Personal Items

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27680, 9 June 1955, Page 12

Personal Items

The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) will visit South Auckland at the week-end. Mr Holland will fly to Hamilton on Saturday and will ad* dress the annual meeting of the South Auckland division of the National Party. He will inspect the Kaingaroa forest development, the new town at Murupara, and the Tasman pulp and paper undertaking at Kawerau on Sunday, and will return to Wellington on Sunday night by train.—(P.A.). Sub-Inspector F. W. Edwards, of Police Headquarters, Wellington, who has been police prosecutor in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, recently has been transferred to Hamilton.—(P.A.)

Mr S. H. Wood, who left Christchurch four years ago after completing the bachelor of laws degree at Canterbury University College, has awarded the degree of master of letters by Cambridge University, for a thesis on the English juvenile courts. While a student at Emmanuel College he edited one of the university publications,' “Light Blue,” and made two visits to the Continent as special correspondent of “The Times.” Mr Wood is spending some months in Canada on his way home. He is the son of Mr and Mrs P. H. Wood, Roy ds street. The Rev. D. A. Blyth, of Maheno, Oamaru, was appointed minister of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Kaiapoi, at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery last evening. He w’ill be inducted on July 14. Mr Blyth succeeds the Rev. G. Densem.

Mr W. A. Whitlock, chief of the London office of the “Sydney Morning Herald,” has been appointed manager of the Amalgamated Television Services, Ltd., Sydney. Mr Whitlock, who was born in Hastings, entered journalism as a cadet reporter with the “New Zealand Herald,” and subsequently was on the staff of the “Taranaki Daily Nev Vs.” After service with the 2nd N.Z.E.F., he joined the literary staff of the “Sydney Morning Herald,” and was a war correspondent during the closing months of the Jap&nese war. Two years ago, he was appointed to the London office df the “Sydney Morning Herald.”—(P.S.S.) The Rev. F. Robertson, formerly a minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, has been inducted to.the parish of Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. He was recently minister of Mid Calder, Midlothian. He left Bluff parish to go to Scotland, and had also served in Puketau, Lincoln, and other parishes in the South Island.— (P.A.)