PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 15

PERSONAL

Dr D. G. M'Millan, M.P., returned from Wellington by the express this afternoon. Mr William Taylor left for Camara this morning. Mr W. Easton and Mr C. Stanley Smith returned from Wellington yesterday afternoon. Mr W. A, Plavell returned to Dunedin yesterday after a business visit to Wellington. Mr J, W. Munro, M.P., arrived from. Wellington yesterday afternoon. Superintendent S. Rawle returned yesterday from a three-days’ tour of inspection of the police stations in the Central Otago district. Mr W. W. Bridgman, of Dunedin, holder of a Carnegie Fellowship at the Institute of Education, London, has qualified for the teacher’s diploma of the University of London. Lieutenant-colonel Grattan and Mrs Grattan, of the Salvation Army, from London, arrived this afternoon frem the north and' are staying at Redroofs, Roslyn. Lieutenant-colonel Grattan, who was rcccntlj appointed chief secretary to the Army in New Zealand, will be accorded a welcome at the 'services of the Salvation Army to-morrow. Colonel Hands Newton, of Christchurch, who was officer commanding the Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in Palestine during tbe war, will he spending the week-end in Dunedin. The high esteem in which Dr W. Benham, who is retiring from the chair of biology at the Otago University, is held. by the large number of past and present advanced students and assistants was expressed in a dinner given in his honour on Wednesday evening at the Excelsior Hotel. Eulogistic references were made to his academic and personal qualities bv the chairman (Dr Carraa’t Jones) and Dr W. Newlands, who presented Dr Benham with a gold watch and chain. Among. the representative assemblage presentiwere Misses M. Fyfe, M. Yardley, P. Harrison, Brewin, J. Hunter, O. Hills, Drs J. Hollaway, W. E. Adams, and S. Moore, Messrs S. Hudson. A. Blanc, D. Malcolm, T. Miles, F. Rush-Mnnro, N. C. Begg, J. Woods, and Ross Elder. Apologies were' received from Dr David Miller (Nelson), Professor J. A. Bartrum (Auckland), Dr Russell Ritchie, Miss F. J. Jeffreys (Nelson), Miss Winifred Farnie (Oamaru). Miss Alice Rogers (Wanganui), Mr H. _ Black. Mr T. D. Pearce (Invercargill), Mr Maurice Bleakly (Christchurch), Dr J. A. Cottrell. :