PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16798, 14 March 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mil, F. H. Britlain, inspector of storls ,"■ for the Marlborough district, has received "H notice of his transfer to Auckland. '-S; Mr. E. T. Wray, agency manager in. %} New Zealand for Hie Colonial Mutual l.ifo Assurance Society, is in Auckland, Ml 1 . George T. Niccol lias been appointed a director of tlio Northern Steamship Company in place of the late Mr. John Brown. I Mr. W. H. Smith was appointed local superintendent of the Devonport technical classes for 1918, at the meeting of tho , Auckland Education Hoard yesterday. ! Tho Rev. S. Nixon and Mr. E. Smith •were appointed by the Education Board Yesterday as 'its representatives on tho Pukckoho Technical School Advisory Committee. ; The Rc\. L. 13. Husfielil, of Sydenham, I Chriitclmrch, has accepted a call to tho pastorate of the Ponsonby Baptist Church. Jlie dale of the commencement of his ministry has not yet been fixed. i Colonel 0. W. S. Patterson, officer command'np Auckland military district and Major Sir Robert Walker, general staff officer, left yesterday on a visit of inspection to the' No. 2, Haurak'i and No. 4, Waikalo, group areas. I Mr. J. R. Russell Ross, formerly of the film of J, R. Ross and Company, of Nelson Street, has obtained his commission ns engineer-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. I Lieutenant Ross, who is a son of Captain ! W. Ross, has been on service at sea for ' about a year. ' Mr T. Harlc Giles, conciliation commissioner, bins returned to Auckland from Oisborne, where he presided over disputed in tho operative baton and pastrycooks' and the furniture workers' trade?" Full settlements were arrived at in both cases, and increases of pay were granted to em. j ployece. ' The Rev. J. Reed Glasson, who was elected chairman of the Congregational Union at Christchurch last night, says tho Press Association, will complete next year 25 years' service with tho Congregations I Uri">n of New Zealand, and as minister of tho Terraco Congregational Church, Wellington.