PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

At last night’s meeting of the City Council Miss Marjorie E. Gibbs was appointed out of 62 applicants to the position of junior assistant at the Public Library. Mr j. L. G. Hewitt, S.M. and Warden for the Grey district, is to be transferred from Greymouth to Taihape. Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., who has been relieving at Invercargill, will take his place. Mr Geo. Cruickshank, S.M., who has been absent from Invercargill for about 18 months, will resume his duties there on the 31st inst. Mr H. I). Bedford, of this City, has received a communication from America inviting him to become a. member of the Academy of Political Science of New York. Mr Bedford has replied accepting the honor. From a large number of applicants, Mr George Esther, town clerk at Whangarei,' has been appointed secretary of tho Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Belief Association. Mr Esther (says the Auckland ‘Herald’) took up his duties at Whangarei only recently, and formerly was secretary of the Dunedin Drainage Board. The date upon wliich Mr Esther will take up his new duties has not yet been arranged, but the Patriotic Association hope that the Whangarei Borough Council will release him at the earliest possible moment.