PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL,

At Government House tnls morning the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament, attended by several members of the Legislature, presented to the Governor-Gsneral the Address in Reply to the Speeches delivered by his Excellency on the occasion of the opening of Parliament.

The Hon. Sir Francis Frazer will leave for the south by the steamer express tonight.

Colonel J. I. Chrystall, formerly of Christchurch, has been promoted to Brigadier and posted to the 6th Cavalry Brigade in Palestine. Now 53 years of age, he joined the 7th Hussars as a trooper in 1912 and was commissioned and posted to the 13th Hussars in 1914. After the Great War he was for a time engaged in police work in Egypt, and then returned to his old regiment with the rank of Major. For several years past he has been in charge of the British force in the Trans-Jordan.

Eulogistic references to the work of Mr. A. C. Blake were made at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board. He is retiring from that body after twelve years of membership. Mr. Blake, who for many.years was headmaster of the Lyall Bay School and who has devoted nearly 60 years of his life to education, reciprocated by paying tribute to the work of the members of the board. No board in New Zealand, he thought, was better served than Wellington by its chairman and secretary.