PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb) arrived from the south by the steamer express this morning.

Mr. W. E. Brown, District Land Registrar and Assistant Commissioner of Stamp Duties at Nelson, has received notice of transfer to a similar position at New Plymouth.

The Rev. J. L. Gray, of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission in the Punjab, is due to leave Jagadhri on. furlough tomorrow and is expected in New Zealand before Christmas.

Mr. G. J. Burtinshaw, Chief Engineer of the Railway Department; Mr. P. R. Angus, Locomotive Superintendent; and Mr. A. L. Smith, Transportation Superintendent, returned to Wellington from Auckland today.

The Rev. Hemi Nikora has been appointed temporarily to fill the place of the Rev. Angus McKenzie, of the Presbyterian Maori Mission at Taumarunui. Mr. McKenzie recently accepted a call to Morrinsville. '

Mr. A. M. Macfarlane, assistant master at the Clyde Quay School, has been appointed by the Wellington Education Board to take charge of the Taita School till the end of the year. ' Mr. Macfarlane is a member of the Petone Borough Council and of the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Lighting Board.

Mr. Jacob Elliott, a member of the Railways Superannuation Board, will be a passenger for Auckland by the Limited express this evening.

Mr. J. W. McGlinchy has been appointed Government representative on the New Zealand Poultry Board, in place of Mr. H. W. Hawke, who has resigned.

Mr. H. M. Christie has resigned his position as a member of the Local Government Loans Board.

A vacancy in the mathematics department at Auckland University College has been filled by 'the appointment of Mr. H. K. Powell, M.A., Brisbane, as temporary lecturer. Advice of Mr. Powell's acceptance of the post has been received by the Registrar, Mr. L. O. Desborough. Mr. Powell, who is 21, visited England on a travellingscholarship last year. His studies at the University College, London, were cut short as a result of the war. Thei'e were ten applicants for the position to which Mr. Powell has been appointed. The vacancy was caused by the resignation of the senior lecturer in. mathematics, Dr. K. E. Bullen, who has gone to Melbourne University. • .

A personal tribute to Group Captain. Saunders, Chief of the Air Staff, was paid by Wing Commander E. G. Olsen, of Air Headquarters, during a speech at the London Scottish Old Comrades Association reunion last night. "It is a great honour for the Air Force in New Zealand as a whole that we have Group Captain Saunders as Chief of the Air Staff," he said. "If all of us could aim at his fighting record in the last war and his record as an officer of the Royal Air Force, since the war— if we could aim at that standard we, would be doing very well."

Captain S. Holm returned to Wellington from the South Island today.