PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 22816, 15 February 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr V. C. Mathews, managing director of Robert Malcolm, Limited, is leaving on March 3 by the Aorangi for a six months’ business trip to . the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. •

Mr J. E. Davies, instructor in agriculture in Dunedin, has been transferred to Hawera, where he will take up the position of instructor for the South Taranaki district. He will leave for the north on February 22.

Messrs T. C. Titteringham, T. B. Linklater, L. M. Schrader, J. R. Trayes and L. D. Hearst (all of Wellington), A. R. Harris and S. A. Dunrose (both of Christchurch), J. Olds and J. Fraser (both of Palmerston North), Major Briggs (Melbourne) and Mr A. Mackenzie (Queenstown) are guests at the Grand Hotel.

The Right Rev. Monsignor Peter Quealy, Rockville Centre, New York, is on a visit to his brother, the Rev. Patrick Quealy, Opunake, and his sister, Sister Mary Peter. The monsignor has just completed a magnificent church at his parish and was interested in the new church built by his brother and finished last year at Petone. This is the second visit of Monsignor Quealy to New Zealand, as he was here 24 years ago.

By the last Australian mail advice was received that Mr Ronald Williams, a young baritone student of Mr H. Nevill-Smith at the State Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, had been awarded the 25-guinea local scholarship for 1936. Mr Williams is only 19 years of age, and promises to become a very fine singer. Mr Nevill-Smith is well known in musical circles in Timaru and Christchurch, where he formerly resided.

Mr D. Richardson, of the Christchurch staff of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., has received notice of his transfer to Invercargill. At a meeting of the Canterbury Surf LifeSaving Association, to which Mr Richardson was a delegate from the Sumner Surf Club, the president, Mr A. I. Cottrell, expressed regret that Mr Richardson’s services were to be lost to the sport in Christchurch, and wished him good luck in Invercargill