PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL.

His Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral presided at a meeting of the Executive Council this morning.

Mr. Justice Tyndall and the other two members of the Court of Arbitration, Mr. A. L. Monteith and Mr.. W. Cecil Prime, will leave for Christchurch tonight. The Registrar of the Court, Mr. H. F. Butland, travelled south last night., ■ '

Mr. A. E. Flower has been re-elected chairman of the Canterbury University College Council, and Mr. J. G. Polson deputy-chairman.

Mr. E. R. Thomas, engineer to the Gisborne Borough Council, who recently went into camp with the New Zealand Engineers, has resumed his civil occupation after being classed unfit for service overseas.

The Rev. W. Carmichael, of Fortrose, Southland, has been appointed to the charge of Knox Presbyterian Church, Hamilton East, in succession to the Rev. H. J. Lilburn, who is now at St. James's, Auckland. ,••

Mr. F. G. Farrell, president of the Automobile Association (Auckland), and Mr. A. Grayson, a member of the council, arrived by'the Limited express today to attend a meeting of the North. Island Motor Union executive. . .

Colonel James E. Barton, who has been for fourteen years organiser and for four years assistant secretary of. the Auckland Diocese, has been appointed diocesan secretary to fill the vacancy created by the consecration of Archdeacon Simkin as Bishop, states an Auckland Press Association message. Mr. William Noel Mackie has been appointed assistant diocesan secretary. :

The Minister of Housing (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) arrived from the south by the steamer express today.

The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, M.P., and the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr, R. M. Macfarlane, M.P.) arrived from the south by the steamer express today.