PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr A. W. Baker (Auckland) is staying at the Grand.

Mr J. A. Fraser, Hastings, is on a visit to Timaru.

Mr A. C. Mclnnes has return from a visit to Invercargill.

Messrs C. D. Brice, D. C. Miller (Christchurch) and T. Peach (Hakataramea) are guests at the Balmoral.

Messrs I. A. Murray (Nelson), W. G. Murray, J. Muhro (Christchurch) and C. A. Haig (Dunedin) are staying at the Grosvenor.

Messrs R. W. McSkimming (Benhar), E. Taylor, S. Boon (Christchurch), R. M. Craig and J. C. Paul (Dunedin) are staying at the Dominion. Mr Alan Wylie, of Auckland, holder of the Shirtcliffe Science Scholarship, has entered upon a two-ydars’ course of research work at London University.

Professor J. Rankine Brown, of Victoria University College, who has been visiting Britain and the Continent, will leave for New Zealand by the Tainul on January 14.

Mr David Blair, Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, London, A.R.C.M., L.R.A.M., London, has been appointed organist and choirmaster at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington.

Mr A. G. Burrell, of the Inspector’s Audit and Relieving Staff, Wellington, is relieving Mr J. O. Templer, manager of the Bank of New South Wales. Geraldine, who is on holiday leave.

Mr K. M. Griffin, Government analyst at Auckland, Who is on his way back to New Zealand after a visit to England, is a passenger by the Oronsay, which is due at Sydney from London on January 26.

Messrs S. J. Flewellyn, G. W. C. Smithson (Christchurch), J. W. Sutherland, B. A. W. Sutherland (Wanganui), J. Sutherland, W. M. Sutherland (Benmore), W. R. Selwyn and E. North (Dunedin) are registered at the Empire.

Mr Graham Roberts, London manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, will leave London for Australia this week. He will spend two or three months there and will then visit New Zealand on a tour of the company’s branches.

The Rev. W. Langston, vicar of All Saints’ Church, Eltham, has been offered and lias accepted the charge of All Saints’ Church, Kilbimle, in succession to Canon D. J. Davies, who was appointed recently to the position of vicar of St. Paul’s ProCathedral at Wellington. Mr Langston was ordained in Canada, and arrived in the Dominion from England in 1926. He was vicar at Mangaweka from 1926 to 1932, when he was appointed vicar of Eltham. The staff of the Colonial Mutual Life Insurance Co. gathered to say farewell to their superintendent, Mr E. Lawrence, on the eve of his departure for South Africa. Mr C. Payne, in making a presentation on behalf of the staff, referred to the co-operation and the spirit of amity that had existed between the staff and Mr Lawrence. Besides wishing him bon voyage, he expressed the regret of his fellow-servants at Mr Lawrence’s departure. In replying, Mr Lawrence expressed his appreciation of the gift, and said he was sorry to leave New Zealand, particularly his fellow-workers, who were so loyal and friendly.