PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The- Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C.,- goes South by the Wahine- this evening. Dr. F. E. Bolt has been appointed; honorary physician of the out-patient department of the Wellington HospitaL Mr. F. Waite, M.P. for Clutliu, leaves Wellington this evening for the South, Dr. E. Kidson, Director of Meteorological Services, leaves for Nelson tonight on holiday. Mr. R. A. Anderson, of Christchurchj goes South by the Wahine this'evening. Sir T ruby. King is leaving-Welling, ton to-day by the Marama for Sydney, While in Sydney he will stay with' his daughter, Miss M. Truby King. The Chairman of Committees of tha House of-Representatives" (Mr. W. A* Bodkin) is visiting Wellington. Dr. and Mrs. Faulkner- and Miss Faulkner, of Dunedin, will be passengers for the South this evening. Mr. L. G. de la Perrelle, sou of thai Minister of Internal Affairs, leaves . Wellington.by the Marama to-day for; Sydney, where he will spend a short holiday. . Lieutenant; Colonel B. C. Freyberg,V.C., D.5.0." (formerly of Wellington),; has been appointed Assistant Quarter-master-General, Southern :Oommand( England, as from June, 1931. At yesterday afternoon's break-up; ceremony in connection with the Wellington Technical. College,- Mr. WV H* Bennett suggested that a telegram' h&. sent to Mr. G. A. Troup, wishing speedy; return to health. It was the.first.time for many years, said Mr. Bennett, that Mr. Troup, who always took a keen; interest in the College, had been: abr sent from the breakirig-up ceremony. The suggestion, was enthusiastically; endorsed. Dr. J. 0. Mercer, house surgeon, Wellington Hospital, has been appointed assiatant-pathologist to the .hospital. During last year Dr. Mercer was , assistant to the professor of anatomy! at the Dunedin Medical School. . Ha leaves for England early in the new year, and has been grahted:nine months* leave of absence without pay.. A..condition of the appointment is that has shall spend the greater part of his study; in England in laboratory work.. Mr. G.. T. Wilson has been appoints ed Assistant District -Traffic - Man-, ager of Hallways •at Wellington in succession to , Mr. Js W. Beay, who has retired from tha' service. Mr. Wilson joined the-De-partment as a cadet at. Dunedin iaj 1899. He later became relieving officer in the Dunedin district, and in.3911 wa^j appointed stationmaster at.. Allanton^ After two years in the office of the District Traffic Manager at Dunedin, hej was promoted to the head office, Wellington, in 1917. In 1924 Mr.. Wilson' was appointed to a.,position in. the District Traffic Manager's office at. Wanganui, and in the same year. became* chief clerk of the commercial branch at Wellington. In 1927 he was. appoint-: ed senior ibusiness . agent of . the. railways, and since 1929 until his .present; • appointment he has been, engaged ou special duties at the head office.'.... Mr. E. S. Ross, a former labour jour« nalist in Wellington, has been -appoint": ed to the board of commissioners of thq Savings Bank of Victoria, succeeding: tho late Sir James M'Gay. Mr. Ross, who is a vice-president of the Victorian branch of the' Australian Labour, Party and a member of the Trades--Hall Council, to which he is a delegate from' the Clerks' Union, has taken' a leading part in labour movements in Broken Hill, Brisbane, and. New. Zealand, as ■well as in Victoria. He was editor of the "Barrier Truth", at Broken Hill for several years, and was editor of the"Maoriland Worker." At present he produces a publication dealing with social ani national subjects. With the chairma^, of the Trades :Hall Council. (Mr. D. Cameron) ho is also responsible for thai production of the "Socialist." He is a member and former secretary of the Socialist Party. In addition -to - hia other activities Mr; Ross is ono of the industrial representatives on the University Council and is a trustee of thai Public Library and' National' Gallery, He has been a'delegate to many Labou^ conferences.