PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 20

PERSONAL.

Mr H. K. Wilkinson has left Dunedin on a tour of the Pacific islands. .Mr C. 11. Wing has been appointed the official organiser of the National Democratic Party of New Zealand. Mr G. A. Lamb has been appointed representative in the South Island for Eastern and Overseas Products, Ltd., Tooley street, London. Mr B. C. A. M'Cabe has received appointment to the position of Chief Surveyor and Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands for Southland.

Mr A. O. Heany, who was formerly on the literary staff of the Dominion, has been appointed organising secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr P. C. Carman, a graduate ot Otago University, was a passenger by the through express on Thursday, en route for London, where he proposes to further his studies iu engineering chemistry. Miss F. 11. Beal, of the local staff of the Labour Department, has been appointed inspector of factories in this district. Miss Beal will replace Miss M. S. Hale, who retired last year on superannuation.

Dr K. R. Steenson, who for the past three years has been medical oflicer in the British Solomon Islands, left on Tuesday, after spending portion of his leave in Dunedin, to take up a similar position in he Gilleut Islands. Dr Steenson is a graduate of the Otago University. Mr P. C. Carman, of Otago University, left Wellington for Sydney on Saturday, en route to London, where he is to take tip research work at the London University for two years, having been awarded the 1851 Exhibition science scholarship. He is a son of Mr A. C. Carman, of Invercargill, formerly of \\ ellington. Mr B. Cochran, manager of the Timaru branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for the past five years, has received notice of his transfer to the position of assistant-manager at Wanganui, which is one of the company’s largest businesses in the North Island. Mr Cochran will take up his-new duties early in September. Advice has been received by the Minister for the Cook Islands (Sir Apirana Ngata) that at an election held in Rarotonga on Friday for the appointment of a European representative on the Island Council, Mr W. J. Wigmore was reelected. Mr Wigmore has been a member of the Island Council since 1925. He is a planter, and has had a very long experience of island affairs. The assistant Bishop-elect of Melanesia, the Rev. J 11. Dickinson, who will assist Bishop Molyneux in the Melanesian mission field, arrived at Auckland yesterday by 7 the Rangitane from England. During the last two years Mr Dickinson has been engaged in the mission field in J's pan. He will be consecrated assistant bishop of the diocese of Melanesia by Archbishop Averill in St. Paul’s Pro-cathedral, W cllington, on Sunday, August 30. and xs ill proceed to the mission field by the steamer Southern Cross early next month. Dr Murray Scott, late house surgeon at the Southland Hospital, left Invcrcar"ill last week on his way to the Old Country. At present he is visiting Ins brother, Mr R. B. Scott, at New Plymouth. and after spending some time at Auckland be will sail finally from W e - linglon on September 10. Dr Scott will continue bis studies at Edinburgh University with a view to gaming his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, and it is anticipated that lie will be away for 18 months. T , The Rev. 11. S. Leach, L.Th., formerly curate at St. Matthew's. Dunedin, later vicar of Fendalton, Christchurch, and now of Arkengarthdale. Yorkshire, has loeen presented by the Bishop of Ripon to the living of Bolton-on-Swale, Yorkshire. Bishop Sedgwick, formerly Bishop of Waiapu. has been appointed by 7 the Archbishop of Canterbury as Vicar of Detling. near Maidstone, in Kent. Bishop Steward, formerly Bishop of Melanesia, has undertaken the charge of the new Church of St. Francis, Silver End, Rivenhall, near Chelmsford, Essex. A visit was paid on Tuesday afternoon

by several directors of the Dunedin Bowling Club to the residence of the secretary (Mr A. Black) in Littlcbourne crescent, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his wedding. The president of the club (Mr W. Anderson), on behalf of his directors, congratulated Mr and Mrs Black on the completion of 50 years of married life, and as a token of the high esteem in which they were held he presented to Mr Black a gold-mounted walking stick, suitably engraved, and to Mrs Black a bronze vase. The president’s remarks

were supported by Messrs G. H. Haywarfl and C. Stanley Smith (vice-presidents)

and Mr J. H. Wilkinson). Mr Black feelingly replied. The Rev. W. Wilson Cash, general secretary in England of the Church Missionary Society, will arrive in Dunedin from Christchurch to-day. In the evening he will be given a public welcome in the Early Settlers’ Hall, when he will sjx?ak on “The Church To-day in India.’’ Mr Cash has had some 30 years’ experience in missionary work in Egypt and the East, and he is the author of several books on Moslem problems. ’ As senior Anglican chaplain during the Palestine campaign, he walked side by side with Lord Allenby when that general made his memorable entry into Jerusalem, and it was Mr Cash who offered thanks to God for that triumphant but peaceful entry. On Tuesday last Mr Cash conferred with the executive of the Board of Missions in Wellington, and at a luncheon at the Rotary Club gave a very interesting talk pn the changes in the Moslem world which was broadcast.