PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24399, 10 September 1940, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr T. C. Ross left for the north bfr the express yesterday morning. The Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes, of St. Andrew's Church, Auckland, and for some years minister ?f Chalmers Church, Timaru, nas received a unanimous call to St. John's Church, Wellington. Mr John Higgins, engineer to the Grey County Council, last -month completed 60 years' service with the council. This is considered to be a record "for New Zealand in local body administration. Dr lan Lauder, formerly of Christchurch, who is at present on the staff of Melbourne University, has been appointed to a senior lectureship in the physics department of. the, University of Brisbane. ' Mr Vincent Ward, M.L.C., has been appointed honorary secretary of the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council, in place of. Mr E. M. Bardsley, who resigned recently. Mr Ward was appointed last month to the National Patriotic Council. Captain J. Brooke White, M.S.C., 8.E., A.M.1.C.E., New Zealand Staff Corps, who left with the second echelon attached to the Railway Construction Company, has been appointed to Camberley Staff College. England Advice has been received that Lieutenant-Commander R. C. GordonSmith, D.S.C., who was seriously wounded in the first battle of Narvik, died from his injuries on July 17 He was navigating officer of H.M.S. Hardy. He was married in 1937 to Miss Anne Morris, a grand-daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Anderson; of "Inveresk," Armagh street, Christchurch. Dr Edgar F. Thomson who for' some time past has been in charge of the Pathological Department at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney is now a member of the Australian Imperial Force with the rank.of major, and is director of the pathology deoartment of thn medical branch of the force. Major Thomson, who is a son of Mr Fred and the late Mrs Thomson, of Christchurch, attended the Southland Boys' High School from 1916 to 1920, and graduated a 1 Otago University in 1926. Major C. W. Kimbell, R.A.M.C. who is well known in Christchurch, is a prisoner of war in Germany Advice to this effect has been received by his uncle. Mr H. G. Livingstone The message adds that Major Kimbell is in good health. He is a son of the late Mr A. H. Kimbell, former Under-sec-retarv of Mines. Major Kimbell went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, as a surgeon, and was left behind at the evacuation of Dunkirk. Major Kimbell obtained his degree at the Otago University, and for a time was on the staff of the Christchurch Public Hospital, leaving that position to take a post-graduate course in London, where he obtained the degrees of F.R.C.S. and M.C.O.G. Major Kimbell has a brother, Dr N. Kimbell. who is a medical officer in the Royal Air Force, with the rank of flightlieutenant BEWARE FICKLE SPRING! The promise of warm days often is betrayed by a cold snap bringing colds and chills to many. For nearly 75 springtimes Baxter's Lung Preserver has been the trusted friend of New Zealanders. young and old. Take "Baxters" immediately a cold threatens and take ."Baxters" regularly until it is gone, "Baxters" tonic properties accelerate recovery.—Advt.