PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2076, 17 March 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Dr Reddington, a fully qualifle medical student, has been appointe house surgeon at the Wanganui Ho; pital. Mr W. A. G. Penlington, B.A lately director of vocational trainint has been appointed first assistant an acting director of the Hastings Teel: nical High School. Mr R. Jordan, assistant town cler at Palmerston North, has been ai: pointed secretary to the Ashburto Electric Power Board. There wer sixty-seven applicants for the positior Mr’Arthur Pownall, of Wanganu has been appointed assistant engineei ing instructor at Wanganui Tcchnict College. Mr Pownall is well-kown i Wanganui, and particularly in sport ing circles. Mr Rowland Thompson, late of th Cashier’s Department of Imperic Supplies in Wellington, has bee selected from about one hundred ap plicants for the position of secretar of the Rangitikei Dairy Compan (Bulls). The Rev. James Ings, moderator o the Auckland Presbytery, tendered hi resignation of his charge of the Kno Church, Parnell. It was decided tha the letter lie on the table for a montl and that a commission from th Presbytery interview the minister an congregation. It is understood that the soldier set tiers in the Wairarapa have a petitio: in circulation which is being large! signed, praying that Brigadier-Genera H. E. Hart, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., wil consent to come forward as a candi date for the Wairarapa seat in the in terests of the Liberal and Moderat Labour Party. The following have been appointei officers of the Palmerston Nortl branch of the South African Veterans Association for the ensuing year:— President, Major J. T. Bosworth (re elected); vice-president, Captain G. W Braddell: secretary and treasurer, M A. T. Bendall (re-elected): committee Messrs E. C. Gillandcrs (re-elected) W. Wilson, F. Carpenter, E. Haslocl and Captain W. H. Lambert. “The Unknown” has been engagei to sing each afternoon in Collinsoi and Cunninghame’s delightful te'a rooms. Eulogised by Professor Mar shall Hall, fresh from seven weeks en gagement in Christchurch, reportei by press as “u. charming tenor,” “o unusual merit,” etc. “The Unknown' will sing this afternoon from 3.80 “Because,” “Over the Hills of Heart’ Content,” “The Road that Leads k You,” and “Absent.”* '