PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19241, 1 December 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr H. B. Legge (Dunedin) is an arrival at Warner’s Hotel. Messrs F. W. Hart, A. S. Louisson and T. Capstick (Wellington) are guests at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr J. B. M’Callum (Blenheim) is a guest at the United Service Hotel. The Rev Father A. Cullen, S.M., at present relieving at Timaru, in place of the Very Rev Dean Holley, S.M., who is at Rotorua, will go to St Patrick’s College, Wellington, in the New Year. The Rev C. B. Boggis, an outgoing student of the New Zealand Baptist College, has been appointed to the pastorate of the Island Bay Baptist Church, and will be inducted on Thursday evening. Mr H. A. Price, manager at Gore of Wright, Stepheqson and Co., Ltd., has been appointed to the directorate of the company. Mr Price has been connected with the company for the last 27 years. The Rev Frank Rule, who retired from the position of Superintendent of the Presbyterian Social Service Association in Christchurch at the end of last month, is visiting Hanmer Springs at present, and is expected to return to town about the middle of this month. Mr F. G. A. Stuckey, Senior Inspector of Schools in Otago, has completed his career in the Public Service, and his retirement on superannuation will date from to-day. On Saturday morning his colleagues at the Education Office presented him with a case of pipes. Dr Ralph Noble, of Sydney, who represented the Commonwealth at the first International Congress on Mental Hygiene } recently held at Washington, will arrive in Wellington by the Makura from San Francisco on December 15. Dr Noble also represented the New Zealand Council of Mental Hygiene at 'the conference. Mr Edgar R. Williams, a Christchurch engineer, has been appointed engineering instructor at the Westport Technical High School, and will take up his duties at the beginning of the first term in 1931. Mr Williams is a mountaineer of note, and is a vicepresident of the Christchurch Mountaineering Club. Sir Harry Haward, who recently resigned from the Central Electricity Board of Great Britain, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi on a holiday visit. He will spend eight weeks. in the Dominion before leaving to visit i relatives in Tasmania. He was a former comptroller of the London Count}’ Council.

Archdeacon F. G. Neild, of AH Saints’, Condobolin, New South Wales, who hopes to celebrate the jubilee of his ordination in March next, and then to retire from parochial work, has, during his ministry, travelled about 229,000 miles, and held about 10,000 services. Born in New Zealand in 1854, he is a son of the late Dr J. C. Neild. He went to Sydnev as a boy and was educated at public schools and Camden College.

A farewell function took place in the Valuation Department’s office on Saturday to mark the retirement of Mr D. 11. Pullar, senior district valuer for Christchurch city and suburbs. lie was presented with a hunting watch from the valuers and staff, and with a case of pipes from his old colleagues in the Wellington office. Mr Pullar has been thirty-six years in the Department.

The MajDr of Wellington, Mr G. A. Troup, has been advised by his doctor to spend a few weeks at Helensville, to see whether the mineral bath treatment there will benefit him, and he will leave for the north with Mrs Troup this week. The death occurred yesterday morning at Ashburton County Hospital of Mr George Rogers. The late Mr Rogers, a well-known motor engineer, had been in ill-health for some time and was admitted to the institution on Friday last. It was pleasant, said Mr Kihkby, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Stock Exchange, to know that he would be succeeded in the chair by so old and trusty a member as Mr E. Bucholz, whom he had been instrumental in inducing to take up sharebroking in the early days. The appointment was unanimously made by members, and he welcomed Mr Bucholz to the chair. The Rev John Watson, formerly of Auckland, recently ordained to the Presbyterian Church, has been inducted to the charge of the Normanby district. He is a son of Mr P. F. Watson, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College, and obtained his M.A. degree at O tago U niversity. A teacher who took a great interest in New Zealand botany, Mr Harry Carse, of Moata Road, Onehunga, has died at Auckland Hospital in his seventy-fourth year. Mr Carse came to New Zealand about forty-five years ago, and was the first teacher at Chelsea. Thereafter, he spent many years teaching at Kaitaia until he retired to live in Auckland, ten years ago. His studies in botany won for him a wide circle of friends, and he left a large collection of New Zealand flora to Canterbury College, Christchurch.