PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18104, 31 May 1922, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. A. A. Prichard has been appointed deputy superintendent of the Sta*e Advances Office in Wellington.

Mr. Lawrence Birks, chief electrical engineer to the Public Works Deaartment, left for the South by the Slain Trunk express last evening.

Archbishop Julius will be given a public welcome back to Christcaurch on the evening of June 6. It is hoped the Governor-General and tho Prime Minister will bo present.

Mr. D. Gillies, Public Works engineer for tho West Coast district of the South Island, will retire on -superannuation in August. Mr. Gillies ha 3 been intimately associated with tho West Coast for many years.

Mr. Edward Smith, of Newton, president of the northern division of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Society, has been elected a member of the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand, in succession to* the late Mr. P. M. Mackay.

Mr. H. C. Cameron, who hag been attached for about a-quarter of a century to the High Commissioner's Office in London, will, it is announced, retire shortly. Of late years Mr. Cameron has been immigration officer.

Mr. J. H. Bradney, who was appointed by the Governor-General to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. H. D. Heather, took hi 3 seat at the Harbour Board meeting yesterday afternoon, being welcomed by the chairman.

Dr. J. Allan Berry has been appointed superintendent of the Napier Hospital in succession to Or. Thomas Giiray. Dr. Berry, who was formerly connected with journalism in Napier, is an old Hawke'a Bay boy who served with distinction with the Medical Corps during tho war.

Mr. M. Foley, deputy registrar of the Supreme Court and clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Napier, has received notice of hir" promotion to the position of clerk of the Court at Dunedin. Mr. Foley has been in Nafiier since 1818, and previous to that he was in Masterton. Mr. G. G, Cbisholm, of Oamaru, vdll be Mr. Foley's successor.

Mr. Va] Ingram, late Captain Royal Engineers, returned to New Zealand by the Ruahine after Svo years' active service in Mesopotamia. Mr. Ingram, soma 12 years ago, obtained his chief engineer's certificate in London. In the early part of the war he was engaged in the carrying of war materials from America to France, and later conveying troops and munitions to Archangel. Mr. Ingram is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Ingram, of Wellington.