PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1940, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. N. Greenland, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd.. who has been on a 'short visit to Sydney, has returned to Wellington. , J£L H, F. O'Leary, K.C., left today • for Gisbx»rne. Mr. E. R. Webb will retire in July this year from the office of bursar of 1 Christ's College—a position he has .held for the last 24 years. TJoe office of bursar is one of the oldest in Cjiristchurch, the first appointment having been made in 1855, seven years before the first 'town clerk of Christchurch was appointed. Until 1894 various members of the Board of Governors held the position of bursar, assisted from 1875 by a business "agent; but in 1894 the late Mr. W. Guise Brittan, .an old boy of the school who had been business agent, was appointed bursar, :_ and he held office untjl his death in ■ ■ 1916. - • ; Mr. A. Sparks, of Sydney, and Mrs. Sparks are visiting' Auckland. They i will also visit Rotorua and Wellington before returning to Australia in about three weeks. . , Mr. H. Scott-Ram, of the Asiatic . Petroleum Company, Limited, Kuala ■ "'" Lumpur, accompanied by Mrs. Scott- - Ram, has arrived in Auckland on holiday. They will remain in the Dominion about a. month. ' x y ~?" Mr. C. C. Wilson, accountant of the Chartered Bank -of .India, Australia, • '-; and China, who^is stationed-in Horig ~''. Kong, has arrived in Auckland .on holi-. day. He is accompanied by Mrs. Wilson. They propose spending about.five ' '"' ' weeks in the Dominion' before returning to Australia to complete their noli- ■ •' day. «. The Leader of the Opposition (thfr Hon. Adam Hamilton), the ' Hon. F. Waite,- M.L.C., arid the Hon. T. F. . O'Byrne, M.L.C., were among the pas- -/ sengers arriving from the, south thi» morning by the steamer express Mr. Louis Salek, J.P., of Wellington, • >, has been awarded the New Zealand * - Service Medal. ■ ■ ', The Rev. Father D. J. Minett, after studying in Rome for the past four . ' and a half years, has returned to New' *. Zealand and has taken up his duties on " the teaching- staff at Greenmeadows, . Hawke's Bay. . Flight-Lieutenant D. W. Morrish, " Royal Air Force, formerly of Whangarei, has been appointed a flight commander at an English Air Force station. The work involves the training of officers and men of the Fleet Air Arm. Sympathy with the relatives of the b late Mr. W. Greig, and appreciation of his services were expressed by Mr. G. London, chairman of the Hutt - ... Valley Electric Power Board, at yest'er- ' day afternoon's ' meeting. Mr. Greig ". had a long and active life of public .__>"■' service in the Upper reaches of the . \: Valley, said Mr. London, and the at- • - tendance at \his funeral on Wednes- _,/.- day was a tribute to the respect in ;- ': which he was held. • ; • Major R. F. H. P. Stuart-French,. ,;•,.'- ---11th Hussars, has arrived in Welling-, „ : ; ton to take up the appointment of ,_" -'" Military Secretary to his Excellency " - the Governor-General. ■. ; ~\ " Mr. W. E. Priestly,- • of Wellington,:, * '.- who has been on a visit to the East; . % r . has returned to Wellington. , ■ v ;-