PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21753, 30 June 1945, Page 6

PERSONAL

Miss Eileencoad, of the Baptist Missionary Society,- will be a visitor to G isbbriie -this ’ week-end."' Miss - Coad has spent 10 years working in East Bengal-and the Tripura State. ; :f The engineer of the. poverty Bay Elbitric-Powbr- Board, 1 ML Matthewson, is attending 1 a regional Conference of ’ executive officers lit Auckland. " u '‘

at the monthly meeting of the Poverty ■ Bay ' Electric-Power Board yesterday' were Messrs. F. R. Bali, chairman, A. A'. Fraser, B. J. Holdsworth, M. T. Trafford, D. W. W. Williams, : J. H. Hall. F: Tolerton, 'J. E. Benson, G. D. Muirh'eacj, pf. JL £ray and H; L.- Tempest. J ‘ r '~y Mr; Francis Leveson-Gower West, Auckland, has been -appointed ‘a member of'the speCM tribufial P'nder'tlie national' service ' emergency r^guJa 2 tions, according to a Gfizette r notice.

The New Zealand Gazette' announces the' appointment 1 of ML Henry;'Aiken Young to be a temporary’ stipendiary magistrate from June'2s to September 30 this year.—P.A. ' Miss Claudine Hawkins, tutor of arts and crafts, Victoria Upiyersity, Wellington, has arrived at Gisborne to arrange study groups and give lectures. These will include ctafts and applied design, interior decorating and costume design. Miss Hawkins is a Student of the Slade School, University of London, and has had extensive experience in cosjume design 1 and Stage 'settings, Which’' she: studied under leading designers 'in Londbii and Paris. ; . •’

1 • Many' Gisborne people have evinced keen interest in the forthcoming visit to Gisborne of the Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, who is engaged in a tour of New ZealaniT in which he is conducting a long series of meetings under the auspices of interdenominational Committees in -the various- centres. Mr. Fletcher has gained status .as an Empire evangelist since his days with the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland, which he transformed from a typical “empty church” into one’ of the most successful and progressive institutions in the Dominion. “ ,