PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19759, 28 March 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr G. W. MacAvoy (Dunedin) is staying at the Grand.

Mr D. N. Hollander (Christchurch) is registered at the Grosvenor. The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Minister of Employment, passed through Timaru on his way south yesterday. Messrs G. W. Mclntosh and J. W. Barnett (Dunedin) are staying at the Dominion.

Dr William Irving, of Christchurch, passed through Timaru yesterday on his way south before embarking on a trip to England. Messrs A. G. Stevenson, F. Reid. G. R. Taylor (Christchurch), C. R. Day < Dunedin) and W. H. Speedy (Dannevirke) are staying at the Empire. Mr R. E. Bates, Government Audit Inspector, Wellington, who has been spending his holidays with Mrs Bates. Bowker Street, returned home yesterday. Mr W. C. Shea, passenger manager in Australia for the P. and O. Company, arrived from Sydney by the Marama on Monday on a business trip. He will leave again for Sydney m Saturday.

Mr H. A. Templer, who has been Ashburton manager of the Bank of New South Wales for the last three years, has been transferred to Nelson, but will not take up his new position until after Easter.

Captain I. K. Matheson, private secretary to the Governor of Tasmania (Sir Hubert Nicholls), arrived from Sydney by the Marama on Monday. He intends to spend about a month in New Zealand, mainly in deer shooting in the South Island.

Mr A. G. A. Baigent, M.A.. a graduate of Canterbury College, has received notice of his appointment to a position on the staff of the Palmerston North High School. Mr Baigent is at present relieving on the staff of the West Christchurch District High School. The appointment of Mrs Knox Gilmer, of Wellington, as Government nominee on the Wellington College Board of Governors in succession to the late Mrs E. W. Kane, is announced by the Minister of Education. Mrs Gilmer is the seventh daughter of the late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon. Mr J. B. Callan. K.C.. who will leave Dunedin shortly for Wellington, was tendered a complimentary luncheon by the Dunedin Law Society. Mr M. Joel (president of the Law Students’ Association), presented Mr Callan with a greenstone paperweieght and a case of pipes on behalf of the association. Before his departure for Tauranga where he intends to take up his residence, Mr E. Tamblyn, who has been a prominent figure in Dunedin bowling circles, was tendered a complimentary dinner and presented with a leather suitcase, and a wristlet watch in recognition of his valuable services to the game in Dunedin. The New Zealand Salvation Army headquarters has received advice from General Higgins in London that Commissioner and Mrs Cunningham, who have been in charge of the Army in New Zealand for the last four years and a-half, will relinquish their command next July and proceed to another appointment not yet notified. At the examination for land surveyors’ licenses recently completed by the New Zealand Board in conjunction with the Australian States, the following candidates were granted passes:— Messrs H. G. Gordon (Dunedin). R. P. Gough (Auckland), J. G. M‘Clelland (Timaru). M. H. Mullany (Christchurch), L. D. Nola (Auckland), J. E. Thom (Christchurch). On the recommendation of M. Edouard Joubert, Consul for France at Auckland, and by decree dated January 3, 1934, the French Government has been pleased to confer the distinction of Officer d‘Academie on Messrs A. M. Ferguson, Consul for Belgium in Auckland, and Messrs Maxwell Walker and F. F. Miles, professors at the Auckland University College and Victoria College respectively. Mr Ralph Munn, of Pittsburgh, United States, is due to arrive in New Zealand on a month’s holiday tour in April. Mr Munn. who will be accompanied by his wife, is the head of the Carnegie Library, of Pittsburgh, and will make a survey of libraries in this country and in Australia. Although he has conducted several library surveys in the United States, he has never previously undertaken such a project abroad.

A message from London announces that Mr Paul Cairn Vellacott, M.A.. will succeed Dr. Cyril Norwood, M.A., D.Lit., who recently retired from the headmastership of Harrow, a position he held since 1926. Mr Vellacott has been Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse, Cambridge University since 1920. Bom in 1891, he was educated at Marlborough and Peterhouse, where he had a fine scholastic career. He represented Cambridge at hockey in 1914. As Major in the South Lancashire Regiment, he served in France during the war. He was mentioned in despatches and received the D.S.O. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) will visit Canterbury for Easter. Although he does not intend to occupy his time over the holidays with official business he has arranged to fly over the Lake Ellesmere area to investigate the practicability of a permanent drainage scheme there. On Saturday he will attend the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting at Addington, and on Saturday evening he will be present at the Rangiora High School jubilee celebrations. Mr Forbes expects to return to Wellington on Tuesday evening.

Captain William John Newby, of Auckland, celebrated his 101st birthday on Monday by visiting the Working Men’s Club, to drink a pint of ale with his fellow members. He was wearing the King’s Empire Veterans’ Medal, and also ribbons won when fighting with Garibaldi. Replying to congratulatory speeches, Captain Newby said one of the things most lacking in New Zealand was ability on the part of young men to speak well in public. He requested the Club to form a Debuting Society, and that an hour mighi be spent each evening discussing the country's problems. The president announced the decision to form a society, to be called The Newby Debuting Society, and said Mr Newby would be called on to mak. the opening speech.—Press Association message from Auckland.