PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 144, 20 June 1928, Page 15

PERSONAL MATTERS

.Major-General Young returned 'to Wellington .from the fjcuth this morning. -. ' . „.. Sub-Inspector F. Lewin, iv charge of the Nelson police district, has been promoted to the rank of inspector as from lSt July. | : ... ' V ' An Australian Press AssociationUnited Service message says that Cambridge University degrees have been conferred on New Zealanders as follows:—Bachelor of Law; Kenneth Bloomfield; Bachelor of Arts/Kenneth Myers, Donald M'Gavin. '.;' ' Mr. J.'Stonehouse was elected by the Education Board at its meeting this morning as the board's representative "on the Hutt Valley High' School Board. Mr. R. M' Callum was re-elected as the board's representative on ' the' [Marl-r borough College Board. '.;., [ '" ' : - Mr. P. R. M. Harina, for[some years j ;a ssis tarit manager- of the .National. Bank -j of New. Zealand at Auckland,' has been I appointed manager at Dunedin. __v.I. S. Cantroll, who has been temporarily in charge .at Duriedin since the deathof Mr. H. S. Hammond, has been appointed assistant manager at Auckland. The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon.; O. J; Hawken) arrived from Taranaki last evening and left for Palmerston North this morning' by • the' New-Ply-mouth express. ; He returns to, Welling-ton'to-night, y- ■ , y.Y., Colonel W. L. M. -.- Sinclair-BurgesS; C.8., C.M.G., D.5.04 Chief [of the Gen-, e'ral Sj;a_ of the New Zealand Defence' Forces, left for England by. the Tamaroa on 9th Juno to attend ;diyisional manoeuvres and other exercises of the Britisn. Army. Colonel Sinclair-Bur-gess will visit the chief, training estabr lishments, military schools, and depots in England, • and will study, post-war developments in mechanisation, train*ing,'.and equipment. He will return to New Zealand in about six months. Mr. T. Lisle, of Wellington, has been offered and has accepted a responsible position with the. United Political Party. Until 1923 for a number or years in co-operation with the late Mr. Massey, Mr. Lisle conducted the organising work of the Reform Party. At the last General Election Mr. Lisle conducted the campaign in Inyercargill for Sir Joseph Ward. - , ... •;. A British official wireless, message states, that the King has approved of the appointment of Sir John Middleton to bo Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Newfoundland, in succession to Sir William Allardyce, who recently vacated that office. Sir John Middleton was Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1920, before the beginning of his term of office in Gambia last year. He has also served in Nigeria and Mauritius... ''..,'"' Mr. E. B. M'Killop, the recently.appointed assistant waterworks engineer, was welcomed by the chairman of the City Water Supply Board (Mr. G. A. Troup) to-day. He thanked Mr, Moriae for services previously rendered, and said that an arrangement had been made whereby Mr. M'Killop,. in view of the fact that many works commenced by Mr. Moriee were still under way," could apply to him for any information ho desired. ■ Mr. Claude Joavcll, 'the well-known Auckland'journalist, fell from the wharf while boarding the ferry steamer on hi 3 way to his home at Birkdale last evening, reports "The, Post's" Auckland correspondent. Though he was iv the, water only a little time, he was unconscious when brought to the wharf and ho was taken to the Hospital suffering from severe shock. His condition was reported.to-day to have improved and to bo satisfactory. , - .The death occurred last night of John Hoskin Carter, a well-known Wellington draper. The late Mr. Carter was born in Devon in 1861 and came out to New Zealand in his 20th year. He spent the first 22 years of his life in this country in Dunedin, and then lived severi years in Invercargill before arriving in Wellington in 1908, being connected with the, drapery business throughout that time. "While in Dunedin'the deceased'was a leading meriiber of the Masonic craft. ' He leaves a widow/Mrs. M. [Carter, Abel Smith street, two sons, Messrs JohnC, and W. Raymond, both of Wellington; and four married daughters, Mesdames H. Cowloy (Wellington), D. Donald (Waikato), H. Dowdy (Hamilton), and J. E. Ricketts (Hastings). .