PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mi A. J. Conway, of the secretarial staff of the Minister of Finance. has been appointed secretary of the Trana* port Co-ordination Board.

Mr, D. R. de Costa, for over 27 year* secretary of the Poverty Bay Turf Club, has decided to retire from that position for health reasons.

Mr. C. K. McLean, Dunedin, baa been elected chairman and Mr. D. C. Macpherson vice-chairman of the Otago Chapter of the New Zealand institute ef Certified Secretaries.

Mr A. Tyror, examiner of the Trinity College of Music, Loudon, who has beet in Napier and Hastings since Friday, left "this morning for Palmerstot North.

Mr W. Johnston, District Land Registrar, of Auckland, is spending a fortnight’s holiday in Napier, and is staying with hie sister, Mrs A. E. Gardner, May Avenue.

Mr. F. W. Hobbs, of Christchurch, has been nominated as president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, it succession to Mr. A. F. Wright. Mr. L. O. K. Steven has been nominated at vice "resident.

Mr. Kenneth Criehten, of the Publit “'Trust Office, Napier, has received notice of his transfer to the Inspectors’ Division, Head Office, Wellington, and will leave to take up his new duties . in about a fortnight. J

Mr. and Mrs. Heath Johnson", of Gisborne, flew down from Gisborne tt Napier yesterday in a Hawke’s Bay Aero Club machine piloted by FlightLieut. A. G. Gerrand, and are spending a week at the Centra) Hotel. Owing to head’ winds and bad visibility, the flight took some forty minutes over the usual hour.

Archdeacon F. W. Chatterton, view of St. Luke's, Rotorua, has intimated to the Bishop of Waiaptl, hie intention to retire from his ministry at the end of the present year. The arehdeaeon has been at Rotorua for nearly 16 years. He had previously spent 17 years in the training of Maori clergy at Te Ran College, Gisborne, following Ifl years’ service in the Nelson diocese.

Bishop Sprott, of Wellington, announces the appointment of Canon James, Vicar of St. Paul's ProCathedral, to be Vicar-General of the Wellington dioeese; Archdeacon Hansell to be Archdeacon of Wellington in succession to the late Archdeacon Johnson; the Rev. W. Bullock, Vicsf of St. Peter's, Wellington, to be Archdeacon of Wairarapa, in succession *0 Archdeacon Hansell.—PriWs Assn.

Lady Moore, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Caton,' Mr. P. H. Adams, Miss M. Adams, Mr. C. Marshall Smith, Mm. M. E. Halliday, Mr. Perey Burrell, Mrs. Whittle, Miss Nora Whittle, Mr G. A. H. Chapman, and Mr. A. D. Mellish, are members of the Royal Empire i Society who will arrive at Wellington by the Tainui on .September 18. They —■ trill spend a brief period in the Dominion before proceeding to Melbourne for the Centenary celebrations.

Mr. G. C. Billing, lecturer in economics, Otago University, has been grant-* ed the degree of .Ph.D. Mr. Billing went to England in 1932 with a Rockefeller fellowship, and- has been studying at the London School of Economica. His treatise for his degree was on “The Relation of Protection to the Industrial Development of New Zealand. ” Mr. and Mrs. Billing and theit young child will leave London in Oetober. They will spend two months at Adelaide before going on to Dunedin. Recentlv they enjoyed a trip to Denmark, Sweden and Norway.