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PERSONAL
Mr. A. G. Alanson, secretary to the
Federated State School Teachers'
Association of Australia, is expected to ar-
rive in Hobart on Friday on the R.M.S.
Orontes. The object of his visit is to
confer with executive officers in Hobart,
and discuss matters of interest to the
teaching profession. Mr. Alanson will
leavo Hobart on Saturday by the
Orontes for Melbourne.
Miss Maisie Brain, who is shortly to
be married to Mr. A. T. Cane, of "The
Mercury" literary staff, was presented
with a set of crystal glasses and jugs
on behalf of the staff at a function of
the accounts branch of the General Post
Office, Hobart, yesterday afternoon. The
Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs
(Mr. J. E. Monfries), who made
the presentation, referred to Miss
Brain's loyal and efficient service in the
department, and conveyed to her the
best wishes of himself and her follow
officers. Messrs. V. Hamilton (Accountant),
and A. E. D. Carson (Superintendent
of Telephones) spoke also.
Miss Brain responded, and afternoon tea
was afterwards served.
Mr. Geo. W. Lavender, a passenger
on the s.s. Esperance Bay, loading
fruit at Hobart, is editor and proprietor
of "Poultry," a weekly newspaper con-
ducted for the poultry industry of Aus-
tralia and published in Sydney. Mr.
Lavender, who many years ago, was an
advertising representative on "The Mer-
cury" for several years, is travelling to
England on holiday and to represent the
Australian poultry industry at the
World Poultry Congress, which is held
every three years, on this occasion at
Rome, in September next. Local in-
terests, representative of the poultry in-
dustry are being called upon during his
brief stay in Hobart.
Mr. H. J. Robertson, director of
Messrs. Hemingway and Robertson,
with his wife, will leave Melbourne on
the P. and O. liner Strathnaver this
month, on an extended visit to the
United Kingdom and the continent.
At the meeting of the Huon Municipal
Council yesterday, the Warden (Mr. G.
C. Frankcomb) referred to the death
since the last meeting of Messrs. M. J.
Fulton and Jabez Norris. Mr. Fulton,
he said, was a former councillor, and
Mr. Norris was one of the pioneers of
the district. He moved that letters of
condolence be sent to the relatives, and
the motion was agreed to.
Mrs. Lena Lynch, whose death oc-
curred at Hawksburn (V.) last week,
after a long illness, was (says the
"Argus") the widow of the late Mr.
Robert Lynch, of the original Lynch
Family Bellringers, and a daughter of
the late Mr. Alfred Hinck, of Sydenham
Gardens, Bendigo, who won great suc-
cess on the goldfields, and had the first
crushing battery on the New Chum line
of reef in the early 'fifties on ground
subsequently known as the 222 mine.
Mrs. Lynch became ill on the day that
she returned from her last visit to
Europe in December, 1930. She had
visited most countries of the world. She
leaves two sons and one daughter,
Messrs. Robert and George Lynch
and Miss Ruby Lynch, of the present
generation of the Lynch Family Bell
ringers, and two brothers, Messrs. Alfred
and D. Hinch. The private burial took
place at the family grave at St. Kilda
Cemetery.
Mr. Thomas Dunbabin, editor of the
"Daily Telegraph," Sydney, and a Tas-
manian Rhodes scholar, is, with Mrs.
Dunbabin, spending a holiday in South-
ern Tasmania.
Mr. F. Marriott, M.H.A., left Burnie
yesterday morning for Launceston,
where he will attend the Federal birth-
day festival of Toc H., of which he is
president. Mr. Marriott expects to be
away about a fortnight.
The Rev. Charles Matear, State
Moderator of the Presbyterian Church
of Tasmania, will be inducted this even-
ing in St. John's Church, Macquarie
Street, Hobart.
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