PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 278, 24 November 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. N. D. Jones, traffic superintendent for Quantas Airways for the LondonSydney service, has arrived on a holiday visit to New Zealand. Major G. H. TVeir, eldost son of Mrs. G. TVeir, of Palmerston North, who has been appointed quartermaster of the Maori Battalion at Trentham leaves for camp immediately. Rev. A. P. Blamires, of Auckland, honorary secretary of the New Zealand Council of Religious Education, who is at present in England, has taken temporary charge of a church at Alton, Hampshire. Ho will take the opportunity of doing research work in parent education. Tho Council of Victoria University College, Wellington, at a meeting last evening appointed Professor R. O. MeGechan, 8.A., LL.B., of Sydney, to the vacant chair of law in succession to tho late Professor James Adamson. Mr. McGechan is deputy professor of law in tho University of Sydney. Pastor Helmut Rehbein, who is visiting Christchurch, las, with his wife, been attending tho General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Pastor Rehbein left Germany for conscientious reasons and came to New Zealand after a period in England. It is expected that ho will enter the ministry of tho Presbyterian Churhc and take an appointment as lecturer in history at Ivnox Theological College, Dunedin. Eleven candidates from the New Zealand University Colleges presented themselves at Government House on Wednesday and from this number Mr. M. TV. Speight (Auckland) and Mr. H. E. Garrett (Lincoln Agricultural College) were selected as the two New Zealand Rhodes scholars for next year. The selection committee was presided over by his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway. Out of 22 applicants the Auckland University Council chose Mr. Thomas David James Leech, of Sydney University, to succeed Professor S. E. Lamb as Professsor of Engineering at the Auckland University College. Professor Lamb is retiring at tho end of the year after a lengthy period of service at the college. Professor Leech, who was born in Sydney in 1902, is married and has a family of four. Ho had been lecturer in civil engineering at the University of Sydney and University Extension Board lecturer in aeronautics since 192(3, and has been lecturer in aerodynamics at the university during this year.

“Admiral Byrd will leave about November 1 for tho Antarctic,” says a recent issue of “Science,” the American weekly scientific journal. The U.S. Government has decided to retain the cutter “Northland,” one of the three 3hips to be used in this expedition, in home waters during the war period. Admiral Byrd had made plans for the Northland to go to New Zealand with the “North Star” and then proceed to Little America, while the barquentino “Bear” was to pick up supplies at Valparaiso. Now that tho “Northland” has been withdrawn the “Bear” and “North Star” will go to New Zealand and proceed to Antarctica. Afterwards, they will pick up personnel and equipment awaiting them at Valparaiso.