Personal

Northern Advocate, 20 November 1943, Page 2

Personal

Miss I. G. McKenzie, B.H.Sc., of the Wanganui Technical College, has been appointed instructress in domestic science and dressmaking at the Whangarei High School, in place of Miss T. Simons, who was recently appointed dietitian at the Auckland Hospital. Miss McKenzie has taught domestic science in Wanganui, and has taken a keen interest in the outside activities of the girls. She will take up her duties at the beginning of 1944.

Mr and Mrs J. G. Barclay returned to Whangarei by the express yesterday afternoon after visiting relatives at Timaru and Christchurch and holidaying for three weeks in the Marlborough Sounds. Next week Mr Barclay intends to inspect the R.S.A. training farm established under the Homewood Trust at Tauranga. At the time the trust was established he was made chairman of trustees and lias not previously been able to visit the farm.

Mrs C. M. A. Tucker, 23 Kensington Avenue, received cabled advice from friends in England yesterday that her son, Sergeant Leo Tucker, was safe and well in a German prisoner of war camp. Sergeant Tucker, who sailed with the Second Echelon, fought in Greece. Crete and the early Libyan campaigns before being captured at the battle of El Alamein. He had been interned in an Italian camp and last night's message was the. first received of him since the capitulatiion of Italy.