PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1929, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. F. W. Hart, tho clerk.of the Wei lington Magistrate's Court, h;ts re . sumed duty after his annual leave.

Chief Guido A. Brustad, of "Tho Hermitage," will leavo New Zealand shortly to join the Byrd Antarctic "Expedition, states tho "Tiinaru Herald."

Mr. .T. B. Gusscott, general manager of J. R. M'Kenzie, Ltd., who is leaving for a six months' trip to England and the Continent, was yesterday presented with a sot of leather travelling bags by the members of the head offico and branch staffs. Mr. J. R. M'Kenzio came up from Christchurch to mako tho presentation. a

Mr., Martin Houry Janseu,,who had a seizure on. the Kangiora racocourse on Monday, died to-day without regaining consciousness, states a Press Association message from Christchurch. .Mr. Janson was married and resided at Pc-

At a meeting of tho Board of the Portobollo Marino Fisheries Investigatioa Station it was decided to appoint Mr. David H. Graham to tho position of biologist, telegraphs "Tho Post's" Duuodin correspondent. Mr. Graham has for throe years been conducting mosquito research in Auckland with excellent results, and his work is practically completed. Ho will commence his .duties here on Ist January.

Mr. D. E. S. Mason, -who for the last three years has occupied tho position/ of assistant-engineer to the Otago Harbour Board, has been appointed engineer to the Bluff Harbour Board, in succession to Mr. R. A. Adams, who has resigned. Mr. Mason was educated at Dunedin at the Otago Boys' High School, and after leaving school was employed for two years with the engineering firm of Sparrows, Ltd., and for one year with Anderson, Ltd., of Lyttolton.' He served in tho war for three years, and on returning to New Zealand to6k employment with the New Plymouth firm of Blair, Mason, Lee, and Owen. 'He joined the engineering staff of the Otago Harbour Board eight years ago, and since 1926 has occupied the position of assistant-engineer. Mr. Mason will take up his now duties at the beginning of December.