PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 239, 6 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr H. MeFeely,- first assistant teacher at the Wellington South School, has been appointed headmaster of a school iii the Hawera district.

Rev. A. C. K. Harper, of Ross, has been appointed vicar of Akaroa by the parochial nominators of the Akaroa parish. Mr Harper has been vicar of Ross since 1937, and before that w 7 as vicar of Kumara.

Mr and Mrs L. Gold have returned to Palmerston North from South Africa, where they have resided for two years. During that time they have been in several parts of the country, including Pretoria and Johannesburg.

Rev. E. P. Blamires, formerly youth director of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, who has supplied a church at Alton. Hampshire, for nearly a vear, has been transferred temporarily to the British Methodist Conference, and appointed to the Sheringham Circuit, Norfolk.

It is announced from No. 10 Downing Street that, to assist the Minister of Supply in the supply and distribution of raw materials, including the work of raw material controls, the King has approved that Lord Portal be appointed additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply. British Official Wireless.

The Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council has been successful in finding a successor to Mr E. M. Bardsley, who found it necessary to resign from the position of hon. secretary. Hon. Vincent Ward has offered his services and they have bedn accepted. Mr Ward has been actively identified with patriotic activities in the vicinity of Trentliam Camp and in other avenues, and early last month he was appointed to a vacancy on the National Patriotic Council.