PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. R. E; McGregor,-manager of tha Bank' of New South Wales at Gore, has received advice of his transfer to Waverley, Taranaki. Mr. C. C. Hall, manager at: Edendale, has bee*i . appointed to replace Mr. McGregor.

Mr. J. G. Barclay, 'M.P. for Marsden, arrived by the steamer express from the south; this mdrning.. ■

Mr. T. C. Brash arrived from Nelson this, morning. :..'.• ; '

Mr. R. A.Dickel, M.A:, headmaster of the Reef ton District High School, has been appointed an inspector of schools. Mr. Dickel was, educated- at the Musselburgh School and the-Otago Boys' High School and graduated M.A. at Otago University. Before taking up his appointment at Reefton, he was first assistant- at Marlbqrougli College.

The final lists of = the Tripos examination contain the name of. Willis I. Combs, of Victoria College, Wellington, and St. John's. College, who has taken, a first class of Part II in the Cambridge Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, states "The Post's" London correspondent. In his second year at the University, he was the only candidate to gain special distinction in this examination. Mr. K. J. P. Maclean, Hastings (Pembroke College), has been successful in Class 11, Division.lj of the English Tripos, .Part .11. . ' • • ■'■ " ■'■' :■ . •

Captaiii Gi, Archey, 0.8vE., has been promoted major (temporary) and appointed to the command of the Auck- - land Battalion, National Reserve, Class 11-. Major Archey is director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum -and served in the last war as an officer in.. 1 the New Zealand Field Artillery. , : ,

Mr. S. Ritchie, iConciliation Com■missioner, has returned to Christchurch after a visit to Wellington. ■

' The death occurred on July 7 - of; the Rev. Cyril &; v Harvey, Vicar of Wombourri, Wolverhampton, who. passed away in a nursing home, states "The Post's" London correspondent. The son of a Spaldin^ solicitor, Mr. Harvey was ordained" in 1905. In 1912 he came to New Zealand and during the last war he was a chaplain in -the New .Zealand Expeditionary Force. > After that he was at Pinner, Huddersfield, and Woodhall Spa. He leaves a widow and a daughter.. ...

Mr. Justice Johnston is engaged m Supreme Court business at Auckland, after presiding at the quarterly ses-' sion at Hamilton. , Archdeacon H. A. Hawkins arrived in Wellington from Auckland yesterday. ' " ■■ •'••;.■.-"•' .' ' . : The Rev. father C. J. Callaghan :.w«i among the passengers from the south by the steamer, express yesterday. Sir Charles Norwood, accompanied by Lady Norwood, has left on a visit to Australia. ■"..■.■'• 4_ ;, .^ Major R. Stuart-French, AX>.C. \o his Excellency the Governor-General, is on a visit to Australia. The well-known vocalist Mr>. Lance Fairfax, who served with the N^sw Zealand Expeditionary Force, m the fas? war an^ /attained, the rank of Maidr also winning the- M-C-, is reported by "The post's" London : corJespondSt to be in^gypt Org a n ?^ Dr S Welton-Hogg, secretary of the British Medical.. .Association in Wellington, has left'for Sydney.- : Mr A Osborne (WeUington), general manager of the Fru^rowej this morning. Mr. H. J. George,. Auckland, Commodore for the past. 25 years of the S^New Zealand Yacht W^ v,as received a commission as a Lieutenant R.N.V.B. in the Admiralty, states "The Post's" London correspondSfand is goirig into-^ctive service afloat-immediately.