PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 2, 2 July 1940, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. Hayward, M.L.C., will leave by the steamer express* for the south tonight after a one-day visit to Wellington. Dr. John Barron, M.8., F.R.C.S., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Barron, Hayelock North, has been appointee assistant to Sir Harold Gillies, the noted plastic surgeon, according to cabled advice received from London by Mr. and Mrs. Barron. .Mr. W. H. Gledhill, Wellington, director of the Pearl Assurance Company, Ltd., has relinquished this appointment to join the Wellington office of the General Assurance Corporation, Ltd., Perth (Scotland). Mr. H. Gladstone Hill, who is well known in musical circles throughout the Dominion, has been granted a temporary commission in the Air Force in. the rank of Flight Lieutenant and has bp»n appointed bandmaster of the , j is^^l N.Z; Air Force Band, and Direc . tor of Music to the R.N.Z.A.F. Flight Lieutenant Hill succeeds Flijht Lieutenant T. J. Kirk-Burnnand, who is now serving with the Expeditionary Force. Mr. Justice O'Regan and his associate, Mr. A. Magnussen, will travel by air to Blenheim tomorrow on Compensation Court business, and will return to Wellington later in the day. Commander Denhistoun, Peel Forest, arrived from Auckland this morning, and is staying at the Hotel Waterloo. He leaves for the South Island tonight. Captain C. N. Devery, D.C.M., New Zealand Temporary Staff, Central District Headquarters, Wellington,* has been appointed Assistant AdjutantGeneral, Central Military District, andpromoted to the rank of major. [ Colonel R. A. Row, D.5.0., Officer Commanding the Central Military District, has returned from a visit of in»; spection to the northern end of hi 3 district. He visited Napier, Gisborne, ' Waiouru, Wanganui, and Palmerston North. ' . Mr. H: G. Turner, office engineer' of the Wellington Harbour Board, who. has retired on superannuation, was made a presentation on behalf of the executive officers and staff recently by the general manager, Mr. A. G. Baiv nett. Mr. Turner* joined the staff in 1902, and was the first permanent draftsman to be employed in the draf* ing office. ,