PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 102, 27 October 1941, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

I VICEREGAL. Government House, Wellington, October 26. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Newall attended Divine Service at St. Luke's Church, Wadestown, this morning. Captain R. H. Bevan, R.N., has left Government House. Mr. D. C. Milne, B.Sc, D.R.T.C., M.lnst.C.E., who was formerly Harbour Engineer at Greymouth, has been appointed to an important position on the Staff of the Manchester Ship Canal Company. For the past 18 months Mr. Milne has been acting as agent for a London firm of civil engineering contractors. Until recently he was in charge of the construction of a large reservoir being built by his firm for the London Metropolitan Water Board. The death has occurred of the. Rev. Albert Lombardini, former Rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, the official church in London of New Zealanders. Mr. E. G. Melton, of the Dairy Division, Department of Agriculture, Palmerston' North, has taken up a position with the Produce Grading Division, Auckland. Mr. E. A. Edmiston, who has been accountant at the Ashburton branch of the Bank of New ; ; aland for many years, has been appointed to the position of manager at Cromwell. Mr. L. M. Morrison, of Hamilton, has been transferred to the staff of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture at Palmerston North. Mr. G. D. Griffiths, of Christctturch, has been re-elected president of the New Zealand Council of the Royal Life-saving Society. Mr. P. F. Coira, of Wellington, has been re-elected president of the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association. Mr. W. J. Morrell, Chancellor of the University of Otago, and Mr. L. D. Ritchie, Vice-Chancellor, have been reappointed as the University Council's delegates on the Senate of the ■< University of New Zealand for a fur- j ther term, of three years. . Lieutenant-Colonel D. Pottinger, formerly of Invercargill, has relin-1 quished his appointment of officer in Charge of the medical division, No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, and has been appointed to command the No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital, with the temporary rank of colonel. Mr. Justice Northcroft will return to Wellington tomorrow morning from' Waimai, in the Waikato. j Lieutenant-Colonel F. L. Hunt, N.Z.S.C, of Wellington, who went overseas as brigade major to the 4th Brigade, has returned for special service in New Zealand. He arrived in Wellington from Auckland today. Captain W. A. Smith, for many years a resident of Blenheim and formerly in command of several of the Bank Line vessels trading overseas, has joined the Royal Australian Navy as a lieutenant on H.M.A.S. Paterson. Before he joined the mercantile marine, Captain' Smith was a member of the postal staff of the Blenheim Post Office. ■