PERSONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 267, 22 August 1945, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Colonel I. L. Bouifaut, D. 5.0., N.Z.E.F. (Middle East) has been promoted to the temporary rank of Brigadier, states the latest Gazette.

Plying Officer T. G. Lister, R.N.Z.A.F. (General Duties Branch) has been promoted to Flight Lieutenant, according to the latest Gazette.

The appointment of Dr. K. F. M. XJttley as, pathologist at the Timaru Hospital was announced at a meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital Board held at Timaru yesterday.

As a mark of respect to the late Mrs K. S. McEachen, members of the Hampstead Sub-branch of the Red Cross Society last evening stood in silence. Rear-Admiral V. A. Crutchley, V.C., D. R.N., has been promoted to the rank of vice-admiral and reappointed as flag officer of the Gibraltar and Mediterranean approaches. Vice-Ad-miral Crutchley served with the New Zealand squadron before the war. Vice-Admiral' Crutchley was at one time in command of H.M.S. Diomede on the New Zealand station. Lieutenant-Colonel .1. Ferris Fuller, 0.8. E., has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship in Dentistryj tenable at the University of Rochester, New York, U.S.A. ‘Colonel Fuller recently returned from the Middle East, where for the past five years he had been Director of Dental Services, 2nd N.Z.E. He is at present in Australia undergoing a post-graduate course in dentistry. He is the son of Mr J. H. Fuller, Kakariki. The death has occurred of a pioneer of the film industry, Mr Henry John Hayward. Born in England in 1567, he came to New Zealand in 1905, and was associated with West’s pictures. In I'9oß Mr Hayward realised that the cinema had come to stay. It grew amazingly and theatres arose all over Now Zealand. Mr Hayward first created Hayward’s Enterprises, and then amalgamated with Fullers’, under the title of Fuller-Hayward Theatres Corporation. —(P.A.) The Rev! Father R. O’Connell, who arrived from Sydney by ail* on Thursday, has taken up his new duties as Rector of St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Monastery, Wellington. He was born in Kniapoi, Canterbury, and studied or the priesthood at St. Clement’s College, N.S.W. He was in New Zealand, live years ago. but has since been in Australia. He succeeds the Rev. Father A. J.' Brennan, who has been appointed Rector of the new Redemptorist house in Christchurch. Mr V. Duff, of New Plymouth, has been selected by the N.Z. Employers’ Federation as the representative of employers 1o attend the International Labour Conference in Paris next October. The appointment has yet to he approved by the Government. Mr Duff is secretary of the Taranaki Employers’ Association and of the Chamber of Commerce. He was the employers’ representative on the second Arbitration Court.P.A.