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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 24

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that the Anthropological Institute has awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal to Sir Baldwin Spencer in recognition of his researches in the ethnology of Australian aboriginals.

Miss Phyllis Johnston has been appointed junior laboratory assistant in the pathological department of ’ the Otago University.

Mr 11. Hart is visiting the West Coast and Franz Josef Glacier. He will return by way of the West Coast towns. Nelson and Blenheim. He expects to be absent about three weeks.

Appreciation of the services of Mr Wil liam Scott, employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court, who is to retire shortly, was expressed in Christchurch on the 13th by representatives of the various interests connected with the court (says our special correspondent). The speakers were Messrs R. T. Bailey (officer in charge of the Labour Department), W. Cecil Prime (representing the Canterbury Employers’ Association), F. R. Cooke (for the Trades Hall secretaries), and Mr W. J. Hunter (representing the legal profession). Mr Justice Frazer said he would say goodbye to Mr Scott at another function in Wellington. In reply. Mr Scott recalled his connection «ith the court ever since the Act of 1894 had brought it into existence. He added that he had been the employers’ representative on the court .since 1909.

The announcement is made (reports our special correspondent in Wellington) of the resignation of Mr Vivian T. Fail of his position as forest assistant of the State Forest Service for the purpose of taking the post of forestry administrator and New Zealand manager of the plantations of-' the Afforestation Proprietary Company, Ltd., Melbourne. This company is engaged in the afforestation of 25.000 acres of pumice land near Taupo, and Mr Fail will take up his new position on the first of next month. The retiring officer, who has had an extensive experience both in the native forest and afforestation branches of the State Forest Service, is also a licensed surveyor. Born in Dunedin in 1898, Mr Fail gained his survey experience in private practice and in the city engineer’s office, Dunedin, followed by service in the Public Works Department

in the forested country of Southland. Mr Fail joined the State Forest Service in 1921, and was attached to the central office staff, Wellington. Ho has been intimately associated with the layout and development of the State’s artificial forests, and has been in charge of extensive reconnaissance surveys' of areas. The retiring officer takes from the State Forest Service a detailed knowledge of the areas under its control, a knowledge which has been acquired by extensive travelling and work in the various conservation regions, coupled with administrative experience. Sister B. Taylor, of Dunedin Hospital, has received the bursary for post-graduate training for nurses to be held in Wellington. Mr W. O. M'Kellar, inspector for the National Mortgage and Agency Company, has been nominated by the stock and station agents as their representative on the Rural Intermediate Credits Board. Th Otago cricket coach. Mr L. Eastman, left on his return to England by the through express for th e north on Wednesday, and was given a send-off by a large number of cricketers. Mr Eastman will return to Dunedin in October. Mr W N. Satterthwaite, of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, left by the through express on Wednesday on a business trip to England, the Continent, and the East.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner s Office, London, have included Mr and Mrs W. Henderson, Mr E. R. Stallard, and Miss E. M. Forsyth, all of Dunedin.

Professor Park and Mr s Park will leave Dunedin to-day on a visit to England. they will be away from the Dominion tor about a year. Mr Albert G. Greene, of Dunedin, has been appointed manager of Edward Branscombe’s Westminster Glee Singers for their coming tour of Canada and America (writes our London correspondent), and he left England in the middle of February for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mr Bianscombe and Mr Circene are well known in New Zealand, and th« latter will be remembered by many ex-service men as the basso with " The Kiwis ” in France. A party of Central Otago farmers, consijting of Messrs Hector Gibson, Victor Jolly, and Edmund Stokes, left for a trip to. Australia by the through express on Thursday. They ftitend to take particular interest in the condition of stock in the various States.

Dr J. E. Russell, dean emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University (U.S.A.), who has been visiting Dunedin, left for Wellington by the through express on Thursday.

Mr G. M. Thomson, M.L.C., 1 :ft Dunedin on Thursday morning for the North Island, where he expects to spend about three weeks. Among the places which he will visit are Gisborne, Opotiki, and Hawera.

The Otago Education Board has made the following appointments:— Mr W. D. Sinclair, sole teacher, Otekura; Mr G. C. Harre, first assistant, Ravensbourne; Miss B. M. Patterson, second assistant, Lawrence.

Mr W. F. Sedgebeer, of Sydnev, i s ore a visit to Dunedin, and is staying at the Carlton Hotel.

Mr Ernest Wilson, factorv representative for Messrs Spear and Jackson, Ltd., and Joseph Rodgers and Sons, Ltd., of Sheffield, is visiting Dunedin for a few days.

Miss Doris Symes, the well-known Wanganui contralto, who has met with excellent success in manv places where she has sung, has left Wanganui, en route for the Sydney Conservatorium, where she will continue her studies.

Sir Douglas Mawson and Messrs Leigh Hunt and II Vickennan arrived in Dunedin on Friday afternoon from the north. They are proceeding to Lake Manapouri, where Sir Douglas will :n--snect the property of the New Zealand Hydro-electric Concessions for the purpose of drawing up a report to the directors as to the possibility of extracting nitrates from +he air with the water-power available in the locality.

Mr E. P. Aiderman. 8.A., has arrived in Dunedin from Sydnev to become lecturer at the Church of Christ College, North-East Valley, and minister of the South Dunedin Church of Christ. Mr Aiderman is a graduate of the Glen Iris Theological College, Melbourne, and of the Brisbane University. He has had a distinguished career as student and preacher, and has taken a prominent part in the work of his church in Queensland. He held the positions of conference secretary, home mission organiser, and president of the young people’s department. Mr G. W. Forbes, leader of ch® Nationalist Party, and Mr A. E. DavcVj organiser of the United Political Party' who were at Winton on Friday night-, went through to Christchurch by the second express on Saturday.

Mr ’R. Heatley, private secretary to Judge Ayson, Commissioner at Rarotonga, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Sir William Hall-Jones, M.L.C., left by the Mataroa on Sunday on a trip to the Old Country. He expects to lie away from New Zealand about six months. A telegram from Christchurch announces the death of Mr L. A. Stringer, registrar of Canterbury College, in his fifty-eighth year. The late Mr Stringer was educated m Christchurch. and for a number of vears was an officer in the Government Valuation Department. In ISOB he left the Government service to become town clerk of Sumner, and later, he occupied a similar position at Lyttelton. He was appointed registrar of Canterbury College on the retirement of Mr G. H. Mason in 1919.