PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18770, 29 July 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Palairct, left Auckland for Sydney on Find ay by the Marama The appointment of Mr. J. H. Carrad, assistant solicitor in the Public Trust Office to the first assistant solicitor, has been announced. Th’e Governor-General, Lord Galway, lias consented to open the Canterbury VVipter Show and Exbibitibn of Industries on Saturday, August 10. Dr. A. Smith Gray, formerly of Thames, has passed the primary ex-, animation for Fellow of the Royal,College of Surgeons, England. He has taken an appointment as resident surgeon- at All Saints’ Hospital, London. Messrs R. 11. Skipwith and 0. Gomer, who visited Gisborne on business in connection with the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s steeplechase meeting, left for their respective headquarters during, the weekend Mr. W. H. Pickering, M.Sc., a postgraduate student at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, who has been absent from New Zealand for six years, is at present visiting his parents in Christchurch. Mr. N. Pelvin, of the Weights and Measures Department, Wellington, who is on loan to the Gisborne office, is at present carrying out inspections iu the Bay of Plenty district. He is expected to be away about a month.

Mr 31. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, is expected .to arrive in Gislorne from Rotorua to-morrow. He will give a series of addresses in this district prior to his departure next Saturday for Auckland. Pastor J. Sands, of Kamo, North Auckland, has accepted an invitation to fill the joint pastorate of the Congregational Churches of Port Chalmers and Ravensbourne. He expects to commence his ministry on September 1. Mr J. Morris, who was formerly in the Police Force and was stationed at Gisborne for many years, was a visitor for the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s races last week. Mr' Moms retired from the force three years ago, and since has been living in the Bay of Plenty.

Mr. John Mulgan, of Auckland, has been appointed to a position in. the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press) in Oxford. Mr. Multan graduated at Auckland University College itud has been at Merton College, Oxford, for the past two years. •Misa Shirley Smith, daughter of Mr. Justice Smith, Wadestown, will leave Auckland by the R.uahine on August 17 for England. Miss Smith recently passed the Oxford entrance examination at Nga Tawa. the, Wellington Diocesan School. She will take up residence at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, early in October. Pr. and Mrs. L. A. Lewis returned to New Zealand from London on the Doric Star. Dr. Lewis, who was formerly medical superintendent of the King George Y Hospital at Rotorua, went to London about 15 months ago to study for the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery. Ufcon gaining the diploma Dr. .Lewis was appointee .■to the staff of the Royal Opnthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, London.

Passengers who .travelled to Napier on Saturday by the East Coast Airways' plane included* Mesdames J. McCoy and il. Johnson; Messrs. W. H. Lysnar, W. E. Spalding J. McCoy, It. Allen, A. Dennis, S. Pattc, Wing-Commander S. Grant-Dalton, and Flight-Lieut.. S. TJQrroll. Those who travelled to Gisborne the same day included Mesdanjes A. Richie and EL. M. Bride; Messrs. .1. J. Long, C. 11. Jackson, Wing-Commander S.*GrantDalton, and Flight-Lieut. S. Burrell,

Mr. R. 11. Meade, the veterinarian attached to the Palmerston North branch of the Department of Agriculture, will retire at the end of the month after service with the department aggregating 22 years. Mr. Meade qualified in 1904, and was for some time engaged at his calling in Ireland. Then came the opportunity to go to the Sudan, where he remained during 1906 atld 1907. After service in British Columbia and another period in Ireland, he came to New Zealand in 1913.

A distinguished. New Zealander, whose career has received curiously little publicity in the Dominion, is expected to arrive in Auckland' next month. This is Dr. Sydney A. Smith, Regius Professor of Forensic of Medicine and Dean of the • Faculty of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and one of the world’s leading authorities on medical jurisprudence. Dr. Smith, who is revisiting Now Zealand after the lapse of IS years, is on his way to the annual conference of the British Medical Association, to be held in Melbourne in September. He intends to spend three weeks in the Dominion, and to visit his sister, Mgs G. Mead, Claude lands, Hamilton.