PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 19999, 5 January 1935, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr J. Samuel, Christchurch, is staying at the Empire. Mr H. H. Fraser left yesterday on a visit to Invercargill. Professor P. M. Baines, Christchurch, is a guest at the Grosvenor. Mr E. P. Ryan. “Te Ngawai,” Sutherlands. returned yesterday from a trip to Melbourne and Sydney. Engineer Rear-Admiral G. W. Bodell, is visiting the Dominion on a fishing holiday. The Rev. Father Leo. Spring, S.M., of Reefton. arrived yesterday on a short visit to Timaru. Mr W. T. Ritchie, Dunedin, is visiting Timaru, and is staying at the Grosvenor. Mr E. C. Smith, of Gore, left on Thursday, en route to Japan and Manila, where he will attend the Rotary conference. Dr A. G. Couston. of the County Mental Hospital. Chester, will arrive at Wellington by the Rotorua from London on January 22 to take up an appointment with the Mental Hospitals Department. After nearly 40 years’ service on the staff of the Customs Department at Auckland. Mr W. D. Grant, boarding inspector for a long period, has retired. A presentation of a handsome clock was made to him. Dr M. Barak has resigned from the staff of King’s College, London, to take up an appointment as research director of an important Manchester firm. Dr * Barak, a Rhodes Scholar from Canterbury College, was a lecturer in chemistry at King’s, and the staff gave a farewell luncheon in his honour. Mr Gilbert Read, of Feilding. who is at present in Melbourne as'a member of the New Zealand contingent at the scout jamboree, has received advice that he has been accepted for an exchange position in Brisbane for the coming year, under the system of exchanging school teachers between the New Zealand Education Department and the Australian authorities.