PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 122, 22 May 1920, Page 12

PERSONAL.

Mr. ;Percy Muster, F.LA., is gazetted Deputy-Government Insurance Commissioner.

Mr. A. L. Berry, district manager of the Public TrUßt Office, Dannevirke, has been transferred to Taihape.

Mr. Ernest Toms, of the Treasury, left by the Tofua to join the staff of the High Commissioner in London.

The Rev. R. S. Gray, secretary to the New Zealand Baptist Union, arrived by the express this afternoon.

Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner,. has been suffering from indisposition, but now expects to be at his office next week.

Mr. Clement Watson, after 20 years' occupancy of the position, has vacated the chairmanship of Victoria College Council, Wellington. His successor is Mr. P. I/evi.

Captain W. Attwell, N.Z.S.C., M.8., for the past seven years commander of No. XI. Group, Rangiora comes to Auckland to take charge of No. I Group.

Mr. T. 8. Ronaldson, Assistant-Public Trustee, has retired. He joined the office in 1883. ; Mr. Ronaldson is well known in athletic circles. — (Press Association.)

Mr. George Shand, of the inspectors' staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Wellington, having been appointed assistant-manager at Auckland, was presented by his comrades with a case of pipes and tobacco pouch, also a silver-mounted cut-glass decanter.

Mr. Joseph Silva, who died at Nelson this week, aged 88 years, was born in the Azores, followed the sea for a while, and 40 years ago entered the New Zealand railway service, from which he retired on superannuation. One married daughter resides in Auckland.

At present in Auckland arc Mr. R. T. Riley, of Winnipeg, a director of the Canadian National Railway System, and Mrs. Riley. Their tour is solely for pleasure. Mr. and Mrs. Riley came from Vancouver to Australia by the Canadian Importer, leaving the vessel in Sydney and making their own way across the Tasman Sea.. They are to rejoin her in Auckland. Mr. Riley describes her as "the ice-cutter" of the new Canadian-Aus-tralasian trade, of which he holds the highest hopes. He is seemingly well qualified to speak, as, apart from duties as director of this important railway board'—which, incidentally, performs the functions of a shipping board as well—« he has important banking and insurance interests.