PERSONAL

Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 5, 23 January 1946, Page 5

PERSONAL

Brigadier Stanley H. Crump, D. 5.0., Lower Hutf, has been made a.Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for distinguished services in the Middle East. • • • • Major E. G. Thompson, Captain G. E. Aeon, Lieutenant N. T. Fagg, Lieutenant W. M. Mitchell, Lieutenant B. W. Treseder, Staff-Sergeant H. E. Chapman, and Mrs. Brewer, wife of Captain W. N. Brewer, of Lower Hutt, were among those who returned to New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch this week. • • • • Mr. Hallyburton Johnstone, chairman of the Raglan County Council, has been chosen as the National Party's candidate in the Raglan byelection rendered necessary by the recent death of Mr. R. Coulter. Flight Lieutenant A. C. Baxter, D.F.C., and Bar, a North Island Labour Party organiser since his return from overseas service, has been selected to contest the by-election for the Labour Party. » •-,;-„..'• » At a meeting of the Hutt Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce and Industry this week, regret was voiced that 'the secretary, Mr. Harold Saunders, has had to enter Wellington Hospital owing to illness,, and the hope was expressed that he would soon be restored to health. Mr. Frank Greenaway, vice-president of the chamber, offered to act as temporary secretary.

Lieutenant (acting-Captain( Terence Vaughan, of Lower Hutt, is included in the latest Honours List, having been made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Lieutenant Vaughan was director and conductor of the very successful Kiwi Concert Party in. the Middle East.

Corporal Joseph L. Rentoul, of Lower Hutt, has been awarded the Military Medal for distinguished services in the Middle East.

Mr. R. Lawton was congratulated iby,;> the board of the Hutt Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce and Industry this week on his appointment as executive secretary of the Distributors' Federation of New Zealand and Associated Motor Industries Ltd. • • • • Mr. J. F. Montgomery, of Lower Hutt, secured a pass in Section C of the State Examination in Optics held in Wellington in November. • • • • Mr; Keith Berry, of Lower Hutt, will go to Japan with the New Zealand forces of occupation and will help to edit a servicemen's newspaper there. 9•• * . J, '"Mr. Frank Hutchens, composer and pianist, who has arrived in New Zealand for a concert tour, is a New Zealander, having been born in Hawera. For many years he has been on the staff of the New South Wales Conservatori.um in Sydney. He is a brother of Mr. Will Hutchens, /the well-known musician and competitions judge, of Christchurch.

Among those who passed with credit in the University of New Zealand entrance scholarships for 1945 were Thora Marwick (Hutt Valley High School) and J. D. Corry (St. Patrick's College, Silverstream).

The Sir James Wilson Medal for the first-year sheep-farming course at Massey Agricultural Collegj was awarded recently to R. P. Williams, of Lower Hutt.

Messrs M. Glasspole and R. Easton were unable to be present at this week's meeting of the board of the Hutt Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as they were visiting Auckland.