PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18642, 20 December 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

Mr D. Allan (Wellington) is a guest at Warner’s Hotel.

Sir John Roberts was a passenger by the ferry steamer from Wellington this morning. The Rev Hector N. Maclean, M.A., Ph.D., will be inducted into the pastoral charge of the New Brighton Presbyterian Church this evening. Mr J. B. Henry, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland, who is indisposed, entered a private hospital on Sunday for treatment. The Rev V. H. Courtney, of Auckland. who is studying at St Patrick’s College, Manly, Sydney, arrived from Svdney by the Niagara on Monday He will spend a holiday in the Dominion. Mr A. C. Logan, 8.A., has been appointed assistant master in the secondarv department at John M’Glashan College. He was educated at the Otago Bo3 r s’ High School, and has had a distinguished career at Otago University. Mr James Warnock, who was badly injured through being knocked down by a motor-truck out of control in Niagara recently, will return to Auckland by the Aorangi, which arrives on December 30. Captain C. A. Osbourne, of the 2nd Battalion of the 11th Sikh Regiment, arrived by the Marama from Sydney. He will spend some time in the Dominion fishing. Mr Robert K. Angus, .a well-known advertising man in Brisbane, returned to New Zealand by the Marama on Tuesday. Mr Angus is a son of Mr Robert Angus, New Zealand manager for Thomas Cook and Son. Dr R. Mitchell Mackay, chief medical referee under the Workers’ Compensation Act to the Government of New South Wales, arrived by the Maunginui from Sydney, having come to the Dominion for a holiday. Dr P. Clennell Fenwick, of the Hospital Board’s Radium Department, returned from the south on Tuesday evening, and leaves to-day for Greymouth. He intends returning on Saturday. Mr W. S. Bennett, manager of Dalgety and Co.’s Wellington branch, has been appointed superintendent for New Zealand, in place of Mr W. D. Stewart, who has been promoted to the position of superintendent in Australia, in succession to Sir Henry Braddon, the old Otago Rugby player. Mr H. N. Eiby, of Hamiltaon, steps up into the position vacated by Mr Bennett, and Mr J. B. Moodie becomes sub-manager of the Wellington branch. The members of the Shirley School Committee and Baths Committee met at the school for the purpose of wishing the chairman, Mr C. S. Thompson, a pleasant voyage and holiday in Australia. Various members present spoke of Mr Thompson’s untiring services rendered during the twelve years he had worked in connection with the school. Reference was also made to the way in which Mrs Thompson had worked in conjunction with her husband. Mr Stanley, on behalf of those present, presented Mr Thompson with a silver cigarette case and a box of cigarettes, at the same time wishing Mr Thompson a pleasant voyage and a wellearned holiday. Mr Thompson suitably acknowledged the gift. About 100 of the emj)loyees of Messrs A. and T. Burt, Limited, at Auckland, met at a smoke concert on Saturday evening to bid farewell to Mr Alexander Burt, a well-known yachtsman and founder of the Auckland branch of the firm, who is leaving for Dunedin to take up the position of managing director of the company. The general manager of the company, Mr J. H. Johnson, presided. Mr M. Allan presented Mr Burt with an illuminated address from the employees, and referred to the great esteem in which he was held. Other speakers also paid tribute to the fine qualities of Mr Burt, and expressed regret at his departure.

Captain Oliphant, Marine Superintendent of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, arrived from the north this morning. Mr A. J. M’Eldowney, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A., will leave tonight for the North Island on vacation. The Canterbury College Board of Governors at its meeting yesterday expressed its sympathy with Dr A. J. Orchard in his illness. Leave of absence for nine months was granted to Mr A. R. V. Morten at a meeting of the General Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association yesterday. Mr Morten is leaving on a trip to England. The thanks of the Canterbury College Board of Governors have been extended to Mr'G. J. Lancaster, head master of the Christchurch Boys’ High School, for the gift to the college library of fourteen publications on the higher mathematics. The Canterbury College Board of Governors reported yesterday that a letter, written on. behalf of Professor Bickerton, has been received expressing his gratitude at being appointed Professor Emeritus, and his appreciation of the action of the New Zealand Government in granting him an annuity. The death of Mr Joseph Hanna was referred to at last night’s meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council. The Mayor (Mr H. Manhire) said that the late Mr Hanna sat on the first council and was instrumental in the formation of the borough, in which he had always taken a keen interest. The meeting stool in silence as a mark of sympathy with the relatives.

The Right Rev Leonard S. Kempthorne, Bishop in Polynesia since 1923, arrived from Papeete by the Makura. He will remain in New Zealand for a month, and will spend a fortnight at Nelson on a visit to his parents, Archdeacon and Mrs Kempthorne, who recently celebrated their golden wedding. Bishop Kempthorne, who had been on a tour of portion of his extensive diocese, was unable to land at Rarotonga owing to an epidemic of sickness in Tahiti. He will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on January 15, on his return to Suva.

From a large number of applicants, Mr Christopher Perkins was selected by the Wellington Technical College Board of Governors for the position of life drawing and painting master at the Hutt School. Mr Perkins, who is thirty-seven years of age, is a draughtsman and painter of wide experience, who, for some years, has held one-man exhibitions in London, and has shown work at the more important exhibitions in England. Receiving his early art training at the Slade School of Art, London. Mr Perkins gained further experience at the British Academv, Rome, and Arena Goldoni, Florence. He has had some years of experience as an art master in English schools, and among his more recent private work is a series of portraits of eminent living composers. Jt is expected that he will leave England early in the new year.

The second son of Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales. Mr Somerset de Chair, arrived from Sydney by the Niagara on Monday. After spending a holiday in the Dominion with his mother, father and sister, he will go to England to enter Balliol College, Oxford. Lady de Chair and Miss de Chair are alreadv in New Zealand, awaiting the arrival of Sir Dudley from England by the Remuera at the end of the month, and the family will remain here until the end of January. Unlike his brother, Lieutenant H, G. D. de Chair, of the New Zealand Navy, and his father, Mr Somerset de Chair does not contemplate a life at sea. He received his secondarv education at The King’s School, Parramatta, Sydney, and he will study at Oxford with a view to entering politics in England.