PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. A. J. Stall worthy (Minister of Health) left for the north last night.

Mr. 11. E. Holland. M.F., is visiting the West Coast on business relating to the earthquake. He will return to Wellington on Wednesday morning.

- Mr. H. P. Donald, Chief Postmaster at Christchurch, who has been visiting the main centres in New Zealand, in connection with departmental business, has returned home.

Mr. E. H. Farrar, New South Wales Minister of Labour and Industry, has sailed from Sydney by the Ulimaroa for Auckland to meet the Premier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, who is on his way to Auckland by the Makura, due there on August 12.

The Darwin Medal, given by the Royal Society, will be presented to Dr. Cockayne at a meeting of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute on Wednesday evening. Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, president of the New Zealand Institute, will make the presentation.

Mr. F. J. Colmer, chief clerk of the Canterbury district office of the Government Life Insurance Department, has been transferred on promotion to the head office in Wellington. Mr. N. G. Bennett, of Wellington, is taking over the duties of chief clerk at Christchurch.

A Press Association message from Auckland reports the death of Mr. Henry Bruce Morton, aged 83, a prominent Auckland resident and founder of the firm of H. B. Morton and Company, which for nearly sixty years carried on a general merchandise and shipping business in the city.

A grandson of Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate, is now secretary of the Dunlop organisation at its headquarters in London. He is Mr. C. B. L. Tennyson, C.M.G., who, until taking up his present appointment, was deputy director of the Federation of British Industries. Mr. Tennyson is the second son of the poet’s younger son and a cousin of the present Lord Tennyson.

The appointment is announced of Mr. A. von Keisenberg as Secretary to the Department of Health, in succession to Mr. E. A. S. Killick, who is now town clerk of Timaru. Mr. von Keisenberg, who was born in 1892, was educated at Masterton, and joined the Public Service in February, 1908, in the Hospitals Department, which was subsequently amalgamated with the Health Department. After serving as a cadet and clerk in these departments, Mr. von Keisenberg was appointed a compiler in the Census and Statistics Office, and six months later rejoined the Health Department as inspecting accountant. He resigned this position in September, 1925, in order to take up the post of secretary to the Hospital Boards’ Association, which position he now relinquishes to take over the appointment as Secretary of the Department of Health. Mr. von Keisenberg has been closely associated with hospital administration both as an officer of the Health Department and in his capacity as secretary to the Hospital Boards’ Association. In 1921 he was secretary to the Royal Commission on Hospitals set up by the Government. He was on active service in Samoa and France with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. He is a qualified accountant by examination.