PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23674, 24 November 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) arrived in Dunedin yesterday and addressed a meeting of sports bodies in the evening on the physical fitness campaign.—Press Association.

Mr W. A.- Ott was appointed last evening at a meeting of the Bluff Harbour Board to represent the board on the Invercargill advisory committee of the South’ Islands Travel Association. The Rt. Rev. C. West-Watson, Bishop of Christchurch, left Lyttelton on Monday night for the Chatham Islands, which form part of his diocese. He is accompanied by Archdeacon A. J. Petrie.

Mr J. G. Groeninger, United States Consul at Auckland, will leave by the Mariposa on Friday for Australia, where he will spend his leave. He expects to return in the first week of January. Sir Robert .Kotze, a former member of Parliament in South Africa and for 18 years chief Government mining engineer of the Union, will arrive in New Zealand early next month on a holiday visit. Sir Stephen Allen, Auckland, accompanied by his son Peter, will leave for England by the Rotorua on Saturday. Peter Allen is to report to the Admiralty in January and will join the drill ship Erebus at Portsmouth. Mr A. R. Grierson, accountant for the Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, is to retire on superannuation as from the end of this month. He will be succeeded by Mr J. W. Cawley, at present assistant accountant. Mr Grierson be . gan his banking career with the Bank of Australasia at Dunedin in 1895.— Times Special Service. The appointment of a former Auckland student, Mr L. W. A. Crawley, at present at Geelong, Victoria, as lecturer in classics at the Auckland University College is announced. There were 16 applicants for the lectureship.—Times Special Service. Mr Lionel Massey, son of the High Commissioner for Canada in London, and a farmer in Ontario, left Auckland by the Awatea for Australia on Tuesday after spending six weeks in the Dominion.

Mr Andrew Kinross has been appointed head master of the Tisbury school. He is at present assistant master at the St. George school. Mr A. Maling, Sydney, general manager of the Australian General Electric Company Limited, arrived at Auckland by the Awatea on a holiday visit to New Zealand. Dr C. J. F. Skottsberg, director of the Botanic Gardens at Gothenburg, Sweden, who has been spending some weeks in the Dominion, left Auckland by the Awatea on Tuesday for Sydney,