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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22376, 13 April 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr C A. Legg, stationmaster at Christchurch, has been advised of his transfer on promotion to Auckland as assistant-traffic manager. He will replace Mr W. A. Woodger. Mr Legg, who is well known in Canterbury and on the West Coast, will leave Christchurch on Monday, April 25. His successor here has not yet been announced.

Flight Lieutenant F. J. Denton was a paa. senger by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr W E. Leadley, president of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association, was a passenger for Wellington by Union Airways yesterday. Messrs A. E. Haynes (vice-president) and E. F Willcox (secretary) were last evening reappointed the representatives of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association on the executive of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund. Mr T. M-Charters was re-elected chairman of the Christchurch Fire Board at its annual meeting last night, and Mr E. H. Andrews deputychairman. The executive committee, of Messrs Charters, Andrews, and K. W. Robinson, was reappointed. Mr A. R. Thompson, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company’s branch in Christchurch, and Mr W. B. Cunningham, manager of the branch in Timaru, who have been in Wellington on an official visit k to the liner Empress of Britain, arrived in Christchurch from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr R. C. Kean, chief inspector of aircraft, will go to England for attachment to the Department of Civil Aviation at the Air Ministry, and will later spend a short time in the United States, according to an announcement by the Minister for Defence (the Hon. _F. Jones). Mr Kean will be relieved by a senior officer from the Air Ministry.—Press Association.

Mr J R. Lester will leave Christchurch today for the North Island to judge the elocution section of the Napier competitions, and later will leave for Bendigo (Victoria) to judge the elocution and dramatic sections of the competitions being held there. Mr Lester expects to be away about two months. A tribute to the work of Mr W. S. La Trobe, who retired last month from the position of superintendent of technical instruction attached to the Department of Education, was paid by Mr W. Crawford, principal of the Ashburton Technical High School at the board meeting last evening. He’ said Mr La Trobe had been a leader in educational affairs, and that the remarkable expansion of technical education in New Zealand was a monument to his sound judgment as a practical educationist. The board decided to send its best wishes for a happy retirement at Auckland to Mr La Trobe.