PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rev. A. AlcNeur has been granted six months’ leave, of absence by the Christchurch Presbytery and appointed chaplain to the Forces. Mr Philip Thorne, of Christchurch, clerk of the New Zealand Society of Friends, is the guest of Air and Mrs B. L. Elphiek, of Church Street, for a few days.

Mr E. it. AVimsett, president of the Alanawatu Boxing Association, is attending the annual conference of the New r Zealand Boxing Association in Wellington. The death has occurred suddenly of Mr William Cuthbert McCaw, a leading Auckland orthopaedic surgeon and chairman of the honorary statf of the Auckland Hospital. Air W. L. Newham, engineer-in-chief of Public AVorks, and Air T. Al. Ball, assistant engineer-in-chief, have been appointed chairman and deputy chairman respectively of the Main Highways Board. Messrs L. J. T. P. Hagan, L. M. Hobbs, and A. T. AV. Sharp, of Palmerston North, have been admitted to membership of the New/ Zealand Society of Accountants with the status of A.R.A.N.Z. (associate registered accountant). An announcement that the Government lias secured the services of Dr. F. C. Soper, Professor of Chemistry at the Otago University, to act as chemical adviser, on munitions w'as made last night by the Aiinister of Supply and Munitions (Hon. D. G. Sullivan).

The results of the triennial election for the elective members on the Government Railways Superannuation Fund Board have been gazetted as follows: Air J. AV. Shepherd, representative of the first division in the North Island (elected unopposed); Air J. S. Roscoe, representative of the first division of the South Island (reelected unopposed); Alessrs S. AV. Gaspar, J. Elliott, and J. H. Terry, representatives of the second division.

The death has occurred of Dr. Robert B. Grey, aged 34. For 6ix months he served in Egypt with the Imperial Forces during the time of the ltalianAbyssinian campaign. Dr. Grey was the first medical man sent from New Zealand to serve in the war area in China by the joint council of the Venerable Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross iSocietv, \yhich administered the Far East Relief Fund. After nine months’ service in China he returned to New Zealand. At the time of his death Dr. Grey w'as practising at AVairoa.