PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is attached to the Hawke's Bay Regiment now in camp at Waiouru, has been granted leave of absence and will return to camp a second-lieutenant.

Mr. J. D. Pascoe returned to Wellington yesterday by the express from Auckland. . - ;

Dr. F. G. Sdper, of Dunedin, is at present visiting Wellington.

Mr. d. S. Nicoll, of Wellington, Dominion secretary for the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, is-at present visiting Dunedin. He will go to Invercargill in a few days.

Mr. G. W. Yallop, house manager of the Waikato Hospital, has been appointed group officer for the Waikato, East Coast, and King Country districts in connection with emergency hospital organisation. '

Detective W. J. Mason, of the Napier police district, has received advice of his transfer to Wellington and will leave Napier shortly. , Detective Mason has been stationed at Napier for almost four years, going there from Christchurch.

Bishop Simkin returned to Auckland on Thursday after visiting Napier and Wellington. The bishop preached in St. John's Cathedral Church, Napier, at special services to mark the tenth anniversary of the Hawke's Bay earthquake. He . later attended a conference of the New Zealand bishops and a meeting of the Board of Missions. :

Mr. Justice Smith will preside over the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court at Wanganui next wesk;

Mr. Justice Johnston, who has been presiding over the criminal session of the Supreme Court in Wellington, has left for-Napier. - - •