PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. N. S. Spence (Napier), president, and Messrs. W. R. Brown and G. W. Reid (Dunedin), E. D. Wilkinson (Auckland), C H. Wynyard (New Plymouth), R. Davis (Palmerston North), rand J. Nelson Stewart (Christchurch), (members of the executive of the New, Zealand Society of Accountants, are visiting Wellington. Mr. Alec. Kirkwood, formerly well known in gold-dredginf circles in the South Island, who has oeen connected with the Anglo-Oriental group of * ~ mines in Malaya for the past 14 years, _ acting as dredgemaster in Malaya and • Siam, has retired, and 'will shortly take up his residence in Sydney. In. the interim he will make a tour of the East and of New Zealand. While in. Wellington he will stay with his sis- . ters, Mrs. W. Paterson, Ngaio, and Mrs. A. Cochrane, Brooklyn. Mr. H. B. Duckworth (Christchurch) was elected president of the New Zealand- Manufacturers' Federation at yes- . terday afternoon's sitting of the annual conference of the federation. Eulogistic reference was made to the ■ services given by the retiring president, Mr: J. T. .Spears (Wellington). t Mr. D. Henry (Auckland) was elected -~~'; vice-president and Mr. J. Abel (Wei- '. lington) treasurer. " . "* Licensed by the Nelson-Marlborougli> t, Presbytery, the Rev. Keith Hadfield.. eldest son of Mr. C. A. Hadfield, of .' Renwick, left today for Ross, where he is to assist the Rev.-Lunan" Dewar fa . South Westland. The intention is that Mr. Hadfleld will soon take over from - Mr. Dewar, thus relieving him for. work further afield in the parish, to extend some 120 miles south of Waiho. Mr. J. B. Young, chief detective at Wellington, left, for Auckland last., night on annual leave. Durfng ~hi 3, absence his place will bei taken by . ' Detective-Sergeant W. Tricklebank.