dean of the Dental Faculty. His international reputation has brought distinction to the Dental School and the University, and his gift of exposition has set a high standard of teaching within the school itself. For many years the school had to work under the serious disability of inadequate accommodation and equip* inent, but he has the gratification of having procured for his school a new building. the design and appointments of which add immeasurably to its efficiency. By his going the University is deprived of an able organiser and administrator. Dr Pickerill takes with him the good wishes of this board for his success in liis new sphere.” The resolution was carried on the motion of the chairman, Professor T. I). Adams.

At a recent meeting of the congregation of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church it was unanimously decided, subject to the approval of the General Assembly Committee, to adopt Miss Violet Sutherland as the congregation’s “own” third missionary in place of Dr Edward Kirk, of China, who recently tendered his resignation. Miss Sutherland is a daughter of the Rev. R. R. M. Sutherland, of Roslyn. and has just completed her training in the Presbyterian Missionary Training, Institute, and leaves shortly for India. An arrival at Wellington by the Tamaroa last week was Mr John Yeates, a graduate of Victoria University College, who has recently taken his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Mr Yeates held an M.Sc. degree before he left for the Old Country, and was also the first-to win the Ph.D. degree of New Zealand. He gained a post graduate icholarship in science, awarded by the University of New Zealand, and while at Cambridge did research work, for which h(T was highly praised, and on. which he gained tho Cambridge degree of Doctor of Philosophy.