PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

_ Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation C'ojnini»« sioner, will leave for Auckland to-night, Sir Cyril and Lady Ward are leaving for the South, this-evening. : Mr. Bernard Tripp, of Timaru, will lie a passenger for the South this evening. _ Tho Hon. Sir. E.Hoaton Rhodes ar* rived from the South this morning, and. is staying at the Midland Hotel. , Sir Alfred- Bankart, Auckland, Sir, James Gunson, and the Hon. J. B. Donald are staying at the Midland Hotel. • = • ■ The Eight Rev. ]?. M, Motynous, Bißhop of Melanesia, arrives from. Auckland on Thursday morning.•'•'"" He will be the guest of Mrs. K. E. Hayesj Karori, . Senior-Sergeant Ponder, who ha* been in charge of the Kilbirnie Polica Station for several years, and who ha* been transferred to Napier, was farewelled at a gathering of police officers ; and constables last evening . and was : made a presentation. . Senior-Sergeant Pender, who is a very .popular officer,! leaves for Napier to-morrow. Mr. T. B. Clark, deputy superiuteu* dent of the "Wellington Fire Brigade,has received advice of his election as an associate member of the Institution, of Pare Engineers of , Great Britain* Mr. Clark" lias been: a" member of ths Wellington Brigade, for. tyrenty-ontt years, during, which period he lias tel<l every position, including that of acting* superintendent. He is the first member of the brigade to have this distinction conferred upon him.

•Dr. Ernest Charles Lindsay, C.8.E.,F.8.C.5., the distinguished London': surgeon, whoy as Hhe cable ■ news ""ha* announced;' performed the'operation'for ; appendicitis on H.R.H. the; Duke ol Gloucester, is a New .Zealander by] birth. He was educated at the South*. land Boys' High School, Invercargill,-: where his father, t\e Sew George Lindsay, was minister pf St. Paul's , Church.; He; entered" OtagdUniversitv; with a Junior Sclioiafship,:ima.. on the expiry of his scholarship went Horn * j to complete his medical studies. A fe>t; i years ago he paid a visit to his parents^ who reside in Biccartbn.

On the occasion of his departurff from the Christehurch branch of the Bank.of New Zealand, to take up his duties as.an inspector, Mr. K. M. 01Hvier, assistant, manager; was ".the re. cipient of a presentation from thtf staff. The presentation, which took the form of a mahogany standard lami> and a gold pencil, was made by" tho manager, Mr. John Mac Gibbon. Mr, Olhvier, in returning thanks, said that of his.thirty years in the service of-tho bank twenty years had been spent in the Christehurch branch. Mr. P. 1,. Porter has been appointed to suceeel Mr. Ollivier.