PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 23 April 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr D. A. Goodson, of Kerikeri, North Auckland, who has been visiting Hastings, returned north this morning.

Lord Hirst has been elected president of the Federation of British Industries, reports a London cable.

Sec.-Lieut. W. J. Peel, Ist. Battalion Hawke’s Bay Regiment, has been gazetted to the rank of lieutenant.

Mr W. Tucker, of Whakatu, is an inmate of a Hastings private hospital, where he is undergoing an operation for appendicitis.

Mr G. Deighton, of Wellington, is at present on relieving duties in the traffic department at the Hastings railway station.

The Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker of the House of Representatives, will arrive in Napier on Sunday next on a brief visit. He will return to Wellingtou on Monday afternoon.

Captain A. Bongard, M.C., N.Z. Staff Corps, has been appointed area officer, area 7A, Napier, iu addition to his present appointment of adjutant, First Battalion, Hawke’s Bay Regiment.

Mr. A. C. Mitchell, official employers’ representative at the Labour conference at Geneva this year, is to leave Auckland for Vancouver en route to Europe by the Aorangi on Tuesday next.

Miss K. E. Harvey, of the Wellington Public Library staff, has been selected as the North Island student to obtain a grant of 2500 dollars from the Carnegie Corporation of U.S.A, for the purpose of taking a year’s course of study in children’s library work at the library school, Pittsburg. It is expected Miss Harvey will leave in June. The South Island student has not yet been selected.—Press Assn.

Colonel F. K. Turnbull, D. 5.0., M.C., who is to deliver the address at the Anzac Day ceremony in Hastings, served in the Great War from 1914 to 1919, in Gallipoli, Egypt and France. He was in the Ist Battalion Wellington Regiment, and was thrice mentioned in despatches besides being awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the .Military Cross. Having been educated at the Napier Boys’ High School before going to Wanganui College, he has some association with Hawke’s Bay Colonel Turnbull took the LL.B, degree at Victoria University College, and is a partner in the legal firm of Turnbull and Robertson, Wanganui.