PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22515, 4 September 1936, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

. • «. Mr. A. H. Cockayne, Director-G&n. eral of Agriculture, left Haxniiton W evening fo:r Wellington - Mr. A. G. Holland has been 11to the Rotorua High School a parents' representative.

Captain W. H. Hartman hag Wp elected chairman of the Wellington branch of the Navy League in sukJ 1 sion to Mr. A. Walker. " ""

Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, of Invercaral] who has been studying at Melbourne' London, and Vienna hospitals, is on hjl way back to New Zealand.,

The Rev. W. M. Jsitt, who fov flip past five months has been minister at Moray Place Congregational Church, Dunedin, has left to return to Hendon England.

Mr. W. B. Gillespie, of the teaching! staff of the Auckland Grammar School 4 has returned to Auckland after an ej, tensive tour of Great Britain, South Africa and India.

Mr. J. L. Griffin and Mr. .W. can, of the Fuller-Hay ward Theatre Corporation, Limited, arrived from I' Wellington yesterday rooming and are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. T. 0. Bishop, secretary of tjfo New Zealand Employers' Federation, Wellington, returned to Auckland tcrday after making a brief visit to Huntly. He is at the Hotel Cargenr

Sir Carrick Robertson left Auckland bv the limited express last Wellington, where to-day he will attend a meeting of the New Zealand! Council of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. ' - V.J 4 .:

Professor «T. Shelley, who has been appointed Director of Broadcasting, « to be released from his duties at Canterbury University College as from November 30. His resignation from the chair of education • was accepted with regret by the college council at a meeting this week. Mr. R. F. A. Gray, of Wellington, formerly associate to Mr. Justice Smith, is visiting Auckland and will leave today by the Port Hunter for England, He will undergo a year's training course at Cambridge University preparatory to - taking up his appointment in the colonial administrative service in Nigeria.

Dr. F. W. G. White, for the pasi three years part-time lecturer at the London Poly technic, is to be offered the chair of physics at> Canterbury Univer-. sity College in succession to Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, who has retired. Failing acceptance by Dr. White, the college council has decided to offer ths position to Dr. R. G. J. the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Cambridge.

Mr. Geoffrey Townley Cuthbert, engineer to the Poverty Bay Elssri<> Power Board, has been appointed;. deputy-Inspector to the State Electricity Commission of V ictoria, says-» Press* Association message from Gisborne. Mr. Cuthbert has been with the Poverty Bay board for three years, and formerly was in the Public Department, Wellington. He was bora in Gisboirne. " \ \