PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. N. O. Kensington^ appointment as Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Lands is gazetted.

Mr. Russell Edward Pope was to-day admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Sout), on the motion of Mr. W. Perry.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received cable advjce from London that Mr. Alfred Shepherd succeeds the late Mr. Warrington Lainjr aa chairman of directors.

Mr. 15-. W. C. M'lntosh. of Auckland, is to be transferred to Wellington as Keceiver of Land Revenue and secretary to the Wellington Land Board, vice Mr. H. M. Bannister, who retired recently on superannuation.

Mr. E. S. Craven, 8.A., has been nominated by the Canterbury College Students' Association as a candidate for the Rhodeß Scholarship for 1924. The nomination has to be approved by the College Board of Governors. Mr. Craven was educated at the Tiniaru Main School, and later at the Timaru Boys' High School, where he gained a, Senior National Scholarship. He then entered the teaching profession, and gained his D and B certificates. He graduated in 1922. Mr. Craven has had a notable athletic career. In football he has represented South Canterbury, Canterbury College, and the New Zealand University team in 1920 and 1921, and was selected for the team this year. In boxing he has represented the college for several years in the heavyweight class, winning the final of this class at the tournament in iJunedfn. He has also done good work on numerous sports bodies at school and at college.