PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ministerial. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, Prime Minister, will leave Wellington for Hawera on May 17, and on the following day he will be at Eltham for the jubilee celebrations to be held there, bn May 19 he will proceed to Stratford He will be in New Plymouth on May 21. and one of the functions he intends to attend in that town is the opening of the jubilee celebrations in connection with the New Plymouth Central School Old Boys’ Association. Mr. A. N. B. McAloon has been appointed a 2nd lieutenant of the Wellington Regiment. Archbishop Redwood, S.M., will leave Wellington for Sydney by the Wanganella to-morrow. His Grace will spend part of the winter in Brisbane. Lieutenant G, H. Heal, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has been appointed Adjutant, 2nd Company, N.Z. Field Engineers. The Rev. S. J. Cooper has been appointed by the Christchurch Diocesan Board of Education as a co-opted member. Messrs. Ernest Jenner, A.R.A.M., L R A.M:, and W. Russel-Wood are among the judges for the Christchurch Competitions Society’s festival. Mr. R. Laidlaw, senior, returned to Auckland by the Monterey after attending a Christian conference in Sydney organised by church leaders in that city. Mr. Harcourt S. Cathcart, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Labasa, Fiji, who has been visiting Christchurch, will leave for Sydney tomorrow. Mr. B. A. Guise and Mr. W. G. Talbot are to be proposed as life members of the Wellington Boxing Association at the annual meeting of the association on May 16. Mi'. C. J. Atkin, an official of the Treasury Department at present working with the Local Government Loans Board, is at present in Christchurch discussing loan conversion operations witli the Christchurch City Council and other local bodies. Mr Henrv Leslie, of Christchurch, who attended the first service held in St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Riccarton, was present on Sunday morning last at the church’s seventy-eighth anniversary service. When the first service was held Mr. Leslie, who is now over eighty years of age, was a small boy. Mr F. H. Perrin, manager for India for the New Zealand Insurance Company, Limited, arrived at Auckland on a two weeks’ holiday visit to New Zealand. After leaving the Dominion he will spend a period in Australia before returning to India. He is accompanied by Mrs. Perrin. Dr. William Irving, who was one of the six members of the board of governors elected by members of the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association. retired from the board . recently, and tlie nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy closed on Friday last, ITS -i Press Association message from Christchurch. Mr. Denys Hoare was the only nominee, and has been declared elected. Dr. J. S. Watt, a 1931 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, who recently returned from England, has taken up the position of lecturer in soil chemistry at Massey Agricultural College. For three vears he was a student at Oxford University, where he last year gained the degree of doctor of philosophy. In 19-9 he graduated B.Sc. at Auckland University. College, and the following year M.Sc. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Watt, of Remuera, and is an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School. Mr. Fred M. Kennedy, son of Mr. M. J Kennedy, general manager and secretary of the "Wellington Gas Company, has been appointed general manager and engineer of the Gisborne Gas Co. Mr Kennedy’s grandfather, the late Mr’. James Kennedy, until his death in ‘September last, was engineer and gas manager at Greymouth, and had the reputation of being the (‘father of the gas industry in New Zealand.” Mr Fred Kennedy has had a wide experience in Great Britain during the last live yenrs’in all branches of the manufacture and distribution of gas commoditv and generally in regard to all the activities of the undertaking. He is expected to lake up his duties in July next on his return from London. j