PEESONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17782, 16 May 1921, Page 6

PEESONAL ITEMS.

Mr- L. Birks. chief Government eleo- \ - : trical engineer, is at present visitin-» ," Ckristchnrch. -, 5 Mr. T. Scollay has been elected unopposed to the chairmanship of ths ; Otago Harbour' Board. •||| Mr.» William Tonks, of Auckland, has "' been appointed an analyst under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act. Mr. H. J. IX- Mahon, who attended Ahe recent education conference at Wellington, returned by the afternoon express on Saturday. Commissioner H. C. Hodder, of the g a j. \; vation Army, who has been visiting Auckland, left for the South by ths % Main Trunk express last evening. Father O'Carroll has been appointed to take charge of the Morrinsville RomanCatholic parish, in place of Father O'Connor, who has been transferred to Ponsonby. Dr. E. J* Owen, Dr. E. L. Renton, and / Messrs. A. H. Cranwell and W. J. Ren. ton-Jeft by the Main Trunk express lastevening to attend the forthcoming dental conference at Wellington. \ Mr. J. F. Mackley, who until recently was assistant locomotive engineer, New Zealand railways, on the Wellington see-' tion, has been appointed locomotive engineer for the Westland district. Mr. George Eiiott has been appointed secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association. For the past two years Mr. Eliofct, who held the rank of captain in the N.Z.E.F., has been president of the' association. Mr. H. Hart, of Masterton, who Las been visiting Auckland, left for the South by the Main Trunk express lasf evening.' Mr. Hart attained the rank, of brigadier-general during the war, andf was awarded the D.S.O. for his military ' services. * ;

Sir. F. L. Law, who has been incharge of the Anglican Chinese -.Mission in the diocese of ' Wellington, ' Christchnrch, and Waiapu for seven years, will leave for Sydney, en route to China, on! Thursday. He will be accompanied bv Mrs. Law and family. Mr. P. D. Leslie, who has Relinquished; i the New . Zealand management of the ' Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Company to tak<s charge of the company's affairs in. South Africa, left Wellington on Friday by the Moeraki for Svdnev, where ho will join the Euripides. " **'—; -Mr! WilliamtS. Vernon, late acting.pr.s- - of physics at Auckland University College, has accepted a position with the Air Force, in the instrument del: • sign establishment at Biggin Hill, KentV" He is to carry on research work in wire'. ' less telegraphy and: telephony as applied' to aircraft, ," »