PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL

The board of directors of the Wellington Y.M.C.A., which met last night, re-elected Mr R. H. Nimmo president for the eighth year in succession.

Sir Cyril and Lady .Ward returned from a visit to England by the Strathmore yesterday and left Wellington for Christchurch last night. The Hon A. Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, arrived at Wellington from the south at the weekend. He will return to Invercargill in about a week. Advice has been received of the appointment of the Rev A. J. Grigg, tutor in the New Zealand Baptist College, Auckland, to the. position of principal of the Victorian Baptist College, Melbourne.'

The Hon W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs and Pensions, left Wellington for the South Island last night. He will fulfil engagements in Christchurch today, and tomorrow he will proceed to Dunedin. Mr H. M. Reid, assistant engineer to the Dannevirke County Council, has been appointed engineer to the Waitaki County Council. Mr Reid has been assistant engineer in Dannevirke since 1936; before that he was with the Otamatea Courity Council, North Auckland. / .

For the past 12 years the affairs of the Society of Mary in Australia have been administered from New Zealand, but now, by a recent decree from the Holy See, Australian Marist Fathers are formed into a separate province With headquarters at St Patrick’s, Church Hill, Sydney. The Very Rev Father D. H. Hurley, the present provincial for New Zealand, has been appointed provincial for Australia, and the office which he relinquishes in NewZealand will be filled by the Very Rev Dr V. Geaney, St Mary’s, Christchurch. The new provincial is one of the best-known members of the order in New Zealand, and is particularly well-known in Christchurch, where’ for the last three years he has been parish priest at St Mary's Church, ManchesterStreet.

Cabled advice was received in Auckland from London yesterday of the death of Mr C. T. Major, formerly headmaster of King’s College and later principal of King’s Preparatory School. Mr Major’s name will ever be associated with that of King’s College. Sixtynine years of age, he had been in retirement for several' years and left New Zealand on a holiday visit to England last June. His death occurred after a short illness. Mr Major first became associated with King’s College as long ago as 1894, and except for several short breaks he remained closely in touch with it as a teacher and as headmaster until his retirement. He was born in Auckland, and received his university education at Auckland University College. He took his B.A. in 1891, and was senior scholar in mathematics. He became Master of Arts with first-class honours in the following year, and in 1893 he took his B.Sc. Mr Major is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.