PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20256, 16 March 1934, Page 7

PERSONAL.

The Mayor of Christchurch, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., has been elected president of the Municipal Association. Professor J. E. L. Cull, of the Canterbury College School of Engineering, left for Wellington last night. Dr James Hight, rector of Canterbury College, left last night for Wellington, where he will attend a meeting of the University Senate. Mr J. Yernham, aviation officer for the Shell Company of New Zealand, Ltd., left Christchurch yesterday for the West Coast. Mr J. W. Swift, of England, whp has been on a brief business visit to Christchurch, left for Wellington last evening. Professor A H. Tocker, Professor Malcolm, Dr H. G. Denham and Dr J. S. Stenhouse arrived from the north this morning. Messrs D. Reese and G. W. Reid, members of the Railways Board, were passengers from the north this morning. Messrs W. D. G. Hartley (Dunedin), 11. F. Wright and B. L. Jacobs (Auckland) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr George M. Hall, manager of Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd., returned from the North Island by the Wahine this morning. The Hon J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., passed through Christchurch last evening on his way to Wellington to attend a meeting of the University Senate. Guests at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs W. Kirkham (Auckland), 11. W. Scrimshaw, R G. Gower, P. L. Phillips and Dr Charles Begg (Wellington). Mr Herbert Olaf Jacobsen, a Christchurch solicitor, was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court this morning by Mr Justice Johnston, on the motion of Mr J. H. Upham. The following are guests at the New City Hotel: Messrs G. A. Woods' (London), 11. J. Summerville (Auckland), S. M’Kechnie and P. Hodgson (Wellington), F. W. Firkin and R. G. Galloway (Te Aroha) and A. S. Greaves (Tokomaru Bay). Mr G. E. King, the new representative of the Commercial Travellers’ Association on the Lancaster Park Board of Control, was welcomed at last evening’s meeting of the board. He took his place on the board following the retirement of Mr W. C. Flewellen. Mr Malcolm MacLeod, honorary secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association, lias received advice of his promotion from the position of senior clerk of the telegraph engineer’s office of the Post and Telegraph Department at Napier to supervisor of the Nelson branch of the department. Mr W. Machin, jun., aviation officer in New Zealand for the Vacuum Oil Company, who was a passenger from Westport in the Southern Cross, left for Hokitika to-day to attend the South Island aero pageant, which will be held to-morrow. He will rejoin the Southern Cross at a later stage in her South Island tour. The General Committee of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League last evening made reference to the death of Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson. The chairman, Mr J. J. Dougall, said that Sir Arthur had been a man of outstanding capacity. He had been a member of the league and of the General Committee. A motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives. At the last meeting of the Students’ Union council eulogistic references were passed by the rector, Dr J. Hight, speaking to a motion to place on record the very valuable work done in the early history of the union by the chairman of the council, Mr J. G. D. Ward. The motion was supported by Misses A. M. F. Candy, J. Bull and Mr 11. M. S: Dawson. His Honor Mr Justice Johnston was met bj* members of the Law Society at an informal afternoon tea at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. He was introduced to members of the legal profession by the president, Mr C. S. Thomas. Mr Justice Adams and Mr Justice Frazer were also present, as well as Mr H. A. Young, senior Magistrate for New Zealand, and Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., and Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M. The Canterbury branch of the Navy League last evening passed a motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr George Humphreys. The chairman, Mr J. J. Dougall, said that Mr Humphreys had been one of the eight signatories to the charter constituting the branch in 1896. The other signatories were Messrs Isaac Gibbs, H. J. Beswick, John Joyce, F. Weymouth and Wiliam Reece, Captain James Marciel and the Rev E. Eliott Chambers. Mr Humphreys had remained a member to the time of his death. Mr J. S. Watt, of Auckland, a winner of a 1931 Rhodes Scholarship, has been appointed to the staff of the Massey Agricultural College as lecturer in organic chemistry. Mr Watt, who is at present in England, will comitnence duties in the middle of May. Mr Watt, who was born in Western Australia in 1908, attended the Auckland Grammar School, where he won a Senior National Scholarship. lie was a science student at the Auckland University College, and in 1928 was appointed lecturer-demonstrator in chemistry. He took the degree of B.Sc. in 1930, and in the same year was awarded the Sir George Grey scholarship in science. Last year he gained his doctorate of philosophy at Oxford.