Personal Items

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27668, 26 May 1955, Page 12

Personal Items

General Wilfred Kitching, head of the Salvation Army, will visit New Zealand in March next year, the seventy-third anniversary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand.—(P.A.) The Canadian High Commissioner (Mr E. H. Norman), who is at present m Japan spending part of his leave with his brother, will return to Wellington on June 22.—(P.A.) Colonel C. A. L. Treadwell will retire from the post of Judge AdvocateGeneral of the New Zealand Military Forces at the end of this week. Colonel Treadwell, who is a member of a well-known Wellington legal firm, served with the Ist and 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, and was co-author of the official history of the Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F. He also published his experiences in a book entitled “Recollections of an Amateur Soldier.”

Mr J. R. Sansom, who recently retired from the Justice Department after 40 years’ service, the last 16 of them as Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court in Christchurch, was the guest of the council of the Canterbury District Law Society at an informal gathering. The president, Mr T. A. Gresson, expressed good wishes on behalf of all members of the legal profession, referred to his long associa<tion with them, and presented him with a cheque for a substantial sum. Mr Sansom acknowledged the good wishes and the gift.

Mr L. P. Rossiter, railway port superintendent at Lyttelton, retired last week after 40 years’ service with the Railways Department. Mr Rossiter started work with the railways in 1915 as a rivet boy at Addington, and was a clerk at various South Island stations until he was appointed stationmaster at Hawarden in 1930. During the last war Mr Rossiter served with the Railway Operating Group in the Middle East. He was appointed railway port superintendent in March of last year. The Rev. I. D. L. Cooper will be installed as vicar of the parochial district of Malvern by the Archdeacon of Christchurch (the Ven. W. W. Averill), at Darfield on Saturday.

The Rev. F. R. H. Wright, vicar of Ross and South West land, will succeed Canon S. Parr as vicar of Rakaia. Mr Wright will be installed as vicar of Rakaia late in August,