PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18614, 16 November 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

Messrs J. Harris (Napier) and J. G. Neil (Dunedin) are at the Clarendon Hotel.

The Hon. Mr Justice Frazer, and Messrs A. L. Monteith and G. T. Booth, of the Arbitration Court, left for Wellington last evening. Mr O. G. Thornton, resident engineer, Public Works Department, Paeroa, nas been promoted to be district engineer at Gisborne. Mr D. Brown, B.Sc., of Leeds University, has been appointed lecturer in physics at the Auckland University College. Mr M. Rudd, who has been acting as manager at the Union Company’s Christchurch branch for the last nine months, has returned to his post as assistant manager in Auckland. The Hon. W. Nosworthy, who has been in Ashburton for some days, will leave for Wellington this evening. He will attend a meeting of Cabinet tomorrow. Mr Richard Brophy, of New York, manager for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, is a guest at the United Service Hotel. He will leave for Dunedin by to-night’s express. At a meeting of the English and Scottish Bank, says a London cable, Lord Knutsford, on behalf of the directors, shareholders and staff, presented Mr Andrew Williamson with his portrait, painted by Sir Alfred Cope, in recognition of his services as a director during the past ten years. Mr A. G. Anton, who has been promoted from the Dunedin Chief Post Office to the position of senior supervisor of the postal branch in the Napier Post Office, was presented with a solid leather travelling bag and fountain pen by the Dunedin staffs. Mr L. B. Campbell, district engineer, Public Works Department, Auckland, has received notice of his promotion to the position of inspecting engineer, Wellington, and will leave to take up his new duties early in the New Year. He will be succeeded at Auckland by Mr F. S. Dyson, Dunedin.

Messrs C. Sander, D. A. Todd, A. H. Wilson, N. Schrader, J. Y. Richardson (Wellington), B. M. Paar (New York), A. H. Cramp (Auckland) and G. N. Brown (Jersey City, U.S.A.) are recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel. At last night’s meeting of the Victory Park Board of Control, a motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr J. F. Peake was passed. A further resolution of sympathy with Mr R. B. Ward, in the death of his wife’s mother, was also passed. Mr H. A. G. Clark, minister-elect of the Church of Christ, Dominion Road, Auckland, arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa from Sydney on Tuesday. Mr Clark was a missionary in China when the recent trouble caused the Consul to close the station. While awaiting re-opening Mr Clark went to Yale University and took his B.D. degree, gaining first place in his year. He has since visited England, Europe and Austalia, studying religious and social conditions. Mr Clark has had a distinguished scholastic career. He was for a time a teacher at Scots College, Melbourne, and is a most popular preacher. He is also an enthusiast in athletics, football, cricket and ten-

Last evening a farewell social was tendered to the Rev John V. Jacobson, the Rev T. W. Armour presiding. There were also present the Rev H. Sharp (Methodist), the Rev B. Stuart (Baptist) and the Rev John Miller. Items were given by Mr Percy Caithness, Mr Harry Francis and Miss Connie Wilson. During the evening Mr J. Hislop presented Mr Jacobson with a beautiful chiming clock. Among the passengers who arrived at Sydney last week by the steamer Nieuw Zeeland from Singapore was Mr H. Garson, of Paramount Pictures Incorporated, who has been engaged during the past six months in making cinematograph films of wild life in Dutch Borneo. The jungles of Borneo, he said, were teeming with an amazing variety of animal life, and were in many parts quite unexplored.