PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 25673, 22 December 1945, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Anthony H. Thomson left to-day for Sherwood" Downs. The Presbyterian General Assembly Scholarship fpr 1946 has again been awarded to James T. Porter. (Incholme), a student attending John McGlashan College. '.■■■•■ The Council of .the University # of Otago has approved the following scholarships and prizes :■ —Auckland Travelling Scholarship in Obstetrics,, Dr M. B. Bruce; Batchelbr Memorial Medal, D. P. Short; Stanley Batchelor Memorial Prize, W. L. F. Uttley;, Marjorie McCallum Medal, Miss D. M. Shaw; Colquhoun Medal, Miss D. M. Shaw; Mickle Memorial Scholarship, Miss R. E. Adams. The appointment of Captain D. A. Bingley, 0.8. E., R.N., to the command of the'Auckland naval district as naval officer in charge and captain,superintendent, has been announced. The new appointment will take effect from January 7. Captain Bingley succeeds Commodore W. K. D. Dowding, D. 5.0., R.N., whose tour of duty in New Zealand has expired. Captain Bingley served in the Royal Navy in the first World War. Upon his retirement from the Navy he ca,me to New Zealand to live, and was farming in the Auckland district when the second World War broke out. He was then appointed captain in charge of the Devonport naval dockyard. At a special meeting of the. Bruce County Council yesterday, Mr E. G. Finlayson, of Lawrence, was appointed county engineer. Mr Finlayson is at present engineer for the Tuapeka County. He is a married man, 36 years of age, and is a returned servicen/an. A Navy casualty list records that the death is now" presumed of Leading-sea-man Raymond Arthur Downes, of Dunedin, previously reported missing. In the annual examinations of candidates for certificates under the Mining Act, a dredgemaster's Class B Certificate has been granted, to Mr G. M. Bradley, Cromwell. ' News has been received that the Rev. E. L.' Klimeck, 0.P.. Phf.D., M.A., chaplain of the R.N.Z.A.F., is returning to New Zealand on the Rangitata. The Rev. Dr KJimeck, formerly Vice-Rector of Holy Cross Seminary, Mosgiel, left New Zealand in 1936. After visiting many.. Catholic Missions in the Philippine Islands, China, and Japan, he joined the Dominican Order and worked in England until the. outbreak of war. Aa a chaplain, he served first with the Royal Air Force in England during tha years of the Battle'of Britain and the German bombing. Later he went to North Africa, Italy, and Greece. He was one of the first directors, of the R.A.F. Catholic Leadership Courses in England, and later was the organiser and: principal of the permanent Catholic Leadership School established in Rome for the R.A.F. Central Mediterranean Forces. ...