PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19666, 7 December 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr C. R. Orr-WAlker. SAL. returned to Timaru from Wellington by the express yesterday morning. A cable message from Suva announces that Mr Alport Barker waa yesterday elected Mayor of Suva. Mr C. E. Hassall. of Timaru, has been appointed handicapper to the Riverton Racing Club.

In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr T. D. Burnett was granted leave of absence for the remainder of the session on account of illness. The Rev. Ernest Nicholls, of Hastings, has accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Ingestre Street Baptist Church, Wanganui. Mr E. F. Farrow, manager of Hay's Wharf, London, and a director of a number of London companies. Is on a holiday visit to the Dominion. Mr C. S. Waugh, marine superintendent of the Huddart, Parker Company in Melbourne, is on a brief visit to the Dominion. Dr. B. R. Philllpps. Schools Medical Officer, is at present on an official visit to South Canterbury, and is staying at the Balmoral Hotel. At the annual meeting of the Auckland Division of the British Medical Association. Mr W. A. Fairclough waa elected president. The retiring president is Mr Kenneth Mackenzie. The Rev. H. F. Ault, who has been engaged in missionary’ work in Karachi India, returned on Tuesday by tha Marama from Sydney, accompanied by Mrs Ault. Lieutenant-Colonel K. B. Tennent, officer commanding the North Auckland Mounted Rifles, has had his period of command extended to November 7, 1934. On account of the indisposition of Professor J. D. Salmond, of Otago, Dr. Beeby, of Canterbury College, will deliver the principal address on Timaru Boys' High School speech nignt, on December 14. The Rev. Harold Fallows, M-A.. at present in the Auckland diocese, has accepted the cure of the RoxburghTapanul parochial district. Mr Fellow* will take up his new duties at the beginning of February. Mr W. M. Satterthwaite, who has been six years in the Napier branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been transferred to Wellington. Mr Satterthwaite is a son of the Mayor, Mr T. W. Sattenthwaite. Mr J. C. Rolleston, of Te Kuitl, who was the Parliamentary representative for Waitomo from 1922 to 1928, was accorded a public farewell last week on the occasion of his departure from the district to take up his residence at Takapau, Hawke's Bay. The Rev. A. G. Kayll, B A., son of Canon J. L. A. Kayll, of Auckland, has been appointed to a chaplaincy in the Royal Air Force, and will leave London early next vear for the Air Force station at Bagdad. Mr Kayll, who waa educated at the Auckland Grammar School and trained for the ministry at St. John's College, graduated at Cambridge University. Mr Fred Gawith, of Mountain Road, Eltham, has been honoured with an Invitation to attend the first session of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological sciences, to be held in London, under Royal patronage, from July 30 to August 4, 1934. The invitation comes from the president of the congress, the Earl of Onslow. The congress will be the first of its kind to be held.