PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18337, 7 August 1929, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Mr T. P. Crowe left Timaru for Dunedin yesterday, on a business visit.

Sir Truby King passed through Timaru by yesterday morning’s express.

The Hon. James Craigie, M.L.C., arrived in Timaru by yesterday morning’s express from Christchurch. Mr R. L. Wigley returned to Timaru, frem the North Island, by yesterday morning’s express.

The Hon. T. K. Sidey (Attorney General and Leader of the Legislative Council), travelled south by yesterday’s express. Mr J. W. Preen was yesterday nominated for the seat on the Canterbury Education Board, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr J. Maze. The nominators were Messrs W. Gibb, G. Benstead, A. Carnegie and W. H. Thompson. At a meeting of the Timaru Presbytery yesterday, it was reported that Mr R. W. A. Brenton, Home Missioner in the Catlins district; Otago, and late of Geraldine, had been seriously ill for some months. It was decided to forward Mr Brendon and his family the Presbytery’s sympathy. Reference was made at a meeting of the Timaru Presbytery yesterday to the long and splendid service of the late Mr G. Goldsman as ah Elder of Trinity Church. A motion of condolence was carried in silence, and it was decided to convey the Presbytery’s sympathy to his family. John Watt Deem, who is Fields superintendent for the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay : Gisborne and Taranaki districts, has been appointed director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, in succession to Mr A. H. Cockayne. The Rev. Dr H. Ranston, residential professor at Trinity Methodist College, Christchurch, left by the lonic for England on Saturday. He is on a holiday trip, and while away Dr Ranston, who in 1931 will succeed Dr C. H. Laws as principal of the college, will visit the other theological colleges, and will examine their working methods. A cable message received from London this morning states that it is understood that Salvation Army Commissioner John Cunningham, formerly International Secretary for Europe and the Dominions, succeeds Commissioner Hay in New Zealand. It is reported that the latter will take charge of Eastern Canada, but Headqquarters state that only General Higgins knows. Commissioner Mitchell succeeds Commissioner Cunningham.

Sir William Marris, a graduate of Canterbury College, lately Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and now a member of the India Council, has recently been appointed Principal of the Armstrong College at Newcastle, in succession to Sir Theodore Morrison. Armstrong College is a division of the University of Durham, and was established in 1671 as a College of Physical Science. It has established a line reputation for training and research in englneering and pure and applied sciences.