PERSONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 70, 4 January 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Prime Minister (the Hen. M. J. Savage), the Minister for Public Works (the Hon. It. Semple), and the Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. It. Mason) will leave Auckland for Wellington by train to-morrow night. The Minister for Education (the Hon. P. Fraser), who is at present in Rotoraa, will probably accompany them. The Directcr-General of the (Post and Telegraph Department announces that Mr J. Madden, chief postmaster at Dunedin, has been appointed chief postmaster at Wellington, in place of Mr J. M. McLean, who has retired on superannuation. Nurses A. M. Fenton, E. M. Lingard and W. E. Nixon, of the Malvern Maternity Home, Ashburton, passed the State examinations in midwifery held on December 4. Mr C. Bishop, of Ashburton, who represented the South Canterbury Union at the New Zealand Methodist Young Men’s Bible Class Movement Conference in Wellington, returned to Ashburton this morning. Mr K. Lill (Greenstreet) and Mr H. Hayman (Willowby), who accompanied Mr Bishop, returned yesterday. Having taken over a business in Timaru, Mr J. W. Wcod, enginoer-in-charge at the Ashburton Public Hospital for the last 11 years, will leave at the end of the month. He will be missed in Ashburton musical circles, having been a member of the Choral and Repertory Societies’ orchestras and a vice-president of the Ashburton Musical Club.