PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Issue 17266, 16 September 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr, vJ. F. Ewen'- was a passenger fig? - Wellington by last evening's express, Mr. G. F. Johnston has been gazottwi Vice-Gonsul for Belgium at Wellington. " ; ,~ •■The Rev. C. H. Laws, of Pitt Street -v' Methodist Church, is 'on a .visit to iha -' South. M --^

Mr. J. Woodall, Deputy-Mayor of ■*& Devonport, will leave this week on a ' '"' 1 month's visit to Australia. ■■.% .'*

Captain G. A. Miller, R.A.F., who hag had five years' service with the Imperial >: Army and Eoyal Air Force, is a passen- .li ger by the Westralia, which is due here i from Sydney to-morrow. "•

Mr. J. Cnllen, 1.5.0., commisisoner uncharge of the Jugoslav organisation branch of the Defence Department, will leave today for the Waikato on matters connected with the Department. Later in the week he will visit the Tongariro National Park in his capacity of honorary warden.

Mr. W. S. Vernon, M.Sc, lecturer hi physics under Professor Owen at the Auckland University, was appointed by the College Council yesterday as actingProfessor of Physics for the year 1920 in place of Professor Owen, who will leave New Zealand shortly to take up the position of Professor of Physics at the tJniversity College of Wales, at Aberystwyth.

Mr. H. W. Hemingway, of Auckland, who is at present in Australia on a health trip, has forwarded his resignation as lecturer in accountancy and commercial law at the Auckland University College. The letter conveying the resignation, read at the meeting of the college council yesterday, stated that throat trouble would prevent him continuing his lectures. The council received the resignation with regret; recording its appreciation of the services rendered to the college by Mr. Hemingway, and expressing regret at the cause which compelled him to resign. The resignation will take effect six months hence.