PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Superintendent D. C. Fraser, superintendent of police at Auckland and formerly inspector at Hamilton, retired yesterday. His successor, as already announced, is Superintendent J. Cummings, of Palmerston North.

Advice has been received that Mr C. B. Horning, assistant engineer at the Public Works Department’s camp ac Kopuawhara, has been awarded the Bayliss Prize of the Institute of Civil Engineers, London. The award is made annually to the entrant securing the highest percentage of marks in the examination for admission as an associate member of the institute.

The appointment is announced of Mr E. A. Cameron, manager of the Auckland branch of the Bank of Australasia, as inspector for New Zealand in succession to Mr H. T. Thodey, of Wellington, who will retire on April 10 after 44 years’ service with the bank in Australia and New Zealand. Mr It. G. Bennett, accountant at the Auckland branch, will succeed Mr Cameron as manager.

Deputy-Superintendent J. W. Hcpbiirn has been appointed to represent the Palmerston North Fire Brigade at the annual conference of the Union of Fire Brigades and the biennial demonstration, which are to be held in Wanganui in March. Mr Hepburn will later represent the brigade at the annual conference of the Institute of “ire Engineers of Great Britain, in Wellington. Rev. William Shirer, 0.8. E., Presbyterian minister emeritus, who died at his residence, in Wellington, yesterday, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1858 and was educated in that city. He also studied at Edinburgh University and the United Presbyterian Theological Hall. From 1880 to 1885 Mr Shirer was engaged in home mission work in Bristol and elsewhere. He was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church in 1888, and afterward came to New Zealand as minister of St. James’s Church, Wellington South, where he served long and faithfully. Mr Shirer was chaplain of the sth (Wellington) Regiment, gained the long service medal and received the 0.8. E.. For some time he acted as convenor of the chaplains’ committee.