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Otago Witness, Issue 4030, 9 June 1931, Page 47

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Mr Melville A. Clowes has been admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Kennedy. Dr R. S. J. Fitzgerald, of Oainaru, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of .Surgeons of' Australia and New Zealand. Mr David Pollok, F.C.I.S. (Eng.), F.R. C< 2*’i®’’ F.S.S., A.P.A. (New Zealand), of Sydney, who has been on an extended visit to Dunedin, left last week, en route to England. Advice has been received in Auckland that Commander H. L. Morgan has been made a C.M.G. in recognition of his services in command of H.M.S. Veronica a Pi, er during the earthquake. Mi Carl Moller, 8.D.5., who has just sompleted a year as demonstrator at the Dental School, left Dunedin on Saturday morning for Ashburton, where- he proposes to practise in future. Mr F. H. Lampen left Dunedin yesterday morning ror Nelson, where he will produce the comedy. “Tilly of Bloomsbury by lan Hay, for the Nelson Amateur Operatic Society. Mr Kenneth Emory, leader of the Bishop Museum Ethnological Expedition in Eastern Polynesia, ig at present on a v isit to Dunedin as the guest of Mr H. D. Skinner. Mr L. C. Tonkin left for the north last week, en route to England and the Continent, via Suez. The return xt ll ’ , be mad ? v,a New York so that the ix orth-west American apple districts may be revisited. Messrs W. Hazlett and Purdue (Invercargill) went through Dunedin on Sunday by motor car on their way to Ngapara where they will take part in the aog trials, -lhe two Invercargill enthusiasts brought seven dogs with them. Mr A. D. Paisley has resigned from his position in the Goldberg Advertising Agency, Ltd., to take over the affairs of Messrs J Inglis Wright, Ltd., an extension of the Dunedin firm, which will in future have its headquarters in Wellington. ° Mr J. Craig, who resigned from the position of inspector to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, left. Dunedin on Friday morning, en route to Sydney, where he will in future reside. He was accompanied by Mrs Craig. Sir John MacFarland, chancellor of the university of Melbourne, who is a wellknown visitor to the Dominion during tile angling season, was recently knocked down by an electric tramcar. His injuries were not of a serious nature, but he was comhospita? SPCn<J several days in a Private Mr Peter M’lntyre (Dunedin) has come to London to study art at University College (says our correspondent, writing on May 1), and he will probably be here for three years. Mr M'lntyre is wellknown for Ins cartoons in the Capping Magazine During Ins stay on this side intends to study figure painting. Cabled advice has been received intimating that Dr J. R. O’Regan has succeeded in passing hi s English FR C S examination. Dr O’Regan is a graduate ol the Otago University, and, before leaving for England some 18 months ago he was attached to the staff of the Wellington Hospital. He anticipates returning by the end of the year. Air AV. A. Sutherland, secretary of the Al<iin HigliWtiys Hoard, has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Automobile Club from several hundred applicants for the position. He was educated m Dunedin, securing the public account-snts/I^-5 nts / 1^-’ ee ' T For 16 years he was with the 1 üblic Works Department and was appointed secretary of the Highways Board in May, 1924. At the meeting of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union on Tuesday it was decided, on the motion of Mr A. Craig, to place on record its heartyappreciation of the work done for the union by Mr John Christie during his 25 years of continuous service, both as a member of the executive and as a past president. The president (Air J. D. Revie) ako eulogised the work of Mr Christie, and the motion was carried with acclamation.

Air Reginald James Richards, a son of the Bishop of Dunedin, has been appointed headmaster of Christ’s College. Air Richards is an old boy of Christ’s College, and had a distinguished school and university career. He served in the Great AVar as a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, and after the war was appointed to an assistant mastership at Clifton College, England, where he has been on the staff for the past 12 years. Air Richards will take up his duties at Christ’s College at the beginning of next year. The Alinister of Agriculture (Air A. J. Murdoch) announces receipt of advice that Air Thomas Lodge, C. 8., has been appointed as the United Kingdom representative on the Phosphate Commission in succession to the late Sir George Saltmarsh, who lost his life in a recent railway accident in England. Mr Lodge served on the Board of Trade from 1905 to 1918. and was secretary to the Alinistry of Shipping from 1919 to 1920, when he retired to take up private business. He is considered to be well qualified for the position. Officers of the Customs Department in Wellington on Tuesday presented Air G. R. Baudinet, who is retiring after 41 years’ service in the department, with a pair of binoculars. Air Baudinet joined the staff of the Customs Department at Oamaru in 1890. He was at Wellington from 1893 until 1894, when he took charge of the department at Port Chalmers. After being in the Long Room at. Auckland from 1909 until 1911, Air Baudinet was transferred to Dunedin as boarding inspector and in charge of the wharf staff? While at Dunedin he made many important captures of smuggled goods, which included opium and sealskins. Since 1924 Air Baudinet has been at Wellington on the staff of the Long Room.