PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22099, 3 May 1935, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. NT. Cole Trill leave to-day by thy Monowai for Sydney. Mr. W. D. Colgate returned from Wellington yesterday. Mr. A. E. Da<ry, of Wellington, is at the Station Hotel; Mr. S. W. Alison returned from 1® Wellington by train yesterday morning^|j Mr. W. Good Follow wa; a passenger from iJie Soutli by train yesterday. ;, : p morning. Mr. Justice Fair returned to Auck- %m land last evening; from Hamilton, accompanied by Mrs. Fair. Mr. 11. A. Figgis, accountant t,o th» British Phosphate Commission,. will return to Australia by the Monowai today. Mr- 0. B. Tanker, postmaster at the V: Frankton Junction railway post offieo,' has been promoted to be mails, supor-jl® intendent in Cbristchurch. Dr. 1!. 0. Q.uici, formerly of the rosi- •'] dene msdical staff of the Auckland Hos-, pital, tas left fcr London to undertake it r post-graduate study- in Britain and on ■ the Continent.

Mr. F. C. Brown, chief pouJtry instructor under the Department of Agri- > >* culture,, retired this week after Jl3 years' .service. Ho has been succeeded "by Mr. C. Cussein. " .";ii

Mr. A. H. Champion, Auckland man-, ager for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited, will leave by the | Monowai to-day for Sydney, accom- . panied by Mrs. Champion.

Mr. J. Morris Scobie, of Canterbury {i| University College, who has been ajv r|| pointed to the staff of the Seddon: \m Memorial Technical College, will take J? up his duties tb.is month.

The 'Rev. F. T.. Read, who has retired from the presidency of the Christchurch Returned Soldier?' Association after three years in office, has been elected a, life id ember of the association,.

Mr. R. H. TFtting, who has been manager of the Auckland Sunday School (Inion book depot for the past 10 years, has been appointed manager of the Methodist Church book depot. Brisbane.

Mr. J. G. Gilbert-Lodge, governing director of Gilbert-Lodge and Company, London, who has been on a business" tour of New Zealand, will leave ty the Monowai to-day for Sydney, en route to the Far East.

Mr. W. S. Pratt, who has been in charge of the Reefton District High School for the past 5} years, has been appointed headmaster of Marlborough College, Blenheim. Ho will take up his new position after the term holidays.

Mr. XL Neabitt, Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, and Mr. J'. Payne, assistant-- trade commissioner, arrived from Wellington , yesterday morning on a visit of a few days to Auckland. They are at the- Grand Hotel.

The Rev. J. K. Reid, of the Epsom Baptist Church, has accepted a call to the North-east Valley Church, JDunedin, where he is to commence his ministry next month. Mr. Reid has! served for 13 months at Epsom, which was his first charge.

Mr. W. A. Banks, of Ea.ngioi.-a, who bus completed 60 years' service to education in Canterbury, was congratulated this week: by his fellow-members of the Canterbury College Board of Governors. Mr. Banks is also a memben of the Canterbury Education Board and.the Lincoln College Board of Governors.