PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

Ttev. H. O. Brickland, assistant fcurato at Ngaruawahia, has been appointed vicar of Reefton, in the diocese of Nelson.

At a meeting of the council of the New Zealand .Football Association in Wellington last night Mr L. O. Atkinson wrote resigning the position of secretary to the association on account of the pressuro of business. The resignation was accepted with regret, and members expressed appreciation of the services Mr Atkinson had rendered to the association. It was decided to appoint Mr A. Williams to the office until the next annual meeting. Mr Williams was for .21 years secretary to the Wellington Football Association, which office he resigned two years ago. '

Looking much improved in health, the Minister of Labour, Hon. G. J. Anderson, returned to New Zealand yesterday from his eight months’ trip abroad. Mr Andersom left Wellington m March last in order to consult a London specialist concerning his health. He visited the Continent and Scotland, and was present with Sir James Farr, High Commissioner for New Zealand, at the signing of the Kellogg Peace Pact in Paris. He returned to New Zealand via South Africa and Australia, spending about a month in the Commonwealth. Interviewed yesterday, Mr Anderson declined to say anything for publication, either about his trip abroad or concerning the change which has taken place in the political outlook in his absence.