PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Rev. T. C. Beattie, missionary of the Church of England in Zululand, lias arrived at Auckland from Sydney oil a holiday visit to New Zealand, Mr. E. R. Shorhuid, ,formerly manager of: the Union Bank, Waipuluirau, with Airs. Shorhuid and Miss R. Shetland, are to spend the winter months in Gisborne, says the Napier Telegraph.

Captain G. L. Brown, who commanded llio Eleanor Bolling during Admiral Byrd’s expedition lo the, South Pole, was'iii Paris lust, month on his way to Germany. In a letter to a friend in Dunedin, he stated that, he anticipated being in Dunedin in November.

Air. 1. C. Gctides, a director of the Orient .Steam Navigation Company, has arrived at Auckland on a holiday visit. It is 30 years since he visited New Zealand, and ho intends to leave by the Rangigtata, from Wellington on May 12. Air. Geddes is accompanied by Mrs. Gcddes and their son, Mr. I. Geodes. Sir Thomas Wilfoul loft London on March 6 to take the leave which has been granted him by the New Zealand Government, writes a London correspondent. lie has gone to St. Andrews, where he expects to enjoy some good golf. It is not unlikely that he will see the Grand National run at Aintrce on his way back. The Rev. Otto Fitzgerald, vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Avonsidc, Christchurch, has retired. He preached his farewell sermon on Sunday evening, after having been 23 years in the parish. Mr. Fitzgerald is a son of Mr. James Edward Fitzgerald, the founder of the Press, and the first superintendent of Canterbury. Recent guests at the Masonic. Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. Kirk (Port A would) ; Messrs. T). Jones and P. Callaghan (Putavuru); Mr. and Airs. Walker, Ah' and Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Airey, Miss Butcher, and Air. N. IN’. Gibbon (Wellington) ; Air. and Mrs. Cooper, ■ tjio .Misses Gibbons, and Air N. Hawkeswood (Auckland) ; Messrs, If. L. and S. C. Ilavbittle (Napier/; Mr. and Mrs Donald Reid, and AUss McDonald (Palmerston North); Mr. J. I). Nelson (Dunedin): Air. A. Tuck well (Waipiro Bay) A gathering under pleasant circum stances took place at the Gisborne Hotel last, week when members of the stall assembled on tire occasion of the approaching marriage of one of their colleagues, Mr. E. G. Gilchrist. In presenting Air. Gilchrist with a lino mantel clock on behalf of the staff, Mr. E. Warren referred to the esteem in wliich the recipient was held by all with whom he was associated. He hoped ho would enjoy every happiness in the future and asked him to accept the clock with the best wishes of the staff. AH. Gilchrist made a fitting reply..

(In his return to Melbourne by the steamer Taiping, after a six months appointment in Pekin. Professor PWood .Tones, of the Melbourne University, said that he found China fully determined to light out. the issue with Japan and retain her national reputation to the end. War news was perhaps the only news iu the East, and the daily arrival of wounded soldiers in Pekin was evidence enough of the conflict on the baltlefront. Professor Jones was attached to the Pekin Union Medical College, which is maintained bv the Rockefeller Institution. He was the first Australjtm w receive an invitation to join the staff at the college, as previously lecturers had been drawn from German, Dutch and American universities. Tho 'Chinese students, with whom ho came in contact, were cultured and spoke fluent English. About 30 passed through the college in a year.

Advice was received in Gisborne yesterday from Mr. Colin Lowndes, formerly of Gisborne, to the effect, that lie tiad been provisionally selected as u member of the Australian Universities Rugby football team to visit New Zealand 'next month. Mr. Lowndes. was a prominent member of the Gisborne High School first, fifteen some rears ago, and on proceeding to Otago University he continued bis successful football career, seeming his blue in (his sport, as well as gaining representative honors in various other branches of athletic effort. After taking his degree at Otago, lie joined an insurance company in Australia, being appointed lo the Melbourne office, and while there lie continued his post-gin dilate work at the Melbourne University. He has r. presented that university in Rugby lootball with much success, and despite his light, build, has always shown ' a remarkable capacity for the game. The Australian Universities’ team will play its first match in New Zealand at Auckland. on May 17. (Midday Forecast) General inference.—The westerly depression mentioned yesterday deepened considerably during the night, while at the same time a rapid vise in pressure took place over eastern Australia. Conditions therefore favor a marked southerly change. Forecast.-—Strong north-west winds to gale, backing to south-west to-morrow. Weather squally and changeable, and later rain probable, witU cold temperatures. Seas rough.