PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL,

The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloo were present at tho Rugby football match, New Zealand versus The Rest, at Athletic Park yesterday afternoon.

In. the evening his Fas (lie guest of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society at a lecture given by Professor Pcreival at the Accountants Chambers on! "Fresh-water Fish Research."

The appointment of Sir William D. Hunt to be a member of the Meat Producers' Board is gazetted.

Dr. Alexander Hodge, 8.A., 8.D., with his wife and four children, left London by the Rotoi-ua on August 2 to take up the position of pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, Auckland.'' Dr. Hodge, who is about 37 years of age, studied at Spurgeou College, London, •and at King's College, London. University, where he received the degrees of B.xV., 8.D., and Pli.p. His fipt charge was the . Baptist Church.'at Faversham, ■ Kent, and then the Befchesda Church in Sunderland, where he remained for seven yeaTS; At this church ho followed Dr. Scroggio. He left Simderland for Fillebrook Church, Leytonstone, where he succeeded the Hey. Joim Maeßeath in 1931. :

' Mr. B. M. Barrer, M.Sc, of Master,ton, who last year was awarded the :1851 science scholarship, . has been 'elected a 'Denman Baynes research, student of Clare College, Cambridge, where he is engaged in research and experimental work. Mr. Barrer is a graduate of Canterbury College, and a special distinction has been conferred upon him by this award, as ho is not yet a graduate. Some of his experimental work is in connection with heavy hydrogen. '•::■■■ . •

? Mr., David M. Tombs, M.Sc:., son. of Mr.' and- Mrs. Hariy' Tombs, Wellington, has been awarded a Bobert Blair iPellowship in Applied Science1 and Technology, tenable 'for a year, to enable him to carry out his studies in research with Professor Dr. Zcnnech,_at Munich, into short-wave T)i-opagatioii and reception, with-special reference to tho problems associated with the short and ultra. short;waves that are likely tb: be used for television. Mr; Tombs gained his M.Sc at London University, and for two years has been engaged in the research branch of Messrs. 'Siemens, Ltd., Woolwich. ,

Dr. H. F. MeNickle, of Mansfield, Nottingham, England, has been appointed; resident surgical officer of the Wellington Hospital.

, • At the monthly meeting, of the Wellington Hospital Board last evening references were . made to the recent deaths of two former members of the medical staff of the hospital, and, on. the ni6tion of the chairman (Mr. F. Castle) resolutions of condolence were;" passed, expressing sympathy with the relatives of the late Hon. Dr. W. E. Collins and Dr. W. M. Shand. Tributes to the work of Dr. Collins and Dr. Shand were peid by the chairman, Dr. E. Campbeil Begg, and Dr. D. Macdonald Wilson.

,;; Tho; Yen. Archdeacon J. D. Russell, Who was the first vicar of the Petone parish and. who is now vicar of Oamaru, paid a visit to his old parish, yesterday and opportunity was taken by his .old friends to meet him at a social gathering last evening. Over -100. wore present. Speeches were made by the Mayor of Petone (Mr. D. MeKeuzie), the: Rev. G. V. Gerard, and Messrs. Sherwin and Medhurst. Items wore rendered by Misses Brooks and {Wright and Mr. B. House. In his reply, the guest gave a brief history, of the'growth, of the parish and the building of St. Augustine's Church. He also made eulogistic reference to the late Mr. T.O. List, who Was formerly a member of St. Augustine's Church.

On his completion of 54 years of service as minister of the Auckland Hebrew congregation on December 15, the retirement will take place of Rabbi S. A. Goldstein. It is the intention of the.board of management to recommend the congregation to appoint him Rabbi Tenieritus. He will be succeeded by ths Rev. A. Astor, who has been-acting as his assistant for the past three years. .-...'