PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 3

PERSONAL.

The Hon. E. Dye. M.L.C., will leave by the Limited express for Wellington to-night. The Hon. F. E. Lark. M.L.C.. returned to Auckland from Wellington this morning by the Limited express. The Rev. J. Adams, vicar of St. George's Church. Khigsland. has been appointed vicar of Taumarunui. Mr. C. H. Burnett. M.P.. arrived at Frankton Junction from Wellington by the Limited express this morning. The Rev. Harold R. Jecks has taken temporary charge of St. Barnabas. Mount Eden, following the resignation of Canon F. G. Harvie. Flight-Lieutenant William James Milne Xancarrow lias been appointed adjutant of the New Zealand Air Force base at Auckland, states a "Gazette" notice. Mr. L. L. Marshall, of the Auckland railway train running office, loft for Tauranga to-day to relieve Mr. M. Curran. stationmaster at Tauranga. during his annual holidays. Mr. Ross Hepburn, of ChrisU-hurch. ha<» been awarded the degree of doctor of laws by the Senate of the University of Xew Zealand for a thesis on "The Extraterritorial Powers of the Xew Zealand legislature." Flying-Officer F. L. Truman, of the Royal Xew Zealand Air Force, Wigram. has been appointed pilot instructor t<» the Middle Districts Aero Club. Pahn ston Xorth, and will up his duties, at Milson aerodrome this week. Flying-Officer F. R. Dix. of the Royal Xew Zealand Air Force, wbo » stationed at Wigram Aerodrome, lias been detailed for a special course of training in England with the Royal Air Force. He will leave by the Rotorua on Julv 24.

The Rev. J. E. Jones, vicar of Hunterville, and a former student of St. John's College. Auckland, has been accepted by tlie Church Missionary Society for work in Chapra. Bihar Province, India. He will leave in November to take up his new duties. Pastor A. O. Stewart, vice-president of the Australian Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, who has been on a brief visit to Auckland, will leave by the Matua to-night to visit mission stations in Tonga. Samoa and other South Pacific islands. Professor F. L. W. Wood, of Victoria University College, president of the League of Xations Union of Xew Zealand, has received an invitation from the * Secretariat of the League of Xations to be present at Geneva during the meeting of the League in September, as a- temporary collaborator on the Secretariat. Professor Wood will leave for Europe at the end of July. I The Rev. r>. X. MacDiarmid, 8.A.. M.8.E.. formerly minister of St. PaulV Presbyterian Church. Xapier. took over hie new duties in Auckland yesterday as director-designate of missions of the Presbyterian Church of Xew Zealand. He will make a study of the mission activities of the Church before he becomes director, in succession to the lltv. G. Bud<], at the beginning of 1939. Professor D. B. Copland, dean of the faculty of commerce in the University of Melbourne, has been invited to acoeja a visiting professorship of economics at the University of Minnesota, one of the leading State universities in the United States. The invitation is for the period from September, 1938, to March, 1033, and the council of Melbourne University has approved of its acceptance. Professor Copland was present at the Harvard tercentenary celebrations last year, and has been invited to visit Japan.