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Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mi t). Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, will arrive in Dunedin on Satur day next, accompanied by his private secretary (Mr F. G. Matthews). Mr G. J. Anderson, Minister of Labor and Mines, came from Gore by the express train this morning, accompanied by Mr F. W. Sherwood, his private secretary. The Minister spent to-day in Dunedin, and is arranging to be in Wellington on Sunday morning. Miss Jean Young Gourloy has been appointed to the position of staff nurse at the Pleasant Valley Sanatorium.

Mr J. Davidson, senior workshop instructor at the Technical High School, has been notified that he has qualified for associate member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Constable Arthur Skinner, of Tauranga, a champion wrestler and record hammer thrower in his day, is visiting old friends in Dunedin. Ho returns north on Monday. The officers of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, assembled to say farewell to Miss M. M. B. Cook, who has been granted leave prior to retirement. Mr Pcnlington, chief postmaster, spoke in appreciation of her long and faithful service, and on behalf of the officers presented her with a gold expanding wristlet watch and a rug. At the meeting of the High School Board of Governors yesterday afternoon the board accepted with regret the resignation of Miss N. Dalrymplc. In doing so it carried the following motion: —“That the board places on record its high appreciation of the efficient and conscientious manner in which Miss Dalrymple has discharged all her duties in the board’s office and at the Boys’ High School, and authorises the payment to her of a bonus of £lO as a mark of its aprociation; it expresses also its best wishes for the future happiness of herself and her husband.”

The death during the holidays of Master John Edward MacManus, son of Mr J. B, MacManus, of Mosgiel, was referred to with regret in the Rector’s report of the Otago Boys’ High School, which was submitted to the Board of Governors at its meeting yesterday. The Rector stated that Master MacManus had for four years been a pupil of the school, but had been absent in the hospital during the whole of last year. He was a boy of good ability and pleasant disposition, and much sympathy had been felt with him in his long illness. He expressed the school’s deep sympathy with his family in their loss. _ Recent arrivals to the Grand Hotel include Mr Stanley Crouch (London), Mr W. A. Maling (Boston, United States of America), Mr F, H. Perrim (Calcutta). Mr Ronald Sutherland (Sydney), Mr E. Hedlcy Leggo (Bendigo), Mr anti Mrs R. Knox Dobbie (Longreach, Queensland), Mr C. A. Crosher (Auckland), Dr J. S. Maclaurin, Hon. G. J. Anderson, Mr F. M. Sherwood, and Miss D. Frost (Wellington), Mr G. Langveldt (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs A. L. Pratt (Gore). Among the new visitors to the City Hotel are Mr and Mrs G. Blizzard, Miss E. Smith, Miss M’Cormack (Picton), Mr and Mrs W. Burgess (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs R. M’Donald (Lawrence), Mr and Mrs F. Scott, Mr J. Cocheran, Mr J. Macalister (Invercargill).