PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 31

PERSONAL.

Sir George Clifford is at present a patient m the Lewisham Hospital Christchurch.

Mr Gordon Grant, at present on the staff of the Temuka District High School, lias been appointed assistant master at the Waimataitai School, Timaru. Mr and Mrs James Brown left Dunedin by Thursday morning’s express, en route for Sydney, where they expect to remain for about two months.

Mr S. W. Anderson, of the Union Steam Ship Company’s Dunedin office staff (passenger department) has been transferred to the company’s Sydney office. A cablegram from London states that the late Mr Frederic Lubbock, ex-chair-man of the London board of the Bank of New Zealand, left £30,014. Mr P. \\ . Aitken, AI.Sc., a graduate of Otago University, left Dunedin on Tuesday morning for Wellington to join the staff of the Department of Industries and Scientific Research. Mr R. Al. Campbell, of the Prime Minister’s secretariat, will leave for England shortly, via America. He intends to study at the London School of Economies, and for that purpose has been granted leave of absence for two years.

Dr Norman Speight, who has been in England for the purpose of post-graduate study, and whose last appointment was at the Middlesex Hospital, returned to Dunedin by the express on Saturday. Sir Joseph Ward, who has been confilled to his home with a severe cold since his return from Australia, has now recovered, and resumed his seat in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Constable Al’Pherson, a member of the police force at the Central Station in Dunedin, has been transferred to Gore. On the eve of his departure he was presented by his late comrades with a travelling rug. 11m election of three members of the Uui i ersity Entrance Board bv members of the Academic Board resulted in the return of Professors Seagar (Auckland), Thompson (Dunedin), and Wall (Christchurch). Air Allan Bell, the member for the Bay of Islands, was not in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (telegraphs our parliamentary reporter), and leave of absence on the ground of serious illness was obtained on his behalf. He is suffering from congestion of the lungs. Air C. E Carr, manager of the Auckland branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, has been transferred on promotion to Brisbane, and will leave to tr e up duties in September. Mr M. J. H. Bradbury, of Alelbourne, Has been appointed to' succeed Air Carr in Auckland.

Our London correspondent, writing on x xt 1 ’ T A ta , tes that r ecent Dunedin callers “J t m Commissioner's office included Mr I. Jenkins, Airs E. G. Shelmerdine, Mr and Airs P. 11. Smith. Aliss Smith, Dr Alice C. Rose, Air and Airs C. Barling, Dr 11. Malden Fitzgerald, and the Kev. Cecil J. Morkane (Mosgiel). The Education Board has made the following appointments:—Mr John Campbell, head master, Weston; Aliss I. Al. Barron, infant mistress, Alacandrew Koacl; Miss E. R. Macdonald, second assistant, Clinton; Aliss E. P. Dunn, second assistant, Sawyers’ Bay; Aliss A. C. Anderson, assistant. Lovell's Flat. J ? ir Or J° departure on transfer to Wellington, Mr R. Al’Gregor, clerk at Kanturly railway station, was the recipient of a gold-mounted fountain pen and gold-mounted eversharp pencil from the staff. Air 1 etrie (stationmaster), in making the presentation, voiced the good wishes of all concerned for Air Al'Gregor’s future m the service.

General Sir Andrew Russell, the Dominion president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers Association, will visit the Otago dictriet this week. He will meet ex-service men in Dunedin, and the local association is endeavouring to arrange visits to country branches. Sir Andrew will visit Wannate to-day, and Gore on r riday.

J'' F-’ "d‘ o has been connected with the New Zealand Loan and Alercantile Agency Company for several years past as internal. auditor, has joined Air iTT Al- .Bowden, public accountant, '' ellington, in partnership. At a pleasant \aledictory .function j\lr J) ass was presented by his colleagues with a handsome token of their esteem. . officers were elected ?i? r . Ip 2 '-28 at the conference of the •technical Education Association of New Zealand:—President, Mr H. S. W. King (Auckland); vice-president. Air J. R Kirk (Gisborne); secretary, Mr ’G. J. Park (Auckland); executive—Messrs T Scott (Dunedin), Al’Gregor Wright (Christchurch), W. F. Durward (Palmerston North), J. H. Reed (Invercargill). The Rev. H. O. Fenton, who lately left Anderson's Bay for the Homeland, has accepted a position at All Saints’, Upper Norwood, England, where he worked for nearly 10 years before coming out to Dunedin. Air Fenton has recently won the lantern lecture competition at the Royal Ihotographic Society. The chairman of the committee said the slides were of a quality very rarely seen nowadays.

At the conclusion o f the clearing sale at Airs Paterson’s at Toiro recently, a substantial purse was handed to Airs Patcr?°n «s a mark of the esteem in which she is held by her many friends. Airs Paterson, in replying, expressed thanks fo r the handsome present, and her gratitude to the manager, directors, and local agents of the Otago Farmers Co-operative Association tor their consideration during her residence in the district.

At a meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board last week Air Cyrus J. R. Williams, engineer, secretary, and tieasurer of the board, said he proposed, with the board’s approval, to retire on the presentation and passing of the accounts for the year ending September 30. ft the board were willing to avail itself of his services in an advisory capacity after that date, he would bo pleased to act as its consulting engineer for five years on receipt of a small commission. Visitors to the late Exhibition will be interested to learn that Mr F. J. Ricketts composer of “Colonel Bogey,” the famous march familiar to nearly every soldier during the war, is to be bandmaster of the Royal Marines Depot at Deal. For nearly 29 years conductor of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Band, Air Ricketts took over his new appointment last month Known in the musical

world as Kenneth Alford, ho is also tho composer of the popular medley “The Lightning Switch.” Mr William Epps, tho well-known secretary of Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, has been deputed to attend on behalf of his Slate the great convention to be held in Detroit, United Stales, in October next, under the auspices of tho American College of Surgeons and Hospitals. He will reach Wellington on the 11th inst. by the Alakura, and will proceed by that vessel to San Francisco. Air Epps is a veteran journalist, having served on the staffs of the Dunedin Star, the Evening Post, the Sydney Telegraph, and the Alorniug Herald. Writing on July 1, our London correspondent states that Air and Airs J. Sutherland Ross (Dunedin) attended the annual service at St. Paul’s Cathedral of the Order of St. Aliehael and St. Geor —, of which Air Ross was made a Companion a year ago. So far their time has been spent mostly in London and in Devonshire with Mrs Ross's mother, Mrs Inkster, who lives at Totnes. Air and Airs Ross have now left London for Caithness, where Sir John Ross spent his boyhood. When they return to New Zealand by the Tainui at the end of July they will be accompanied by Airs and Aliss Inkster, who are going out on a visit to the Dominion.

Air T. R. Cresswell, head master of the Wellington College, has asked the Board of Governors to relieve him of his duties for health reasons (says our special correspondent in Wellington). The resignation takes effect early next year. Mr Cresswell was educated at the Christchurch Boys’ High School and Canterbury College, taking his ALA. with honours in .1891. Before taking up the position of principal of he Wellington College he was senior inspector of secondary schools. Air Cresswell has always taken a keen interest in sport, particularly cricket, and he was a representative footballer. lie is also a keen Territorial officer, and holds the 12 and 16 years’ long service medals and the officers’ decoration for 20 years’ efficient service. At the meeting of the Mataura Presbytery on Tuesday, the following resolution regarding the work at Tapanui of the Rev. S. E. Hill was passed:—“On the occasion of the transfer of Mr Hill from the parish of Tapanui to that of Ellerslie. Auckland, the presbytery places on record its high appreciation of the work done by him during his pastorate of 104 years. As moderator of the session he was diligent and careful in directing the affairs of the congregation. His many high qualities were especially manifest in the manner in which h c filled the office of presbytery clerk during the later years of his ministration in the Mataura Presbytery. The presbytery wishes him an abundantly successful ministry in his new sphere of work.”

A number of the old employees of the St. George Preserving Company paid a surprise visit to “Cranmore, Rosfyn. on Thursday evening to congratulate and to convey to Air Stevenson, senior, their hearty good wishes on the attainment of hi's seventy-first birthday. The visitors were cordially received by Mr and Mrs Stevenson and family, and after a pleasant time spent in reviewing the progress of the company. Air G. APBeath, in an appropriate speech presented Mr Stevenson with a very hand-

some gold albert and smoker’s outfit, and Airs Stevenson with a handbag as a slight appreciation of their interest in the welfare of the employees. The recipients suitably responded. The good feeling existing between the management and the staff was shown by the fact that some of those present have been with the firm and company for terms ranging from 40 years. The Rev. Father Alorkane, of Alosgiel, spent Easter in Jerusalem and then motored through Palestine and Sysia to Damascus and Bey rout. From Bey rout he travelled by steamer to Constantinople, calling at Rhodes, Cypris, Smyrna, etc. From Constantinople he went via Athens to Brindisi. A month was spent in Rome, and during that time Air Alorkane attended the tercentenary celebrations of the Urban College of Propaganda Fide, where he was educated, and then a tour was made of the north of Italy, Switzerland, and France. Mr Alorkane arrived in London about the middle of June (writes our correspondent), and ho intends spending some weeks in England and Ireland. Later he will go to the United States, and after staying there for a considerable time, hc will probably return to New Zealand, via Vancouver, at tho end of the year. Air W. 11. Gould has been appointed to fill the zacant chair of education at Victoria University College, a position which has been vacant since Alay, 1926, when Professor Tennant retired. Applications were called for from all over the British Empire, but the council decided that Mr Gould was the best qualified of all those who had applied. He had acted temporarily in that capacity. Air Gould, who is an ALA. of the University of New Zealand, has had a long experience in educational matters from the primary schools upwards. For some time he was an inspector of primary schools, and for two years he was Director of Education in Tonga. Regarding Tonga, lie prepared a valuable report which was subsequently adopted with modifications for use in Samoa and other Pacific islands. In 1919 he became assistant director of the Wellington Training College, assuming his present position as its head four years ago.

The new general secretary of the Wellington Y.ALC.A., Mr 1,. J. Greenberg, is stated to.have a fine record in regard to war services. He embarked for war service in February, 1916, served for three and a-half years with the 14th and 15th Infantry Brigades. sth Australian Division, and Australian Corps Headquarters in Egypt, France, and Belgium. He became representative in charge of all Australian Y.AI.C.A. work in the forward zones of the Western front, and second in charge of the general France work with the A.1.F., holding the rank of captain. Mr Greenberg was commended in the field by General Sir J. Talbot Hobbs for gallantry under shell fire, and later received tho Order of the British Empire. On returning to Australia, he was the Y.ALC.A. representative chosen to attend Federal Parliament House Melbourne, to receive the thanks of Parliament for work performed by the Australian associations during the war.

The Ven. Archdeacon John Awdry Julius, who has accepted the office of Dean of Christchurch, will take over his new duties on the retirement of Dean Carrington about November. Archdeacon Julius, who is a son of Archbishop Julius,

received his ecclesiastical education in the Old Country. Canterbury has been the centre of bis activities during the past 2C years, and he has held various charges. Hc was born at Southbrent, Somerset, in 1874, and subsequently left the Homeland with his father for Australia, where be was educated at the Alelbourne Grammar School. When his father was appointed Bishop of Christchurch his studies were transferred to Christ's College, which he attended for three years. Returning to England, he gained his B.A. degree at Keble College, Oxford, and his ALA., in 1903. He was consecrated a deacon in 1897, and in the following year was ordained a priest. On his return to Christchurch he held several charges, until he became Archdeacon of Timaru and Westland in 1922. Archdeacon Julius's career has been a mest distinguished one.