PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr. Macfarland has resigned the mastership of Ormond College, Mel bourne, a position which he held since its foundation in 1881.—(Cable).

Mr Arthur Paape, organising secretary of the New Zealand Sports Protection League, has, says a Press Association message from Wellington, been appointed organiser of the lieform League.

The death occurred yesterday (reports a P.A. wire from Wellington), of James Henry Pope, formerly chief

inspector of Native Schools, and wellknown throughout the Dominion.

Mr 11. Dingle arrived back in Stratford on Saturday-night from Wellington, where he had been representing the Stratford A. and P. Association at the Conference of A. and P. Associations.

A well-known and highly respected settler of the Forty Mile Bush District, in/the person of Robert Smith, passed away at his residence, Onslow Park, Hamua, yesterday morning at the age of 70 years. The deceased, who formerly resided at Napier and Dannevirke, came to Harnua 22 years ago, and till recently took a prominent part in local politics, being at one time chairman of the Pahiatua County Council, and also in all forms of sport, being a life member of the Bush and many Hawke’s Bay Societies. He leaves a widow and family of six sons.

Mr G. H. Mason, Registrar of Canterbury College, was at last week’s meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, granted three months’ leave of absence in order to visit America. Mr Mason, who is president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, has been appointed manager of the New Zealand representative team which, is to leave for California in September. In reply to a question asked by the acting-chairman of the board (Mr W. H. Montgomery), MiMason remarked that he had been in the hoard’s service for thirty-five years, and that it was over twentyfour years since he had had am extended holiday. The chairman expressed the hope that Mr Mason would have an enjoyable time.

Mr E. H. Hiley, the new general manager of the New Zealand Railways, practically ended his connection with the North-Eastern Railway at the end of. June. Mr Hiley was lately entertained by various sections of the service. The divisional goods staff held a picnic at a favourite Northumberland resort, when .the New Zealand official kept goal in the football match and took part in the cricket in the afternoon He has also rbeen entertained at dinner by the chief officials of the line. Mr and Mrs Hiley will leave for New Zealand in the first week of August, travelling through Canada, where Mr Hiley will spend some weeks studying certain aspects of the Canadian Pacific and the Great Northern, which will probably be Ijielpftd to , him in New Zealand. They are due in New Zealand about the end of September. Tlieir little daughter will go to the Dominion with Mr Hiley’s mother later in the year. Rev. George Jackson, the subject of the recent “heresy hunt” in connection with the Wesleyan Conference in London, entered the Wesleyan Methqdist ministry in 1887, and after a successful term as superintendent of the Edinburgh Mission he went to Toronto, in Canada, subsequently filling the* chair of professor of the English Bible at Toronto College. While there he gve expression to views differing from those of the more rigid exponents of the Bible. The attempt to discipline him failed. He returned to England in 1912, in which year he delivered the Fernley lecture at the opening of the Wesleyan Conference. It was in this lecture—“ The Preacher and the Modern Mind”—that he questioned the authorship of the Pentateuch and the trustworthiness of the account in Genesis of the beginning of the world. His contention on this point was that Genesis did not teach science, hut religion—that behind all natural phtmomena was the hand of God. The real reason for the action in the conference is said to have been the feeling that anyone associated with the training of young ministers should hold by the accepted doctrines of the Church.

It does seem rather an unfair handicap that a medical man should contract disease while engaged in attending the sick and suffering. Such, however, is not infrequently the penalty a doctor has to pay. The many friends IjH/d patients of Dr. T. L. Paget he extremely sorry to learn that he is the latest to he temporarily disabled from. illness contracted while following his profession. On Saturday Dr. Paget was very unwell and confined to his room, it being thought he had a severe touch of influenza. Symptoms unfortunately developed sufficiently to make it quite clear, however, that his illness is scarlet fever, and to-day, at a particularly busy time, Dr. Paget went into isolation. Anyone who has undergone a similar experience after reaching yearn of maturity, will extend whole-souled sympathy to an active man. Dr. Steven will, in the meantime, look after Dr. Paget’s practice, until a locum tenons arrives, as it will be some weeks before Dr. Paget can take up his work again.