PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir George Fenwick started this morning lor 'Wellington on Prisons Board business. , r Mr D. M. Fustier and Mr J. J- Marlow loft for Christchurch this morning to attend a meeting of the Dominion Bowling Council. Mr W. 0. ATKollar travelled to-day by train to Oamaru. Mr Parker AFKinlay went north by to-day’s 11.34 train. Mr J. T. Marlin loft by the through express this morning, hound for W ellington. Mr J. E. Wheeler was a passenger for Christchurch by the 11.34 train today. , ~ ~ Mr Forsyth Johnson loft this morning for Wellington. The commercial travellers flag was at half-mast to-dav on account of the death of Mr Waller Wright, one of its oldest members. . The death is announced in Wellington of Mr John Haynes, the surviving son of the late Mr Daniel Haynes of Dunedin. , , Mr W r . J. Morrell, head master of the Otago Boys’ High School, has received advice from England that his son, Mr W. P. Morrell, ALA., late Lo„s fellow of Knox College, ami now ol Balliol College, Oxford, had the degree of doctor of philosophy conterred on him at a, congregation on July -3. degree, which requires three years lesidonco at Oxford, and for which AH Morrell qualified in January, vas awarded for research in history dealing with the Colonial Secretaryship ol: Earl Grey (184G-52L Mr Morrell is at present collaborating with the Beit lecturer in colonial history at Oxford on a source book of colonial history for the earlier half of the nineteenth century, ■\v3iich uili soon bo ready for the public from the Oxford Press. The vacancy on the staff of tlieiaimerston North Hospital by the resign a- . tion of its late matron has now been filled, Miss Janet N. ATGhio, of Dun- . ediu, having been appointed to fill tins i position. Miss has bad a Jonjj; ; and distinguished career of public sei- , vice in the nursing profession. hue ; qualified .in June, 1610, afterwards be- j intr appointed sister at the dialer J.il- ( rate Hospital, of which she was later ; matron until lf)16. She then left New Zealand with the Army Nursing bervice. Upon her return Miss M Glue was appointed to positions under the military authorities in the Camhiidge Sanatorium, tbe Christchurch _Oithomedic Hospital, and in other institutions. For tlio past two and a-half years Miss ATGhio Ims been at Rotorua as a tutor sister at the King George \ . Hospital. At that hospital she was also sister-in-chargo of the theatre ami of the plaster department. Mi- A. K. Smith, secretary and manager oi the Lyttelton Co-opciati\o Waterside Labor* Employment Association, died on Saturday from pneumonia, contracted only a few days ago. His sister, Miss Ethel Smith, a registered nurse, died at Lyttelton on Sunday last following an attack of influenza, ine late Mr" Smith was forty-five years ol ai»c. He was secretary of the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club, and was a member of the Lyttelton and 1 Diamond Harbor Golf Clubs. He took a keen interest in all sport. He served in the late war with the Ibth Reinforcements. Hi-s kindly and genial disposition gained him a host of inends throughout the South Island. —Christchurch correspondent. Mr A. G. Blake, bond master ot Lyall Bay School, Wellington, since the openiim, retires from active service at the eiM ot the present year. Steps arc being taken to locate all ex-scholars and to form an old scholars’ association to take an active part in the farewell and afterwards to foster the traditions of tho school and keep alive its history. The committee has asked an old chairman (Mr A. Sando) to form Die nidation and to get into touch With the hundreds who have studied umlei All Blake. , , , „ Air ami Airs D. Gordon Alitchell returned to Dunedin on Saturday after 1 spending an extended holiday in tno Wairarapa district. . I Now visitors to the Grand Hotel include Air O. F. Taylor (Akron, U.S.A.), ! Aliss J. Gordon (Wellington), Air John L. Vergette (Napier), Messrs D. d. 1 Richardson and D. N. Amlerson I (Christchurch), Mrs W. E. Mitchell : and Miss AI. Aliichell (Invercargill). I Recent arrivals to the Excelsior I Hotel include Air W. Liugford (Auckland), Alessrs L. Trior and L. B. Hart, Air and Mrs A. K. Johnson (Christchurch), Air Gilchrist (Invercargill), and Alessrs J. Gilchrist ami D. G. Rocker (Oturchua).