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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr C. Bell (Christchurch) is a guest at the Dominion. Mr S. Ritchie. Conciliation Commissioner, passed through Timaru oy the express for the south yesterday morning. Messrs M. E. McCausland, J, Raine (Christchurch), A. W. Taylor (Wellington) , and G. Lanham (Dunedin) are registered at the Empire. The Rev. H. E. Leggate. representative of the Central Council of Toe H England, arrived in Timaru by the express from the north yesterday. Mr A. E. Russell, of Balclutha, has been asked to contest the Clutha seat at the general election in the Labour Party’s interests. Mr Geo. Pierce (Fraser Street, Temuka) left to-day for Hobart on a month’s holiday. He will return to New Zealand via Sydney. The Rev. J. G. da Q, Mears, Anglican priest-in-charge of Ngaruawahia. has accepted work in Liston, New South Wales, and will leave at the end of the next month. The Rev. R. B. Tinsley has accepted an invitation to remain in the Auckland Central Circuit for a fifth year. He was thus unable to consider the invitation from the Mornington Circuit to succeed the Rev. E. T. Cox. The Rev. R. Hodgson, vicar of Wae-renga-a-hiha, Poverty Bay, has been appointed vicar of Rotorua, in succession of Archdeacon F. W. Cnatterton. Mr Hodgson will commence his duties on January 1. Recent arrivals at the Grosvenor include —Messrs E. A. Jones, E. J. Denys, G. Fleetwood, L. B. Cumming, A. L. Joyce, D. Fraser, L. J. Moorhouse (Christchurch), A. H, Cramp (Auckland) . M. Jenkins, H. Walsham (Wellington). Mr H. R. Sellers, secretary of the New Zealand Racing Conference, returned to Wellington by the Makura on Monday from a ten weeks’ tour of Australia and the East. He will not, however, be taking over his official duties for another three weeks. Leave of absence from MEv 31 to November 30, 1935, was granted by the Canterbury University College Council on Monday to Mr P. G. Bamford to enable him to visit England. Mr Bamford is attached to the staff of the School of Engineering. At the annual meeting of the Academic Board of the University of New Zealand, which opened at Wellington yesterday. Professor J. Hight, CM.G. (Canterbury), was elected chairman in succession to Professor H. W. Segar (Auckland). Dr. E. G, Gibbs, a son of Dr. H. E. Gibbs, of Wellington, returned by the Makura from Sydney after an absence of ten and a-half years in the Old Country. He spent a year at Knox College, Dunedin, before entering Edinburgh University, where he qualified. Subsequently Dr. Gibbs acted as house surgeon at a number of hospitals, chiefly in London, He intends to settle in New Zealand. Congratulations are extended, in the annual report of the St. Bede’s College Old Boys’ Association, to the Revs. Dr. Geaney and Fathers A. L. Burger and J. Dignan r.i the attainment of the silver jubilee of their ordination, and to the Rev. Fathers Walsh and Plarsison, old boys of the college, on their recent ordination in Rome, as well as the Rev. Fathers Duggan and Gorinski on their brilliant 'holastic successes.