IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17474, 27 February 1925, Page 6

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

NOTES AND ANECDOTES. CHOKING a loss. of £1,800.000, the British Empire Exhibition ot last year was not the success it was expected to be. In the hope of bettering us financial position, the committee, of which Lord Stevenson 's the chairman, : s aiming at extending tlie period jf the Exhibition by re-opening it this year. The Exhibition certainly resulted in giving the Empire and ts products an excellent advertisement, but it is considered doubtful whether the re-opening this year will result in the betterment of its financial position. If the dominions and colonies give it the support expected, however, it is possible that this result may be achiev_ ?d. but the wisdom of re-opening *s doubted in manv countries, wnere it is considered that the exhibition has accomplished all that was expected of it. v v WHEN the Oxford University T>c- ** bating Team visits C hristchurch early in April it. will include amongst its members .Malcolm MacDonald. sou of Mr Ramsay MacDonald. the recently defeated Labour Prime Minister o f En gInnd. "Malcolm MacDonald, who was absent on his present world tour when his father's Government as defeated. recently graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford, and has toured the United States and Canada with the team. When the General Elections [•ame on at Home he stood as a Labour candidate for a. seat which his sister, Ishhcl. tough 1 for him. but be failed to gain the goodwill of the majority of the electors. The visit of a team from the Oxford Union is an event of importance and is creating considerable. interest in University circle* in 1 hristchurch. The team is a particularly strong one. comprising two ex-presidents of the union : Messrs M (. Mollis (Balliol College). J. B Woodruff (New College), and also Mr MacDonald. The visitors will be the guests of the local University Students’ Association and will debate with the University Debating Club and also with graduates of the University. * v T)OETESS, feminist, and sociologist, L Miis Jessie Aback ay, of Cashmere, is one of the best-known and liked women in Canterbury. Miss Alackay, who comes of a well-krfbwn Canterburv fa mi Iv, was at one time Editress of the. “ Cante rbur y Times,” and Ims tor to the Press of the Dominior and Australia fot a long period of years. Her poetry has gained for her a name that is not likely to he forgotten in a few years, as also hard her social works. lntenselv interest ed ir. all matters concerning women Miss Mackey has devoted much of her tiipe to a study of these ouestions and has never faltered in publishing hei ideas. She took a prominent part in the discussions in New Zealand that preceded the granting of selfdetermination to Ireland and was -one of New Zealand's delegates to thr Trish conference on self determination held m Paris a tew years ago. anci attended by Irish delegates from all over the world. Miss Alackay is alsc a strong prohibitionist. «5» V TJECEXTLY appointed Chief Justice of New Sou - h Wales, the lion Phi li p Whistler Street was sworn-in i Sydney a week ?o, before a dense-'-crowded Court. Ir Justice Street, ho is sixty-two urn iii Darling'urst. lie was died to the Bar i 1888 and has id a very distin- - jished career. lie /as first elevated to the Bench in 190 G as ActingJudge of the Supreme Court. Tn 1907 he was appointed Judge in Bankruptcy and Probate Jurisdictions, and later was made Chief Judge in Equity. Tn thanking the members of the legal profession at the recent 'ceremony at which he was sworn in. Mr Justice Street said that no one recognised more fully than he the responsibilities of his high office and the supreme importance to the welfare of the community that was attached to the proper performance of its duties. w » 1 EAVTNG by the Aorangi for a visit u to the Old Countrv. the Rev A. T. Thomp so n, I.A. 8.D.. will arry with him the ood wishes of all /ho arc interested i the work of the British and h'orign Bible Society. Ir Thompson was [mister of St Anrew's Presbyterin Church, Christhurch, the mother hurch of Cantcrui rv. when ho took up the agency of Zealand, and he. has now been appointed to unify the societv's efforts in Australia Id New Zealand lie win be best remembered in connection with the establishment ol church schools, notably St Andrew's, Christ church.