PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

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

The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F Jones) will leave Wellington tonight for Christchurch, where ha will open the Union Jack Club tomorrow afternoon. The Minister will later go on to Dunedin, where he will arrive on Saturday afternoon. He intends to spend a few days at his home. Mr. W. H. Price was elected by the Wellington Harbour Board last evening to fill the vacancy as the board's representative on the Wellington Free Ambulance Service Committee caused. by the death of Mr. D. J. McGowan. Mr. G. M. Telfer, of Christchurch, was re-elected Dominion president of the New Zealand Highland Pipe Bands* Association at the annual meeting held in Christchurch recently. The Rev. Cyril Herbert Harvey, M.A., whose death occurred in England on, July 7, was temporarily in charge of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, early in 1914, and later in that year vicar of Wadestown and Northland. Mr. Harvey took his M.A. degree at Cambridge in. 1905 and then attended Wells Theological College. He was ordained by the Bishop of Norwich, and received appointment as curate at Lowestoft. In 1912 he came to New Zealand, taking up the appointment of curate at Christ Church, Wanganui. He remained there till he was invited to take charge of St. Paul's Pro-Cathe-dral, Wellington, early in 1914, during the absence in England of the vicar, the late Archdeacon Johnson. Late ia the same year he went, to the parish of Wadestown arid Northland as vicar, remaining there till he went overseas in 1917 as chaplain to the forces. After the war he settled in England, subse» quently becoming vicar of St. Paul's, Huddersfield. v .... I Messrs. G. W. Brown, ' M. J. Webster, and F. R. Wrigley, of Wellington,and Messrs. W. L. Cook and B. W, Potter, of Palmerston North, hava been admitted to membership of tha New Zealand Society of Accountants with .the status of A.R.A.N.Z. (associate registered accountant). Mr. S. L. Wright, . president of tha Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, has returned to Christchurch from tha North Island. Mr. D. V. Wilson, president of the New Zealand Footwear Manufacturers* Association, arrived in Wellington to? day from the south.