PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 20 August 1919, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The ; Yen. Archdeacon York has been appointed Vicar at Blenheim.

Mr Malcohn Ro£s, who has been official war correspondent with the New Zealand Division, is returning to NW Zealand shortly.

Mr Garth Gill (Westport) has been appointed to th© secretarial positions ;of the Havelock Town Board and the HaVeJbek Harbor Board. Mr Girl, who is a discharged soldier, is a son of Major J. S. Gill (Westport), wellknowjn in, military circles.

Dr" D. L. Freeman, of the staff of the Christ-church Technical College, has been appointed instructor in agriculture under the Auckland Educr.tion Board. Dr Freeman is a Doctor of Philosophy of Halle University, Germany, and he holds English diplomas in dairying and agriculture. Some"years .ago he was Assistant Inspector of Agriculture in New South Wales.

■ A cablo message received at the veok-end enables the announcement to be made that the Rev. Frederick Pring-lvowe, at present a chaplain in the British forces, has been ap-l-ointed \icar of All Saints', Nelson. The Rev. Mr Pring-Rowe, who is about 46 years of age, was educated at London College of Divinity and at St. John's, Highbury. He took firstclass honors at the Universities theological examination in 1905. and in the same year was ordained deacon by the bishop of St. Albans," andtwns curate of St. Stephen's, Walthamstow, from lfX)5 *to 1907; of St. John's, Lowestoft, from 1907 to 1910; organising secretary of the Church Missionary Society, Norwich, from 1910 to 1914; and vicar of St. John the Baptist, Islington, 1914.* At the beginning of 1016 the Rev. Mr Fring-Rowe went to France as a chaplain. He will be unable to leave England till towards the end of the year.