PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23307, 17 September 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr R. H. Ward, Southland Rugby forward, will leave for Auckland by the express this morning.

Messrs N. E. Jorry (Dunedin) , P. D. Johnston (Wellington), R. Pickford (Dunedin) and D. L. Grant (Oamaru) are at the Club Hotel.

Mr E. H. Smith was elected president of the Southland Boys’ High School Old Boys’ Association at the annual meeting last evening.

Messrs D. S. McLeod and F. E. Nottage have been appointed producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Trust Export Control Board.—Press Association.

Messrs M. T. Donovan (Wellington), J. M. Downie (Auckland), R. A. Hollis (Wellington), J. E. W. Hogg (Dunedin) and G. S. Reynolds (Wellington) are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr E. P. Yaldwyn, manager of the Commercial Bank in New Zealand since 1912, is retiring. He will be succeeded by Mr A. Mcß. Broderick, of Melbourne, who arrives in October.—Press Association.

Sir William Perry and Messrs H. D. Acland, B. E. H. Tripp and G. C. Warren have been appointed to represent the wool growers on the New Zealand Wool Publicity Commission.—Press Association.

The Rev Lawrence A. North, minister in charge of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, Christchurch, who has been abroad during the last eight months, will return to Christchurch at the end of this month. Mr C. E. Critchley, who is to succeed Mr R. H. Nesbitt as Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, is at present enjoying a few months’ furlough in Sydney after serving for some years at Batavia. Mr Critchley will probably take up his duties at Wellington early in the new year. Congratulations to the Hon. Mark Fagan on his reappointment as a member and Leader of the Legislative Council were extended by the council yesterday afternoon when tributes were paid by the Hon. W. W. Snodgrass, Nelson, to Mr Fagan’s outstanding qualities and the way in which he had won the admiration and affection of his colleagues.—Press Association. Mr H. Nevill Smith, artist and musician, a former resident of Christchurch, has had a number of his paintings bought for art galleries in the United States. The Dallas Art Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, at Dallas, in Texas, has had purchased for it a water-colour done by Mr Smith. He has held three “one-man” exhibitions in the United States, and had four pictures hung at the Royal Art Exhibition in Sydney. Reference to the deaths of Messrs A. M. Bums and T. D. A. Moffett, two former pupils of the Southland Boys’ High School, was made by the retiring president (Mr J. L. Cameron), at the annual meeting of the Southland Boys’ High School Old Boys’ Association last evening. Mr Bums’s enthusiasm had been responsible for the successful development of the Christchurch branch of the association, Mr Cameron said, and Mr Moffett had also had the interests of the school at heart. A motion of sympathy was carried.

Mr H. E. Niven, who has been the Southland County Council’s representative on the Southland Hospital Board since November 1914, has resigned his position on the board because of continued ill-health. His resignation was received at the monthly meeting of the

Hospital Board yesterday. The chairman (Mr T. Golden) said that Mr Niven was a man of high ideals and sincere sympathies and his resignation would mean a big loss to the board. It was decided that a letter of appreciation of his services should be sent to Mr Niven.

Dr R. M. Barrer, a son of Mr T. R. Barrer, Masterton, who was recently awarded the degree of D.Sc. (N.Z.j, has received a further distinction, having been elected to a Fellow o f Clare College, tenable for three years. He intends to continue his research work at Cambridge in spite of having been offered important posts both in London and abroad. Dr Barrer’s research work has received signal praise in a new book from the Oxford University Press, “The Mechanism of Contact Catalysis,” by R. H. Griffith. Mr C. R. Knowles, who for a number of years has filled the position of secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been appointed private secretary to the Leader of the Legislative Council, (the Hon. Mark Fagan). Since joining the Government service in 1921, Mr Knowles has been associated with three successive Speakers of the House, his service including three years with the late Hon. Sir Frederic Lang. Throughout the term of office of the Hon. Sir Charles Statham, M.L.C., he was Speaker’s secretary, and, until his recent promotion, acted in a similar capacity with the present Speaker, (the Hon. W. E. Barnard). Mr Clive Morton, Auckland, succeeds Mr Knowles as secretary to the Speaker.