PERSONAL

Northern Advocate, 21 July 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

Miss E, Gcdney, ■ of Palmerston North, has been appointed matron of the Wallace Hospital, Riverton,

Mr T. P. Laurenson, district manager of the Government Insurance Department. in Dunedin, who has been j appointed district manager in Auck- j land, left Dunedin yesterday to take | . , j up his new duties. i Mr W. IT. Bowler, registrar and ‘ commissioner of the Native Land j Court at Wanganui, will retire on j superannuation this week. He joined i the Native Land Court staff in Auck- j land in 1804. The Rev. Father Prindivillc has been i appointed Coadjutor Roman Catholic j Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia, with the. right to succession. Only ins years of age, he is the youngest 1 archbishop in Christendom, The members of the Transport Appeal Board, Mr Justice Frazer and I Messrs L. Alderton and T, Jordan, accompanied by Mr J. Gilmore, clerk to j the board, left this morning for Kaitaia, where they will continue their sittings. They will then return to j Auckland, where they will sit for a i fortnight before going south.

The Whangarei District Hospital at present is quite a rendezvous for wellknown identities of the district. Among the patients are Messrs Roland Hill, of Tangihna, and Arthur Wright, of Main’s Avenue, both of whom have been under treatment for some time. His many friends will be delighted to learn that Mr F. J. Mullins, of Tikipunga, has been discharged from the institution and after an illness of five weeks has now* entered upon the period of convalescence proper.