ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21604, 16 January 1932, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr E. M. Christie, of Wellington, and formerly- of the staff of the Gore High School, is at present visiting Gore. Mr John Hamer, of Dunedin, who is to take over the management of the Majestic Theatre in place of Mr Irvine Elston, who is going to Timaru, arrived in Invercargill by last evening’s express. A Press Association message from London states that Miss Yvonne Tooth, daughter of the late Sir Robert Lucas Tooth, was married to Mr Reginald George Booth, of Wellington.

Major J. B. Shand, Nationalist member for Hornsby in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, is visiting the Dominion with a view to investigating the possibilities of improving the market in New Zealand for Australian fruit. Word has been received from the Nurses and Midwives Registration Board, Wellington, that the following Southland Hospital nurses were successful in the recent final examinations conducted by that board: Catherine J. Nolan, Ellen A. Rose, Frances Aburn, Doris 8011, Elsie Ker, Lillian Managh, Anne O’Donnell, Janet Rattray, Mona Roy, Ethel Smith. At the annual meeting of the University Senate at Dunedin on Thursday, the chancellor (Professor J. Macmillan Brown) conferred the following degrees: Bachelor of arts, William Lancelot Holland (Canterbury University College) ; master of surgery (with distinction), John Maxwell Clarke (Otago University) ; bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery, Garth Rivers Stoneham (Otago University). Mr D. D. O’Connor, who has just arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi, will spend a few weeks in the Dominion. He was tour, ing manager for the late Mr Edward Branscombe’s Westminster Glee Singers. The company is now in Egypt and after concluding engagements there will return to England and disband. Mr O’Connor intends returning to the Old Country to help reorganize the singers for another world tour.