PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 227, 22 June 1936, Page 8

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Intrnal Affairs and Pensions, will leave Wellington on Wednesday for Auckland, where he will attend to a number of matters connected with the State departments under his control.

Mr. Justice Page and members of the Arbitration Court arrived at Wellington from the south on Saturday morning. Mr. E. A. Astley left Wellington for the north on Saturday. Mr. M. Myers left Wellington for the south on Saturday night. Mr. E. O. Hartridge has returned to Wellington from the South Island.

Dr. N. F. Hill was a passenger from Wellington for the south on Saturday night.

Mt. W. A. Parton has been re-elected chairman of the management committee of the Wellington Boys’ Institute. Dr. G. H. Gilbert, Temnka, arrived in Wellington on Saturday morning from the south.

Mr. A. C. Bretherton, who has been spending a holiday in the North Island, will leave Wellington to-night for Christchurch.

Mr. E. H. S. Hamilton, Christchurch, who has been visiting Nelson and Wellington, will leave for the south tonight.

Mr. W. N. Pharazyn has taken over the duties of secretary of the Wellington Clerical Workers’ Union from Mr. P. M. Butler. Mr. Pharazyn was previously organiser of the union;

Mr. B. Vinsen, New Zealand manager oi Columbia Pictures, left for Auckland on Saturday to meet Mr. Frederick Davies, general manager of National Studios, Sydney, who will arrive in Auckland to-day.

Mr. A. R. McElwain, who played a large part in the formation of the 33 Club, Wellington, was met at the end of the week (by a large number of club members who made him a presentation in honour of his recent marriage. Mr. A. H. W. Evendon, who was for some years in charge of the railway refreshment branch at Auckland, and recently stationmaster at Masterton, has been promoted to stationmaster in charge at Taumarunui in place of Mr. M. Curran. The stationmaster at Masterton will be Mr, J. D. C. Davis, who has been stationed at Mount Eden, Putaruru, Morrinsville and Taihape.

Dr. J. Melville has been appointed assistant chemist to Mr. E. W. Hullett at the Wheat Research Institute’s laboratory, England. Dr. Melville is a New Zealander who graduated in New Zealand in chemistry and then went to England on a post-graduate scholarship. His chemical work gained him in 1932 the scientific distinction of election to a Commonwealth fellowship, under which he proceeded to Yale University, in the United States, where he has been doing advanced research for the last three years.

Major E. M. Stace, E.D., who has been appointed to the command of the First Battalion, Wellington Regiment (vice Lieutenant-Col. J. L. Saunders, D. 5.0., V.D., who has been posted to the Reserve of Officers), is the youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Stace, Robinhood Bay, Marlborough, very early settlers, and a grandson of the late "Colonel W. C. Stace, who served in the Royal Engineers. He was educated at the Robinhood Bay School and at Nelson College, where he field the rank of sergeant in the Nelson College Cadets. He served a year in the Twelfth (Nelson-Marlborough) Regiment, and on transfer to the Waikato received a commission in the Sixteenth (Waikato) Regiment. Later he served in the Fifth (Wellington) Regiment, the Eleventh (Taranaki) Regiment, and then again with the Fifth (Wellington) Regiment, with whom he served the last 10 years. He received the efficiency decoration last year, and at present holds the rank of major.