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Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 15

PERSONAL

The mayor (the Rot. B. T. Co?) re* turned from Wellington yesterday; afternoon. Mr D. P. Kennedy has been elected president of the Otago University; Student’s Association. Dr F. J. Borrie, formerly of Christchurch, was inducted last night aa metropolitan commissioner for the Dunedin district of the Boy Scout movement. ■ The Otago members of the South Island team for the New Zealand amateur wrestling championships, which will be held at Wellington on Monday night, left by to-day’s express, Mr P. M. Anderson is the manager and Mr G. Small trainer, and the team comprises B. Small (bantam-weight),; L. Small (light-weight), and L. Goughian (light-heavy-weight and heavyweight). Mr G. Wilson, who has been transferred from Hillside to Addington aa a foreman, left by to-day’s express for Christchurch. The Rev. A. H. Scriven, the general secretary of the Foreign Missionary Department of the Methodist Church, is at present in Dunedin. Mr Scriven entered the ministry of the Methodist Church of New Zealand in 1912 and served as a missionary in Papua for a number of years, in 1932 he returned to the Dominion and was ap~ointed to the charge of Hastings. He remained there for only one year, for, at the n t annual conference of the church, ha was elected to succeed the Rev. W, A. Sinclair as organiser of the foreign missionary department. Mr Scriven, who has a reputation of being a good speaker and an effective pulpit and platform worker, will preach and lecture in the various Methodist churches of the city and suburbs during the next two weeks. He will preach at the Caversham Church at 11 a.m. tomorrow, and at the Central Mission at 6.30 p.m. Several leading officers, of the Boy Scout movement arrived in Dunedin yesterday to attend the opening of the Hobbies and Handicraft Exhibition in the Pioneer Hall last night. They included the Chief Dominion Commissioner (Dr Clennel Fenwick), the Deputy Dominion Commissioner (Colonel Creswell), the Dominion Commissioner for Rovers (Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall), and the Dominion secretary (Major Furby). This afternoon they will be welcomed by Wolf Cubs at the exhibition, and later they will inspect the Scout Hall at North Dunedin, which is now in the course of erection. In the evening the Dominion Chief Commissioner will meet officers at the metropolitan headquarters, and later he will address group committees and will visit the Ocean. Beach Troop’s hall. The visitors will attend church parade at All Saints’ Church to-morrow morning. An Association message from Wellington states that degrees conferred by the Executive Committe of the Senate of the University of New Zealand are as follow:—Master of Arts, Canterbury University College, George Spencer (with second-class honours); Bachelor of Science, Auckland University College, Ronald Barclay Waddell; Bachelor of Engineering (mechanical), Canterbury University College, Frank Edridge Newall Tuck,