PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20930, 8 January 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs J. Bettie and J. H. Smith (Christchurch) are staying at the Grand.

Messrs F. Henderson (Auckland), T. T. Allan and N. W. Allan (Dunedin) are at the Dominion.

Messrs S. Teal, W. B. Leete, R. T. Couper and R. E. Free (Christchurch) are staying at the Grosvenor.

Messrs J. A. Cant, D. D. Tucker, H. J. Armstrong (Christchurch), J. G. Gibbs (Palmerston North), H. J. Wicks (Greymouth) and Dr. O. H. Frankell (Christchurch) are registered at the Empire.

The Rev. Father John W. Dowling, Rector of Silverstream College, will shortly retire. His successor is the Rev. Father John Kennedy, who for the last two years has been Rector of the Marist Fathers’ Novitiate, Highden, Palmerston North.

Mr Gilbert Archey, director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, who has been visiting museums in several overseas countries under the terms of a Carnegie Corporation grant, is due to return to Auckland on January 21 by the Monterey from San Francisco. Sir John Maynard Hedstrom, managing director of Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd., of Fiji, has resigned from both the Legislative Council and the Executive Council of Fiji. He has been a member of the Legislative Council since 1908 and of the Executive Council since 1917. Sir Maynard was born in Levuka more than 65 years ago.

A change in the directorship of the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, is announced. The Rev. Brother Borgia has been appointed director in succession to the Rev. Brother Tarcisius. Brother Borgia, who was born in South Canterbury and educated in Sydney, has taught at many Marist Brothers schools. He was director of the Sacred Heart College from 1922 to 1928, and was honoured in 1930 by being appointed Provincial Supervisor of the Order in South Africa. He held that office until he returned to New Zealand last year to rejoin the staff of the Sacred Heart College.

The Rev. W. E. Lambert, pastor of the Esk Street Baptist Church, Invercargill, will retire at the end of February after 41 years of service in the ministry. Mr Lambert became a student pastor at Brooklyn in 1897 and remained there for three years. For two years he studied in Christchurch under the guidance of the Rev. J. J. Doke and the Rev. J. J. North. He served in Greendale for five years, after which period he removed to Ashburton,, spending four years there. Leaving Ashburton he served six years in Nelson, five in Whangarei, eight in Thames, four in Mosgiel and four and a half in Invercargill.