PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 218, 10 June 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

At the request of Mr. W. H. Field, M.P. the Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D McLeod), will visit the Otaki electorate on Saturday, and go into a number of departmental matters.

The Mayor (Mr. C. J. B. Norwood) returned from the south yesterday morning.

Mr J. Mallard, general manager of the National Insurance Company, will retire on pension at the end of the present uonth. Mr. Mallard has been associated with insurance business for over fifty vears, having been twelve years with’the Victoria Company and thirty-eight years with the National Company, the last twelve years as general manager. Prior to becoming general manager at Dunedin, Mr. Mallard was manager in Wellington. He is regarded as one of the most able underwriters in New Zealand. Dr. Teichelmann has been asked to represent the Hokitika Savings Bank at a world’s conference at Philadelphia, United States, in October. Dr. Teichelmann will probably undertake the trip, and if he does, is likely, to represent other New Zealand Savings Banks. Dr. E. P. Neale, who has been selected by the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce for the post of secretarv rendered vacant by the death of Mr. H. C. Tewsley, will take up his duties about the middle of July. Dr. Neale, who is a native of Dunedin, and who studied at Otago University and Victoria College, holds the degrees of M.A., with honours in philosophy, LL.B., M. Com., with first-class honours in economics, and D.Sc. He is. a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was compiler in charge of Trade and Finance Statistics in the Government Statistician’s office in Wellington from 1920 to 1925, and was lecturer in economics at Victoria College and also secretarv of the tutorial classes of the Workers’ Educational Association. About the middle of last year be was reappointed to the Census and Statistics Office, where he has been tn charge of the branch for industrial and economic inquiries. He was one of the founders of the Wellington branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, of which he has also been secretary.

Mr. James Ames, the late city valuer, who recently retired after 59 years’ continual service with the Wellington City Corporation, will leave on a visit to Sydney to-morrow. He was discovered at work in his old office yesterday morning, evidently reluctant to part companv with the musty volumes which have been'his companions lor so long. Among his correspondence from Sydney this week was a letter from Mr. John Fuller, formerly a member of the Wellington City Council, congratulating Mr. Ames on his long term of useful service, and enclosing a leather-bound pass of admission to all the Fuller theatres in Australia or New Zealand, “the sort of thing,” wrote Mr. Fuller, “that we only present to people who have won our regard by useful public service.”

A Press Association message from Blenheim yesterday stated that a German lantern was used at Mr. Hurst Seager’s lecture on war memorials m battlefield cemeteries. When the matter was referred to the Internal Affairs Department, it was explained that at the last moment the Department was asked if the Blenheim Borough Council could be provided with a lantern. Inquiries were made in Wellington, and a certain firm agreed to loan the machine, which was consigned direct from them to Blenheim. The Department was not aware until after Mr. Seager’s return to Wellington that the lantern which had been supplied was not a British one. A Press Association message states that Archbishop Redwood and Bishop Liston, of New Zealand, have arrived at New York, en route to Chicago for the Eucharistic Congress beginning on June 20.

In General Orders for June, Lieutenant F J. Dillon, M.C. (Royal Artillery) attached to the Regiment of Roval New Zealand Artillery, is reported as being appointed officer in charge of harbour defences and officer commanding detachment. Regiment of Roval New Zealand Artillery, Cem tral Command, and Lieutenant I. R Withell, Regiment of Royal Artillery, to be artillery instructor, Dunedin. The award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ officers’ decoration has been made to Major J. L. Saunders, D. 5.0., Wellington Regiment, and to Captain C T. Cox, Wellington-West Coast Regiment.