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Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 11

PERSONAL

The Hon. F. Waite, M.L.C., left by the second express this morning en route to Wellington. Mr J. W. Smeaton entrained this morning for Wellington. Miss Checha Eipe, who has been studying at the Home Science Extension Department of the Otago [Jniversity, left by the 11.35 a.m. train today on the first stage of her return to India.

Mr C. Stanley Smith returned to Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon.

Mr W. Easton returned to Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon. The Commissioner of Police (Mr D. J. Cummings) arrived in Dunedin from the north by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr Geoff Parker, of the Tiraam branch of Messrs John Edmond Ltd., has been transferred to the firm’s head office in Dunedin. Before leaving ha was presented with a travelling rug. Mr and Mrs H. D. Skinner and their soil returned to Dunedin last night after a 10 months’ tour of Great Britain and the Continent. They travelled to Australia from Italy on the Ormonde. Mr G. L. Calvert and Mr E. J. Anderson left for Wellington this morning to attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal. At a meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery the Rev. W. H. Howes, 8.A., of Otautau, was unanimously nominated as Moderator for the General Assembly for 1937.—Press Association. Mr P. R. Angus, locomotive superintendent, Mr J. G. Bertinshaw, assistant chief engineer, and Mr J. Binsted, locomotive engineer, who haye been attending the railway inquiry into the derailment at Evansdale last week, left for Wellington by the first express to-day. Mr Douglas Lilburn, of Christchurch, has won the Percy Grainger competition for a typical New Zealand musical composition. Mr Lilburn, who is 20 years of age, is a_ student at Canterbury College, studying for the degree of Bachelor of Music. The winning composition is a tone poem for an orchestra, entitled ‘ Forest.’ The competition was conducted by the Now Zealand Broadcasting Board, at the suggestion of Mr Grainger, who gave the first prize of £25, the board providing the second and third prizes of £lO and £5. The other prize-winners are not yet known. Appreciative reference to the influence in sport of the late Mr Donald Stuart is contained in the annual report of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association (Otago Centre), in which the following paragraph appears:—“Sport in Otago suffered an almost irreparable loss during the year in the death of our beloved friend, Mr Donald Stuart, whose genial presence will be sadly missed. Sir Stuart had long been a staunch supporter of the centre, and in his younger days was one of the finest water polo players this province has ever produced, as well as being an excellent swimmer. Mr Stuart was one of Nature’s gentlemen, a sportsman in the true meaning of the word, and one of whom it may be said that his greatest pleasure was derived in rendering service to others.” Dr J. Calrney, of Lower Hutt, who has been appointed to the position of assistant medical superintendent at the Wellington Hospital, is 37 years of age. He has had 12 years’ surgical experience, and has the degrees of M. 8., Ch.B., and M.D. For three years ho was in Dunedin teaching operative surgery at Otago University, and was then appointed to the position of medical superintendent at the Hawera Public Hospital, which post he held for eight years and a-half. For the past six months he has been in private practice at Lower Hutt. Prior to his graduation he interrupted his studies in October, 1919, to take up’the position of junior demonstrator in anatomy at the Dunedin Medical School. In August, 1921, he again joined the staff of the department of anatomy until June, 1927, having successively held the status of senior demonstrator, lecturer, and _ associate professor. His period of service on the staff of the Medical School includes one year, from August, 1925, spent in medical study and research in the United States, as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. For the past five years he has been an external examiner in anatomy for the medical and dental degree examinations of the University of New Zealand. The guests at the Grand Hotel to-day are;—Rev. A. J. and Mrs Wethered (England), Mr A. A. Seibert (Sydney), Dr J. W. Bridgman, Mr E. A. Lehman, and Mr K. R. Port (Wellington), Mr H. A. Tuck (Auckland), Mr W. Herrick and Mr Ewing Shennan (Christchurch), Mr J. M. C. M'Leod (Timaru), Mr J. H. Soffe (Waimate), and Mr A. L. Power (Christchurch).