PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24152, 14 June 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir Robert Anderson returned to Invercargill yesterday after a visit to Australia. Colonel N. W. McD. Weir, N.Z.S.C., officer commanding the Northern Military Districts, has been appointed honary aide-de-camp to Viscount Galway. —Press Association.

Mr John Dunlop, of Seaward Downs, left yesterday for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Dairy Board. Mr A. le H. Hoyles, president of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce, is visiting the North Island.

Mr J. N. Armour was last night appointed the representative of the Southland Acclimatization Society on the Southland Progress League.

Mr J. F. Egan, formerly of the staff of the Nightcaps school, has taken up his appointment at Puketere in the North Island. Mr Egan was a well known Rugby football player and was full-back in the Southland sub-unions’ team last year.

Advice has been received in Dunedin that Flying Officer D. J. T. Sharp, formerly of St. Clair, has received highest honours in recent Royal Air Force examinations, and has been posted to a school for instruction in Wales.

Major R. E. Murray relinquishes his appointment on the New Zealand Temporary Staff at Wellington, being seconded for duty with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, according to a notice in the Gazette.—Press Association.

Captain E. G. Morris has been appointed Director and Registrar of Naval Reserves in New Zealand, according to a notice in the Gazette—Press Association.

The resignation of Mr T. N. Mitchell as a councillor of the Southland Acclimatization Society was received with regret by the council of the society last night. The president (Mr S. M. Macalister) expressed appreciation of the services given by Mr Mitchell.

Mr E. S. Taylor was nominated as a candidate for producers’ representative on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board at a meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

Mr L. R. Austin, manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, Reefton, has received advice that he is to be transferred to Riverton. The Very Rev. Dean J. J. O’Donnell, of Ashburton, believed to be the oldest Roman Catholic priest still in charge of a parish in New Zealand or Australia, will celebrate the diamond jubilee of his ordination on June 24. There are only two other Catholic priests in New Zealand who have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their ordination. Dean O’Donnell, who has been in charge of the parish at Ashburton for 48 years, was bom at County Limerick, Ireland, on November 1, 1856, and was educated at Mount Melleray. After a distinguished college course, he entered All Hallows College, Dublin, in 1876, for his theological studies. He came to New Zealand in November 1880, the year of his ordination. Later he was parish priest at Waimate, Ahaura, and Darfield.