PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18635, 2 August 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr Bernie Young, representing Radio Pictures, is at present in Timaru. On the motion of Mr L. E. Finch, Mr F. J. Smith, Temuka, was admitted by Mr Justice Adams as a barrister of the Supreme Court. Mr C. A. Marris, who for the past three years has been editor of “The New Zealand Referee,” has relinquished that position, and joins the literary staff of the Wellington “Evening Post.’’ The death has occurred of the Rev. F. E. Harrs', who has been pastor of the Vivian Street Baptist Church, Wellington, for the past eight years. The late Mr Harry was four times elected president of the Baptist Union, and was regarded as an outstanding personality in that denomination. A fortnight ago Mr Harry announced to the congregation in the Vivian Street Church that owing to ill-health he had decided to resign his charge. The late Mr Harry Was born in 1864 at Swlnden, England, was educated at the local Grammar School, and graduated at Rawdon College, near Leeds. He came to Aus 7 tralla forty years ago, and was for a time president of the Baptist Unions of Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

Mr D. J. Sidey, who was a former pupil of Timaru Boys’ High School and a gold medallist of Lincoln Collegt, who is doing research work at Tarrindon (Leeds) University, is the first New Zealand student there. Mr Sidey was selected by the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to go to England to report on the manufacturing of New Zealand wool and to study the laiest methods of wool research. Mr Sidey will be in Leeds for six months, and in Edinburgh for three months, and will visit as many of the leading experimental stations as possible. Mr Sidey was from the outset a brilliant science student and has had wide experience of his subject both in New Zealand and Australia, where he attended Hawkesbury College and won a gold medal. He is a son of Mr David Sidey, a well-known North Canterbury sheep farmer.