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Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 60

PERSONAL.

. • J- Mullin has been appointed librarian at the Medical School. The appointment is announced in the Gazette of Mr E. D. M’Lennan as a member of the Board of Agriculture. Lieutenant-colonel C. J. W. Lockie has relinquished command of the North Auckland Regiment and has been transferred to the reserve of officers. Dr D. G. Radcliffe, of Balclutha, has been successful in passing the primary’ section of the F.R.C.S. degree, the examination for which was held recently in Melbourne.

Mr W. B. Taverner, the sitting member for South Dunedin, has been unanimously selected to represent the party in this electorate at the forthcoming general election.

Miss 11. M. Cumming, of Dunedin, having completed a period of 18 months’ service on the nursing staff of the Apia Hospital, returned by the motor ship Maui Pomare on Tuesday morning. Dr Gcerin, who has been for several years past visiting the hospitals of Great Britain and the Continent, is returning to the Dominion by the s.s. Monowai from Sydney and will arrive in Dunedin early this week.

In the Wellington Competition Society’s festival, which wag opened on Wednesday evening. Miss Dorothy Clark, of Dunedin, gained second place in the women’s recitation and first place in the Shakespearian recitation under 21 years of age. On Thursday Miss Margaret Seelye, of Dunedin, wqg placed second in the reading at sight. Mr Maurice Smith, solicitor, of Pahiatua, will leave Auckland by’ the Tainui early’ next month for England, where he will enter the London office of Mr C. J. Wray. Mr Wray is the representative in England of the New Zealand Rugby Union.

No successor will be appointed to Mr E. Douglas Tayler, director of school music, who will retire in August to go to California. The Director of Education (Mr T. B. Strong) said that the departure of Mr Tayler would be regretted. His work for school music had been invaluable. Mr R. H. Parton, who for some years has been the New Zealand representative of Messrs Edwards, Dunlop, Ltd.. Sydney, has now been appointed to a position on the staff of the paper, machinery, and printing ink section of Messrs Neill, Cropper and Co., with headquarters at Christchurch. Mr Parton’s territory will cover the whole of New Zealand with the exception of the Auckland province. Notification appeared in last week’s Gazette that Squadron-leader M. C. M’Gregor, D.F.C., officer commanding No. 2 Squadron (Wellingtoji-Taranaki), New Zealand Air Force, has been posted to the reserve of officers, and that he had been succeeded by’ Squadron-leader G. L. Stedman, pilot instructor to the Wellington Aero Club. The new appointment dates from July 31, the day after Squad-ron-leader M'Gregor’s transfer to the reserve.

A party of five outgoing missionaries leave Auckland for China for foreign service under the auspices of the China Inland Mission on August 28. They are — Mr Thomas Knight, B.Se., and Miss Maud King, R.N., both of Auckland, and Mr Ronald Grubb, of Christchurch, Mr John William Beck, of Ashburton, and Miss Myrie Wood, of Invercargill. These are five more of the 200 the mission has asked for in connection with its forward movement. All the five persons mentioned have undergone periods of training at the Training Institute, Auckland. Miss Wood will pass through Dunedin from Invercargill for the north tomorrow morning.

On the occasion of his departure from the Christchurch branch of the Bank of New Zealand, to take up his duties as an inspector, Mr K. M. Ollivier, assistant manager, was the recipient of a presentation from the staff. The presentation, which (says the Christchurch Press) took the form of a mahogany standard lamp and a gold pencil, was made in the presence of the staff by the manager, Mr John Mac Gibbon. Mr Ollivier, in returning thanks, said that of his 30 years in the service of the bank 20 years had been spent in the Christchurch branch. His relations with the staff had always been of the happiest nature, and he felt as if he were one of a large family about to leave home. He was sure the staff would extend to his successor, Mr P. L. Porter, the same loyalty and support that had been afforded him at all times.