PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19035, 2 April 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL.

Messrs Algar Williams and Robert Arlow arirved from the north by this morning’s ferry steamer. The Hon G. Witty, M.L.C., arrived from the north this morning. Mr E. J. Dennehy was a passenger from the north this morning. Messrs C. W. Rickard (Wellington) and K. Sohno (Japan) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Mr Reginald Keith Gardiner, of Oamaru, has been appointed clerk to the Waitaki County Council. Mr Thomas Guthrie, for some time acting-secretary of the Oamaru Harbour Board, has been appointed its secretary. /Messrs E. F. Tanner, G. C. Edwarde ('"Wellington) and John Bowen (Sydney) are recent arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel. The election by the Academic Board of three members of the University Senate resulted in the return of Profes-1 sors J. R. Brown (Wellington), J. Hight (Christchurch) and H. W. Segar (Auckland) . Mr W. B. Fuller was welcomed by the chairman, Mr A. E. M’Phail, at last night’s meeting of the Management Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union as the first representative of the Referees’ Association. Messrs H. H. Le Pine. J. S. Duke, C. Monro, H. S. Newton, J. Forbes (’Wellington), H. N. Hilliard, E, Fulton (Auckland) and D. L. Williams (Newark, N.J., U.S.A.), are staying at the United Service Hotel. The congregation of the Barrington Street Presbyterian Church met on Monday evening to bid farewell to the Rev E. Swinerd, who is leaving the

church, and to welcome Mr A. G. Davidson, who has been appointed home missionary to the Church for a period. Representatives of various Church activities made presentations to the Rev Mr Swinerd.

Captain J. G. C. Wales, Adjutant of the Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment, who was in camp at Trentham with the military police force training for Samoa, has resumed duties at Auckland headquarters. Captain F. L. Hunt, formerly of Dunedin, who acted as Adjutant during Captain Wales’s absence, has been appointed relieving Adjutant of the North Auckland Regiment, in place of Captain A. de T. Nevill, who has been appointed Assistant-Director of Air Services in Wellington. A petition signed by a thousand parishioners of Avonside was presented to the Rev Otho Fitz Gerald last evening at a vestry meeting, asking him to reconsider his decision to leave the parish. The petition was the outcome of Mr Fitz Gerald’s intimation that he had decided to go to St Saviour’s Church, Sydenham. Mr Fitz Gerald will make a statement in a few days.

There was a large attendance of the congregation at the Linwood Methodist Church last evening, when a farewell function was held in honour of the Rev Harold Sharp, who has been minister for the past four years, and who has been transferred to Lower Hutt, Wellington. The Rev W. Greenslade, superintendent of the Christchurch East circuit, said that it was a serious business saying good-bye to Mr and Mrs Sharp and their family. Mr Sharp was one of the most loving, one of the most industrious and gifted ministers in the church. Mr 11. Harrington, the oldest member of the church, presented Mr Sharp

with a leather suitcase, and Mrs Dower presented Mrs Sharp with a case of cutlery. Presentations were also made to the members of Mr Sharp’s family. Mr Sharp returned thanks for the kind references, and the presents made to his family. If they had been enabled to achieve anything it was because the congregation had assisted them. Colonel T. A. Hunter, late Director of Dental Hygiene, has been appointed to represent New Zealand dentists at the fiftieth anniversary of the British Dental Association, which will meet in May, states a Press Association message from W ellington. He left on the Remuera, which was expected to sail at dawn to-day. The British Association asked the New Zealand Association to nominate a member to be elected to its honorary membership, and Colonel Hunter also received this honour. Prior to his departure the members of the dental services throughout the Dominion presented him with a silver salver emblazoned with a medallion symbolical of the service, and two enlarged and framed portraits of himself, one of which will hang in the room of the Director and the other in the Training School at Dunedin. Since he was the originator and the first Director of the service, Colonel Hunter also received a presentation from the headquarters of the Health Department.