PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 February 1926, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Sydney cable announces that the Rev. F. W. Hynes has been elected president of the New South IV ales Methodist Conference.

News has been received from the Department of Overseas Trade in London that Mi- L.- B. Beale, His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner at Vancouver, has been appointed to succeed Mr Noel Elmslie as His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner in New Zealand. Mr Beale is expected to arrive in Auckland on April 26 (savs a Press Association message). After considerable business experience both in the United Kingdom and Canada, Mr Beale accepted a posilion in the'service of the Government of British . Columbia with the forest branch of the Department of Lands. In 1918 h© was engaged on a special mission to the United and France as timber trade commissioner for his Government, and. in February, 1919, he entered His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner sendee, being appointed to a post at Winnipeg. In April, 1923, his headquarters were transferred to Vancouver, from which centre he continued to control the activities of the Trade Commissioner nost at Winnipeg.

Included in the published results of the November University examinations 's the name of Mr D. L. Bone, eldest son of Mr and Mrs L. A. Bone, of Hawera, who has secured his LL.M. degree with the equivalent of first-class honours. Mr Bone received the -whole of his primary schooling at the Hawera School, of which be was dux in 1910. He. matriculated from tie Waitaki Boys’ H-’gh School in 1915 and entered, the office of Messrs Harwell. Spratt and Thomson in' Hawera, where his law studies were commenced, to be interrupted later when he went overseas with the Forces. He is now practising his nrofession with the firm of Sellar and Gardiner, in Auckland.