PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. 0. W. Bear left by the Eemuera to-day for England, on a business trip. Mr.'A. 0. Buchler, at present head master of the Terrace End School, Palmerston North, has been appointed head master of the Kaikorai School,. Dunedin to succeed Mr. W. C. Allnutt. who retires at the end of August. _ Mr. H. P. La-wry, barrister and solicitor, Eeefton, has been appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate, to fill the vacancy in the Magistracy caused by the resignation, through ill-health, of Mr. E. W. Burton. Mr. Lawry served his articles at Palmerston North and Christchurch, and latterly has been practising at Eeefton. Detective« Sergeant Cameron is to be transferred from Wanganui to Wellington to fill the vacancy in the Detective Office caused by the transfer of SeniorDetective Lewis.' Detective-Sergeant Cameron has been in Wanganui for over three years. He was transferred from Dunedin, and previous to that he was stationed at Wellington. He has been a member of the force for nineteen years, and sixteen years of that have been spent in the detective branch. The death is announced from Auckland of Sir Robert Nolan, upon whom the honour of knighthood was recently conferred. Sir Robert Nolan, who was a son of the late Mr. David Nolan, of the firm' of Hunter and Nola,n, Auckland, was in business for many years at Hawera, as senior member of the firm of Nolan and Tonks. During the war he acted as honorary secretary and officer-in-charge of the New Zealand Soldiers' Club in London, and in that capacity earned the warmest praise from thousands of our soldiers, who from time to time came in contact with him. ' The cheerful help which he rendered to members of our Expeditionary Force will always be remembered with gratitude. H e returned to New Zealand in 1920, and has since resided in Auckland. He. was a member of the Commission of Inquiry for the Welfare of the Blind. Sir' Robert Nolsn is survived by Lady Nolan, one son (Mr. V.-.H. Nolan,,of Cambridge), and om married and two single daughters.