PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 8

PERSONAL

Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Snd. returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland. He will leave for Feilding today, visit Dannevnke tomorrow, and return to Wellington on Friday. Major J. R. Kirk. M.8.E., returned to Wellington yesterday from Auc land. Dr R M. Irwin arrived at Wellington yesterday from the south by the steamer express. Mr E J. Rishworth, of Cory-Wright and Salmon, Limited, has returned to Wellington from Auckland. The Hon. J. E. Duncan, M.L.C., arrived at Wellington yesterday bj steamer express from the south. Mr Walter Norwood, manager of Dominion Motors, Limited, wh° 1S leaving shortly for America was fare welled by members of the M ellingtou Rotary Club yesterday. Mr. R. C. Stewart, accountant at, the Wanganui branch of Levin and Comnanv, Limited, has joined the Aa\y and is undergoing his probationaij training at Auckland. Mr. T. P. Fotheringham. inspector for New Zealand of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, will leave Wellington today on a visit to North Island branches. Mr IV. R. Carey, Christchurch, nian■icer of the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, Limited, and president of the South Island Motor Union, returned to the south by last nights steamer express from Wellington. J|r. W. 1. J. Bly th. president of the Wellington Carriers' Association, bus been nominated by tlie association to contest a seat on the Wellington Harbour Board as the representative of payers of dues other than on ship. Wing-Commander S. AVallingford, New Zealand liaison officer at the Air Ministry in London, will return to New Zealand shortly for duty at Air Force headquarters. Succeeding him as liaison officer will be Squadron-Leader F. R Newell, who has worked with WingCommander Wallingford as assistant Hafsin officer for the past 18 months. Air D. R. A. Baker, a member of the staff of the ATngistrates’ Court. Palmerston North, has been transferred to Marton, where he will be act-ing-clerk of the Court. Mr. Baker has been stationed in Palmerston North since 1932, and was secretary of the Wellington-Manawa lu Adjustment Commission. Lieutenant W. Minchall, a member of the naval party that destroyed the mine found floating off the Coromandel coast last week, was educated in Christchurch, and was formerly a member of the engineering staff ot the Christchurch Tramway Board. He was employed as shift engineer in the Tramway Board’s power-house, and was in the Royal Naval Reserve at the outbreak of war. He joined the v nv v and has since been engaged iu degaussing ships, treating them to counteract magnetic mines.