PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 81, 3 October 1944, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Detective F. Gordon, who is to take charge of.. the detective section at Peton'e, was farewelled at the Auckland police station yesterday. A presentation on behalf of the station staff was-made by Sub-Inspector S. G. Hall.

Mr. C. E. Leighton, of the Sydney office of Canadian Pacific Railways, arrived at Auckland by flying-boat on Saturday to take up-the position of manager at Wellington, in succession to Mr.'G. A. Glennie, who is' being transferred on promotion to London.

For a little over 25 years Mr." B. J. Jacobs was president of the • Palmerston North branch of the R.S.A. He resighed at the last annual meeting because of having been elected Dominion president of the R.S.A. At the annual reunion of the branch on Friday night, states "The Post's" Manawatu correspondent, opportunity was taken to acknowledge the services he had given not only to ex-soldiers of the last war, but also of the present conflict. He was presented with a writing bureau, bearing a silver plate suitably inscribed. Among those who paid tributes was the Hon. W. Perry, previous Dominion president.

To mark' the thirty-fifth anniversary of the consecration to the episcopate of his Grace Archbishop West-Watson, Primate and Archbishop of New- Zealand, an informal gathering was held recently by the principal officers of the Anglican: Diocese, of Christchurch. After qualifying as a scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University with first-class Classical Tripos in 1899 and first-class Theological Tripos in 1901, Dr. West-Watson was appointed m' 1907 as dean of the college. In 1909 he was called to be Bishop-Suffragan of Barrow-in-Furness.. as assistant to ,the Bishop of Carlisle. In 1926, having accepted the invitation of the Synod of the Diocese of Christchurch, he assumed pastoral change in Christchurch. In 1940 he succeeded Archbishop Averill as Primate and Archbishop by election. ••'.-,