PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 97, 23 March 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Sir Francis Frazer has been elected chairman of the council of the New Zealand School of Agriculture. Air Justice Fair, who has boe.n on leave since the end of last year, will resume his duties in the Supreme Court after the Easter vacation.

Pte. Harold Davenport, only son of Airs Davenport, of Donnington .■street, Palmerston North, is at present spending leave with his mother. He is a. member of the Second Echelon. His father was killed in action in the Great War. Rev. Professor A. E. All>:ston, M.A., 8.D., President-General of the Alethodiot Church of Australasia, and Centennial visitor to the New Zealand Methodist Conference, is to visit Palmerston North on Thursday next, and will be the guest of Rev. Clarence Eaton and Airs Eaton, of St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Air R. S. Allwright, who has been station mas ter in vVanganui lor the past two years, has been appointed stationmaster in Wellington. Air G. C. Carney, assistant gods agent in Wellington, will replace Air Allwright. The appointment of Mr C. H. Trask, stationmaster at Napier, to stationmaster at Auckland, has been announced. Minister of the Epsom Presbyterian Church for the past seven years, Rev. J. W. AlcKeiizie has been appointed senior chaplain of the Presbyterian Church with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Air AicKenzie, who has been a chaplain for more than 17 years, was selected by the assembly’s chaplains committee lor this post, and lie lias now been accepted and passed physically fit. Pilot-Officer R. O. Lawry, who is serving with the Royal Air Force ill England, and who is the only son oi Mr H. P. Lawry, 8.M., and Mrs Lawry, was engaged in patrol work and enjoyed the thrill of finding the Altmark in Norwegian waters, this leading to the recovery of the British prisoners by H AI.S. Comack. Advice of their son’s exploit has reached Air and Airs Lawry through friends who are visiting New Zealand alter coming from England by air.