PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2126, 7 December 1920, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Mr W. F. M. Buckley returned from the? north by this morning's boat. Mr Walter .Fuller intends returning north to-night, after spending a few days in Christchureh. Mr Athol Hunnibell, of Spreydon, has been appointed organist and choirmaster at St. Mark's Church, Opawa. Dr, Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, arrived in Auckland yesterday on his return from the Lambeth | Conference. The Rev. A. C. Lawry left last night for Wellington, on business connected with the Methodist Centenary Commemorations. The Hon. George Fowlds has returned to New Zealand after a trip to America. Dr Tillyard, biologist to the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, was a passenger by the same boat. A Sydney message states that Mr A. W. Corry, director of the Commonwealth and Dominion Steamship Co., Ltd., for Australia and New Zealand, has been elected chairman of the Overseas' Shipping Association, in succession to Sir Owen Cox. Mr W. A. Pringle, M.A., at present lecturer in Economics in the University of London, has accepted the chair of EcSnomics in the Otago University. Mr Pringle is an LL.B. of Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, with honours in economics, jurisprudence, and international and constitutional law, and is also a barrister-at-law. Mr A. D. Monro, B.Sc, of Canterbury University College, Christchureh, has jbeen appointed to the position of demonstrator of chemistry at Victoria I College, Wellington. During the past year he has prepared a thesis on the j analysis of the gases occluded in New jZcaland coals. Mr Monro sat for his M.Sc. degree in November last. I The Rev. Father James Whyte, Bishop-Elect of Dunedin, and Bishop Carroll, of Lismore, New South Wales, were passengers by the Manuka from Sydney yesterday. Father Whyte will be consecrated at Dunedin on Sunday next. At the same time the Rt. Rev. Dr Liston, of Holy Cross Seminary, Mosgiel, will be Coadju-tor-Bishop of Auckland. Mr J. B. Chappell, of Grange Road, Mount Eden, aged 77 years, is dead. The late Mr Chappell was well known in the Bay of Plenty, having arrived from Portsmouth, England, nearly 40 years ago. He was the youngest son of the Rev. William Chappell. of Southampton, England. Two or his sons are the Rev. A. B. Chappell, M.A., Registrar of Auckland University College, and Mr W. Chappell, 8.A., headmaster of Aratapu District High School. Mr A. J. Barge, whose death has just taken place, was well known as a journalist and an athlete. He was for many years on the staff of the "New Zealand Referee," and in his younger days was a first-class cricketer and footballer. He was a prominent member of the old Midland Cricket Club and the East Christchureh Cricket Club. He was for a number of years the compiler of "the New Zealand racing statistics, and a capable writer on cricket, football, and athletics generally.