ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22201, 19 December 1933, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Colonel J. Murphy, who has been on a business visit to Invercargill, returns to Christchurch by this morning’s express.

A Wellington Press Association message states: The Rev. R. J. Howie, of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church announced to the Kirk session at the close of the morning service on Sunday that he had received cabled advice from Melbourne that the congregation at Malvern were sending him an enthusiastic and unanimous call. In the absence of any detailed information he could not say at present what his attitude would be, but he confessed that the call had made a great appeal to him and that he had not sought it or made any overtures. Canon W. G. Hilliard, headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, who has been selected as Bishop of Nelson, completed his B.A. degree at Sydney University in 1910, graduating M.A. four years later. He was Canon of Dulwich Hill from 1911 to 1916, and also a lecturer at the Moore Theological College, Sydney, during that period, while in 1912 he was missioner to the Men Mission Zone Fund, Sydney Diocese. From 1913 to 1916, Canon Hilliard was headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Dulwich Hill, and at the end of that period became Rector of St. John, Ashfield, where he remained until 1926. During the next two years he was Rector of St. Clement’s, Marrickville. From 1917, he was commissioner in Sydney to the Bishop of Gippsland, and was appointed Archbishop’s Chaplain to the Diocese of Sydney Lay Readers in 1919. He accepted the position of headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Summerhill Diocese of Sydney, in 1928.