PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General, accompanied by her Excellency Lady Galway, will open the New Zealand . . Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition this evening. ! The Minister of Finance (the Hon.' JW. Nash) will arrive back in Welling- ! ton tomorrow, and will leave for the south on Monday. The Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) arrived in WellingtQp. yesterday afternoon. He-intends t» spend next week in the Palmerston and Hawke's Bay districts, and will go south on his return from that tour. The Rev. V. C. Venimore has been appointed to succeed the Rev. C; W. Solomon as vicar of Gonville, Wanganui. He was ordained in the.Wellingr ton diocese in 1933 for the curacy of St. Mark's and for the past two years has been gaining further experience in England as curate of St. Paul's,, Thornton Heath, Croydon. Mr. Vem> more is expected to be back in New Zealand in February. < '.■,:./■■ Mr. A. W. Duncan, director of J..,.Rv . McKenzie Ltd., has been appointed general manager of the company, following on Mr. Gusscott's retirement;' Captain R. D. Oliver, D.S.C., R.N., ': who has relinquished his'position as ; second naval member, of the New ZeaV land Naval Board, and Mrs. Oliver left r Wellington by the Wanganella last night on their return to England. Cap* tain Oliver's position here has be'eii taken over by Commander A. B. Fanshawe, who arrived at Wellington from,; London by the Remuera yesterday. ■ Mr. Andrew Fletcher left Wellington by the Wanganella last night for >: holiday visit to Australia. ' "1; The Rev. Dr. R. C. Gillie, ex-presf-dent of the National Council of this V Evangelical Free Churches; and exModerator of the Presbyterian. Churchi of England, who has undertaken, to supply the pulpit of the Rev. Dr: W. Bower Black, St. David's Church, ■■• Auckland,. for eight months, expects to arrive in Wellington on January 26 by the Tamaroai He will ".. be .accompanied by his wife, who was a Magisr trate in Bath for some years during Dr. Gillie's ten- years' service vther? after eighteen years in the-Marylebone Presbyterian Church, London. They will spend a week in Wellington before proceeding to Auckland,