PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18544, 18 August 1928, Page 4

PERSONALS

Pf J. S. Eljiott is leaving by the Rotorua for England. Archbishop Averifl, Primate of New Zealand, is at present in Wellington. Mr D. Rebellion, Dominion organiser fox the Reform Party, is visiting Auok« l*nd-

Mr A. P. S. puncan v?as among the passengers who left by the Maheno yesterday for Sydney. The Rev Canon and Mrs Small, of Pnnedin, are returning to New Zealand by the Gorinthic.

Sir William is a passenger on the Corinthie, which is due at Wellington bn August 27 from Southampton.

Mr B- Reynolds has been re-elected president, and Mr D. F. Bauehop vicepresident, of the New Zealand Wholesale Motor and Cycle Traders’ Association.

Colonel J. Studholme, accompanied by Mrs Studholme, is leaving by the Rotorua for England to-day. Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., has been appointed Chairman of the Lands Committee of the House of Representatives. Archbishop Redwood, Archbishop O’Shea, and the Rev Father Smytho left Wellington yesterday by the Maheno to ' attend the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney. Mr A. Burns has been re-elected president of the Auckland Education Board, members expressing their appreciation of his four years’ sterling service as chairman, and his fifteen years’ membership.

Pr Robert T. Johnson (Edinburgh! senior house surgeon at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. Loiidon, has been appointed medical officer to the Queensland Education Department. He will take control oi ophthalmic work in the Department among western school children, and will be in charge of the Brisbane hostel. Sir Frederick Chapman is visiting Sydney. For twenty years prior to. his retirement in 1921, Sir Frederick was a fudge of the supFeme Coqrt of New Zealand, and for two terms of office was chairman of the War Pensions Appeal Board. An ancestor of his was W. N- Chapman, who was one of the earliest arrivals in New South Wales, and who was secretary to Governor King, in 1791. Sir Mark Sheldon, who has left Sydney for the United States and Canada, will be engaged for some time on extensive business investigations. Among the matters that will engage his attention while abroad will be the supply of paper to Australia by American and Canadian mills. Among his many inSir Mark is managing directo • of Carmichael and Co., Ltd., paper merchant*.

As Mr J. F. Tapley is the only person who has been nominated to fill the vacancy on the Mount Herbert County Council, he has been declared duly elected.

Mr D. W. Dunlop, advisory inspector to the Auckland Education Board, has been appointed secretary its succession to Mr E. C. Purdie, who is retiring after forty-one years’ educational ser-

Passengers by the ferry steamer th>' morning included Bishop Richard (Dunedin), Captain H. Monro, the Hon D. Buddo, M.P., Messrs G. Forbes M.P., and H. S. S. Kyle, M.P. Approval has been given by the Gov-ernor-General in Council to the appointment of Sir William Noble «,o represent the Commonwealth of Australia at the International Telegraph Conference, to be held at Brussels next, month. Sir William Noble was formerly engineer-in-charge of the British Post Office. He is a director of the General Electric Company and of the British Broadcasting Company. The many friends of the Rev Norman L. D. Webster (who is at present in Sydney) will be pleased to J«arn that he is making good progress and hopes soon to be out of the doctor's hands. In a private letter he States that he intends to. visit Melbourne in September, principally to hear the Rev James Black, the distinguished Scottish preacher, who is on an tvchange visit to Scots Church, Melbourne Mr Webster is eagerly looking forwadr to returning to his work at St Andrew’s, and hopes to return to Christchurch about November 10.

The death is announced of Sir George Otto Trevelyan at the age of ninety years, says an Australian Press Associa-tion-United Service cable from London. The Right Hen Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bt., D.M.. P.C., LL.D., D.C.L., D.L., after a distinguished political career, resigned his seat, as member for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow, and retired in 1897, thereafter devoting himself to literature. He was born in 1838, and after passing through Harrow and Trinity College. Cambridge, where he obtained first-class honours in the Classical Tripos, he entered the House of Commons as member for Tynemouth in 1863. Later he represented Hawick Burghs, and was member for Bridgeton. Glasgow, from 1887-97. During his Parliamentary career he was successively Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Chancellor of the jDuchy of Lancaster, and Secretary for Scotland. His publications include: “The Ladies in Parliament,” “Horace at the University of Athens,” “The Competition Wallah,” “Cawnpore,” “The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay,” “The Early History of. Charles Janies Fox,” “The American Revolution in Prose and Verse,” and “George lit. and Charles Fox.”