PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Minister of Lands (the Hon. G. W Forbes) left yesterday for the East Coast. Ho ■ will return to Wellington on Thursday next.

The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. E. A. Ransom) is expected to return to Wellington from the East Coast early nest week. ,

The Minister of Customs (the Hoh, J. B. Donald) left last night for Auckland.

The Minister of Railways (the Hon. W. B. Taverner) left last night for the Coromandel district, and will.• return to Wellington Wednesday next.

Mr. J. A. Macpherson, M.P., has been appointed Government representative on the Oamaru Fire Board.

Lieutenant X Inwood, of the Nelson, Marlborough, and "West Coast Eegiment, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal. :

Lieut.-Colonel J. Stafford, D.5.0., M.E.C.ViS., New Zealand' Veterinary Corps, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

The appointment of Mr. Thomas Ross as Vice-Consul for Chile at Dunedin has been provisionally recognised.

Mr. G. L. Anderson, of the Staff Division, Head Office, N.Z.8., left yesterday for the Ohakune district on Departmental business.

Mr. H. J. Butler has .been appointed to act as Vice-Consul for Sweden at Christehurch during the temporary absence of the Viee-Consul.

A Press Association telegram advises that at the Presbyterian General Assembly the Theological Hall Committee's recommendation that the Eev. J. Collie, of Queenstown, tako the chair of New Testament Studies was unanimously adopted".

Constable W. F. Hammond, of the Mount Cook Police Station, who was married recently, was to-day presented with a handsome clock as a wedding present, the gift being made by SeniorSergeant Butler on behalf of the officers and men. at tho station.