PERSONAL ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 4 October 1949, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Officers elected at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, which opened yesterday at New Plymouth, were: President, Mr M. Gandar (Wellington); vicepresident, Mr F. C. Basire (Wellington) ; council, Messrs C. A. Lawn (Wellington), and T. S. Roe (Auckland). —Press Assn.

The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at Karoro Cemetery of the late Mr William Flockhart Ford, following a service at Sampson's Chapel, conducted by the Rev. T. G. Campbell. There was a large attendance of friends, while numerous tributes were also forwarded in testimony of the esteeem in which the late Mr Ford was held.

Mr F. J. Fitts; vice-president of the Wellington Central Branch of the Labour Party, has been selected as the Labour candidate for the Waitomo electorate. Mr Fitts, who is 34 years of age, is a civil servant. He is on the staff of the Stores Control Board in Wellington. He served five years with the forces in New Zealand during World War II. —Press Assn.

The* Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Dr. G. F. Fisher, is tu visit New Zealand for the Canterbury Centennial nex\ year, probably about December. This was announced by the Bishop of Chichester, the Rt. Rev. G. K. Bell, when speaking at a service in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland on Sunday.

The Netherlands Minister to New Zealand, Mr J. B. D. Pennink, stated yesterday at Wellington that he would leave on Friday week next by air for Sydney, en route to New Caledonia, wherd he is to be Holland’s senior representative at the fourth session of the South Pacific Commission. Mr Pennink is anxious to return by the end of this month to the Dominion in order to welcome the new Dutch immigrants who have been demobilised from th e army in Indonesia, the first party of whom are due at Auckland between October 24 and October 28.—Press Assn.

A member of prominent pioneer families, Miss E. I. G. Vogel, aged 72 died on Saturday at Wellington. She was the widow of Mr H. B. Vogel, a Wellington city councillor and later editor of “The People,” London, and was a granddaughter of Mi’ Nathaniel Levin who, in 1841 founded Levin and Company, and of Mr James Edward Fitzgerald, the first Premier of New Zealand. A daughter of the late Mr W. H. Levin, Mrs Vogel was born in England and spent much of her life there. She revisited New. Zealand in April, last, intending to remain.

With an academic background, including study 7 of English literature, drama, and mythology, Miss Beverley L. Cooper, 8.A., will arrive in Wellington to-morrow to study English literature and Maori folklore at Canterbury University College. Miss Cooper is an additional recipient of a bursary under the She is 22 years of age, and has just graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University. As a result of her studies in New Zealand, Miss Cooper hopes to write short stories, articles, and plays based on Maori traditions, in which she believes a wide field is open. Another Fulbright bursar, Mr Richard I. Gilson, is also due in Wellington to-morrow. He is from Los Angeles, and he will attend Victoria College to study political science.—Press Assn.

Dr. E. R. Dalziel, a former, West Coaster, 'but more recently of Palmerston North, has been appointed lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the New South Wales University of Technology. Accompanied by Mrs Dalziel, he left New Zealand last week to take up his appointment. Dr. Dalziel was bom at Ngahere, where his father, Mr Edwin Dalziel took up a soldier's farm, after World War I. On the death of her husband, Mrs Dalziel and her two sons moved to Greymouth, where they 7 resided some years before leaving for Dunedin. Dr. Dalziel began his education at Cobden School and went on to obtain his degree in mathematics at Dunedin where he won university 7 scholarship that entitled him to two years at the Glasgow University. Pie is 27 years of age and has been on the staff of the Palmerston North Technical School for the past two years.