PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 62

PERSONAL.

Vice-Regai.. The Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) and Lady Alice Fergusson left Dunedin for the north by the first express on Wednesday. Mr R M. Stead, relieving officer of the Invercargill railway district, has been appointed stationmaster at Taihape. Dr C. J. Morkane. rector of Holy Cross Theological College, Mosgiel, has returned from a holiday visit to Australia. Mr and Mrs Arthur M. Sidey returned to Dunedin by Saturday’s express after a world tour.

Mr Justice Adams, after a brief stay at Warrington, joined the north express at Seacliff on Saturday morning on his return to Christchurch.

Sir James Mills arrived in Dunedin yesterday, and will spend a few days here. He has come to New Zealand on a holiday visic.

Sir John Henry M’Farland, chancellor of Melbourne University, arrived in Wellington with the Rev. M. Stewart on a holiday visit. Both left by the ferry steamer for the South Island.

Brother M'Allen. who has been principal of St. Patrick’s School. Oamaru, for two years, bade good-bye to his relatives in Dunedin on Thursday morning, and started for Sydney, where he was previously stationed. Mr E. V. Fairbairn, who has been asso ciated with the Standard Insurance Company for many years, has resigned his position on its staff, and has joined the staff of the Associated Investment Underwriters (New- Zealand). Ltd. Admiral M. P. O'Callaghan, a veteran who entered the Navy in 1864 and served in the Egyptian was in 1882, is cominf to New Zealand on the Rangitane, which is due at Wellington at the end of this week.

Dr Colquhoun, for 40 years professor of medicine at Otago University, arrived in Wellington by the Maunganui. Dr Colquhoun, who has been residing in the Old Country for some years, was met on his arrival by Dr Collins, M.L.C. Mr 11. J. Geddes, of Waimate. has been appointed assistant in field husbandry at the Canterbury Agricultural College. Lincoln. A four years’ student at the college, where he had a brilliant career, Mr Geddes holds the degree of B.Ag., and has sat the examination for M.Ag. Mr L. P. Hoff, who has been station master at Burkes for the past few years, and who has been transferred to Picton, went north by the mid-day express on Thursday. He was given a send-off by a number of Burkes and St. Leonards residents.

Recent callers nt the High Commissioner's Office (says our London correspondent. writing on December 10) have included: Mr Alec Regan, Mr E. Johnson. M.ss R. M. Johnson. Mr W. J. Johnson. Mr and Mis S. R. Nicol and son (Dunedin), and Professor and . Mrs Stanton Hicks (Dunedin and Adelaide).

The following transfers in the local Police Force are announced: —Detective Hart will go over to the uniformed branch, and will have charge of the Murchison Police Station: Detective Lean has been transferred to Invercargill, and Constable Williamson, of Roslyn, has been given charge of the Granity Station. Sergeant C. Petersen, of the Timaru Police Force, has received word of his transfer to Blenheim, to take charge of that area. His place in Timaru will be filled by Sergeant G. Bonisch, of Wellington. Sergeant Petersen has been in Timaru five years. Another police transfer is that of Constable K-earney, Temuka. to Cobden. Mr James Newell has retired from the position of New- Zealand manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. Ltd., after 40 years' service. 11’3 will take a seat on tire directorate at Auckland. filling the vacancy caused through the death last year of Mr H. B. Morton. Mr G. N. Worledge has been appointed to succeed Mr Newell as New Zealand manager.

The members of the Otago Electric Power Board and the staff met in the board's office on Tuesday to honour Mr J. Dcnford, secretary of the board, on the eve of his approaching marriage. Mr D. Boyd (chairman) wished Mr Denford every happiness in his future life, and presented him with a clock on behalf of the board and staff. Messrs W. B. Galloway. F. Carson, and J. C. Collins also spoke, after which Mr Denford suitably replied. Viscount and Viscountess Craigavon. who are spending a few days at the Hermitage. Mount Cook, will leave there on Sunday, January 26, for Timaru and Lyttelton, and will arrive in Wellington on January 29. They will motor to Masterton that day and will stay there till February 3. when they will leave for Palmerston North. Returning to Wellington on February 4. Viscount and Viscountcss Craigavon will leave for Home by the Rangitata on February 8. The London Times, on December 10, in referring to the death of Bishop Cleary, emphasises his great gifts as an organiser and journalist, and his keen interests in social questions, particularly temperance, upon which his views were strongly prohibitionist in character. “ But, as Mark Twain discovered.” The Times proceeds.

” he was the most humane and genial of men. and he had a wide range of friends, extending beyond the orders of his own communion, which loses in him one of its leading figures in New Zealand.”

Mr E. A. Eva, of Sydney, Australian representative of the White Star Line and the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi last week on his way to visit relatives in the South Island. Mr Eva. who is a New Zealander, was formerly manager in Australia for the Australian Commonwealth Line, and later its general manager in London. In the latter capacity he sat as a member of the Imperial Shipping Committee. He took up his present position when the Commonwealth Government disposed of its steamer service. He has not been in the Dominion for some 20 years. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland resounded on Friday morning to the strains of the grand old Gregorian music when the Month’s Mind for Bishop Cleary took place, solemn pontificial requiem mass being celebrated in the presence of an overflowing congregation of clergy and

laity. The celebrant of the requiem mass was Dr Whyte, Bishop of Dunedin. The Rev. J. Spillane, S.M., was deacon, and the Rev. W. J. O’Doherty sub-deacon; All the clergy of the diocese and some priests from other parts of New Zealand were present, together with “ religious ”, of the various Roman Catholic institutions.