PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 7 December 1933, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Hon. T. W. Alport Barker, M.L.0., was elected Mayor of Suva yesterday. In tho House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. T. 1). Burnett was granted leave of absence for the remainder of the session on account of illness. Mr. F. K. McNatty, Wairoa, has been spending a holiday in Gisborne, having •been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. WMills, Aberdeen road. Mr John Brownlee had tin enthusiastic reception at the Paris Opera House, singing Wolfram in “Tannhauser. ” lie has been engaged for the principal baritone roles of tho season. At the annual meeting of the Auckland division of the British Medical Association. Mr. W. A. Fairclough was elected president. The retiring president is Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie. —P.A. Mr. John Bishop, conductor of the Royal Wellington Choral Union for the past six years, has resigned the. position, and shortly is leaving New Zealand for Australia. —P.A. Dr. Sperrin Johnson, formerly of Auckland University College, arrived in New York yesterday to lecture on musical archaeology in the Columbia and New York Universities. Thence he is proceeding to Palestine, where be is eonsuiting naturalist to the Unite and Wellcome expeditions. The Rev. IL Godfrey, formerly r| l Christchurch, has been appointed arch deacon of Southern Melanesia. For many years Mr. Godfrey bar, been in charge of the training college for native ordinal] ts and teachers at Lolowai, New Hebrides. Mr. Phil Williams, son of Canon Williams, will leave Auckland early this month for Melanesia, and will assist at the boys’ school at Vureas, Now Hebrides. Mr. Williams was educated at Christ’s College, and for the last five years has been studying for holy orders. Mr. C. S', LL.IL, of the stall - of St. George’s School. Wanganui, who has been appointed deputy-chief librarian of the Wellington City Council’s public libraries, will enter upon Lis duties in Wellington mi December 18. Mr. Perry is the oldest son of tho Re.v. Charles Perry, vicar of St. Michael’s. He was at Christ’s College from 1917 to 1926.