PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19784, 7 February 1928, Page 5

PERSONAL

Sir William Sim returned Irom the north yesterday. Foreman J. V. Sahnond will represent tho Dunedin city brigades at the United Eire Brigades’ Association Conference, to bo held at New Plymouth ou February 27 and 28.

An official cable message states that Mr Cosgraye, President of the Irish Free State, left New York by the Olympic on his return to Ireland alter his brief visit to the United States and Canada.

The Hon. George Witty, M.L.C., of Riccarton, Canterbury, left ior the north this morning after a motor tour through Central Otago. At last evening’s meeting of the Green Island Borough Council a motion of sympathy was passed with tho relatives of the late Mrs Elizabeth Freeman, who died recently at the age of ninety years. Mr Frank Shepherd, remembered in Dunedin as lieutenant to Mr Goodman in the installation of our electric tramways, left Dunedin for Wellington this morning. Mr TI. P. Desmoulins, called to Wellington on business, travelled by the through express to-day. Mr T. C. Coull journeyed to Christchurch by to-day’s 11.34 train.

Mr E. Howlison started this morning for Wellington to meet Mr W. A. Morris, the Oxford motor manufacturer.

Mr 11. B. Farnell, public librarian at Invercargill, passed through Bailed in this morning on his way to Christchurch for the Librarians’ Conference. The Bov. H. H. Barton and Mr F. A. Rosercar are on their journey to Wellington for the annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the British and Foreign Bibio Society. At to-morrow night’s mooting of the City Council the mayor will present to Mr Thomas Bennie, of St. Kilda, the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medal for a conspicuous act of bravery in rescuing another from drowning at St. Kilda beach on January 30, 1927.

At the Grand Hotel this afternoon representatives of the allied building trades and other friends of Mr Edmund Anscombe gathered to wisli him bon voyage and hand him a presentation on the eve of his departure, with his two daughters, for a tour of the Old Country, the Continent, and America. Mr George Simpson presided. Mr F. S. Dyson, newly-appointed ns district engineer of the Public Works Department at Dunedin, is not quite ready to come, and until he arrives the duties arc to be carried on by Mr W. G. Pearce, assistant engineer of the Southland district, who '■ame from Invercargill this morning. Mr M. J. Crombie, of Wellington, was last night elected a member of the New Zealand Golf Council in place of Major A. E. Conway, who has resigned owing to his transfer to Taranaki.

After having completed nearly twenty-six years of his pastorate in Trinity Church, Timaru. the Rev. Thomas Stinson, 8.A.. has decided, owing to his medical adviser’s recommendation, to retire from tho charge. His resignation, which has been accepted by the congregation, will take effect from the cud of next month. The Mayor of Port Chalmers (Mr T. . Anderson j was presented last night with an inscribed silver tea service by the councillors as a wedding present. Recent arrivals to the Grand Hotel include Mr W. J. Scholes (Manchester), Mr G. 11. N. Gill, Miss A. M Gill, Miss M. Gill (Walcha, New South Wales), Mr N. G. Henley (Auckland), Mr J. A. llott (Wellington), Mrs and Miss Gunn, Dr and Mrs Harding, Mr L. A. llecsby (Christchurch), Miss E. E. Hart (Wetherstones), Mrs T. A. Nicholson (Invercargill), and Miss Brenda Bell (Waihemo). Latest guests to tho City Hotel include Messrs J. Sutherland. J. 11. Thacker, F. Glaridge (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs H. Meredith (Waimate), Miss G. Spain (Clyde), Nurse Sinclair (Waikato), Mrs T. Rutherford, Misses Rutherford (Queenstown), Mr H. J. Middleton (Invercargill), and Mr G. Lunton (Timaruf New visitors to the Excelsior Hotel include Miss Affleck (Melbourne), Mrs T. G. Amies (Sydney), Messrs 0. W Rainger, J. A. Reeve, J. Wylie, T. M. Johnstone, and J. C. Martin (Auckland), Mr F. R. Shepherd (Wellington), Mr IV. Clark (Christchurch), Messrs H. C. Knubley and H. M. Knubley (Timaru), Mr W. H. Batchelor (Pleasant Point), Mr W. R. Waters (Alexandra), Mr W. Barrett (Gummie’s Bush), Mr G. Jardme (Queenstown).