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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 4

PERSONAL

Lieutenant (A) J. E. Herishelwood, (R.N.Z.N.V.R., will arrive in Dunedin to-morrow from Ceylon.

Mr Terence Moorhouse, engineer to the Tauranga County Council, has been appointed engineer-clerk to the Mackenzie County Council. Mr Moorhouse, who is a returned soldier of the 1914-18 war, will take up his duties after the New Year. Nine applications were received for the position. Among R.N.Z.A.F. personnel returning from Britain via Canada by the Cape Friendship, due at Auckland on Wednesday, is Flight-lieutenant D. S. MacDonald, of Dunedin. . An Auckland Association telegram states that the mayor, Mr J. A. C. Allum, left by air this morning for America to attend a conference at Washington on the Palestine question..

Mr (B. P. Mansfield, who lias been, ’ superintendent of reserves at Invercargill since 1933, has been appointed director of domains at Christchurch. Ho will succeed Mr J. A. MacPherson, a former superintendent of reserves at . Invercargill, who has been appointed. ■ director of gardens and parks at Auckland. Mr Mansfield, who is a graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, served overseas with the New Zealand Forestry Unit, and returned to New Zealand in February. . Mr E. A. Cameron, inspector of the Bank of Australasia in New Zealand, , and chairman of the Associated Banks, will retire at the end of the year. Mr . H. D. T. Williamson, manager of the Auckland branch of the bank, has been appointed to succeed Mr Cameron as inspector.

General George Carpenter, supreme leader of the Salvation Army,, will leave London next Friday by air for Australia and New Zealand, where he will conduct campaigns in the main cities. He is due to arrive at Auckland on January 3, 1946, arid will con- , duet a series of five-day meetings in Auckland, Christchurch. Dunedin, and Wellington in turn. Two priests of the Redemptorist Order, Father John Creagh and Father Thomas O’Connor, have just celebrated the golden jubilee of their ministry. Both are now attached to St. Gerard’s, Wellington, and have served two terms in New Zealand, during which they have conducted missions in all parts of the country. Both priests are' now ' aged 75, and have served in Ireland, the Philippines, Australia, and New, Zealand. Father O’Connor first came here 40 years ago. During the first World War he was a chaplain with the British forces in France for four years. Father Creagh is a former Vicar Apostolic for Western Australia. , ,

Staying at the Grand Hotel are: Mr and Mrs D. A. Pepperill (Warkworth), Miss J. Adams, Mr H. 0. Allchurch, Mr and Mrs Dark, Mr N. Wingham (Christchurch), Miss W. Anderson, Mrs W. Quinn (Timaru), Sirs H, Grater, Miss’A. Grater, Mr Rodney Grater (Oamaru), Miss M. P. McKenzie (Queenstown), Mr and Mrs, D. Mclntosh. Miss M. D. Wilson, and Miss P. Gray (Invercargill). Guests at Wains Hotel are: Mr W. J. Foote, Miss G. P. Brown, Miss V. R. Henley. Mr and Mrs S. W. Hooper, Mr F. A. Jensen, Miss J. Johnston (Auckland) , Lieutenant L. Collins ' (Makotuku), Mr G. Patterson, Mr and Mrs G. H. Denver (Wellington), Mr L. R. Johnston. Mr F. J. Latham, Mr and Mrs F. W. Hill, Mr M. L. F. Clark (Christchurch), Miss L. R. Bishop, Mr L. G. Stevens (Timaru), Mr and Mrs G. F. Clarke (Mataktmui), and Mr L. Jones (Invercargill). Registered at the City Hotel are: ■Mr C. V, White (England), Captain W. Arnold (India), Captain and Mrs H. Macdonald (Auckland), Mr R. .L. Bishell (Wellington), Mr D. Roberts (Nelson), Mr and Mrs R. L. Reid, Mr and Mrs A. Geddes. Mr F. M. - Parkinson, Mrs V. Reid. Mrs A. E. Dickson, Mrs F. McKay (Christchurch), Mr C. E. Hassall, Mr V. Bladom, Mr R. Gordon (Timaru) , Mr D. C. . Aubrey (Wanaka), Mr W. R. Curwen, Miss M. Frazer, Miss L. Mathieson, Miss F. Mathieson, Miss J. Waterson, and Miss N. Vial (Invercargill). .