PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 217, 12 August 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The King has approved the appointment of Major-General the Duke of Gloucester to be Chief Liaison Officer to the Home Forces, states the British Official Wireless. The Duke waq Chief Liaison Officer to tho B.E.F. in Franco from September last year. Rev. G. S. King, lias resigned from his charge of Strath-Taieri, Otago, and is shortly to take over a charge at Motueka.

Mr R. A. Morgan, who has been attached to the National Bank of New Zealand in Christchurch for the last 25 years, has been appointed manager of the bank’s branch in Milton.

The granting to Mr J. B. Smillie, of Palmerston North, of a temporary commission with tho rank of flying-officer in the equipment branch of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is gazetted. Lieutenant-Colonel A. D. Stitt, D. 5.0., M.C., who went overseas with the New Zealand Main Body in the Great War, is now in charge of a military district in Kenya. LieutenantColonel Stitt left with the Canterbury Regiment, and commanded tho Ist Battalion at the end of the war.

Mr L. E. B. Edwards, who has been stationmaster at Bluff for the last eight years, is to retire soon on superannuation. Mr Edwards joined the Railway Department as a cadet at Addington in 1900. and served in various capacities, including that of clerk at Timaru and stationmaster at St. Andrews, Omakau, Ranfurly and Waikari.