PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

An engagement is announced between Rex, second eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gordon, Gisborne, and Phyllis-Jean, eldest daughter of Constable and Mrs. N. H. Tuck, Tikitiki. The Rev. J. W. McKenzie, Epsom, senior Presbyterian chaplain with the forces, has been promoted to be chaplain second-class with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Mr. L. L. Macey, formerly district telegraph engineer in Auckland, who retired in 1937, has left Auckland for Wellington to resume duty with the department as telegraph engineer at Nelson for the duration of the war. Mr. Justice Northcroft, who presided at the quarterly session of'the Supreme Court in Gisborne this week, left for Napier to-day, following the conclusion of the business yesterday afternoon. He was accompanied by his associate, Mr. Kent.

Mr. R. E. Warn, managing director of Western Electric Sound System, U.S.A., together with Mr. W. G. Leatham, operating manager for New Zealand, arrived at Gisborne yesterday and are making a general inspection of all Western Electric theatre equipment. They expect to leave for Napier this afternoon.

An agricultural student, Mr. David Mcßurney. second son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Mcßurney. Opawa. has received an agricultural scholarship to enable him to take special training in Trinidad. Mr. Mcßurney is 21 years of age and has had a distinguished academic career. He has held both ihe Kitchener scholarship and the Shell scholarship, and in 1940 he was a nominee for the Rhodes scholarship. Advice has been received in Auckland that Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Craven, M.C., Royal Army Medical Corps, medical superintendent of the ' I’ckland Hospital, is commanding officer of the Alexandra Military Hospital on Singapore Island. The Alexandra Military Hospital, which has been fully equipped to meet any emergency, is one. of the finest of its type in the world.