PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24412, 23 October 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Stanley S. Scott returned from Wellington yesterday. Professor C. R. Knight returned from the south yesterday. Mr. G. L. Laurenson, Commissioner of Transport, returned to Wellington last night. Mr. James Fletcher, commissioner of , defence construction, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr. W. L. Wilson, superintendent of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Brigade, left for Wellington yesterday. Mr. P. H. Macdonald has retired from the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, Limited, after 41 years at sea in its vessels. Since 1911 he has been chief engineer of "28 of them.

Dr H. C. Barrett, resident Surgeon at the New Plymouth Hospital, has been appointed acting-superintendent following the resignation of Dr. C. A. Taylor, who is now director of the new tuberculosis division of the Health Department. MILITARY POSTS NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday Military appointments gazetted tonight include the following:— Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Burrows, Southern Infantry, is appointed to command a battalion. Major D. J. Fountaine, Southern Infantry, is appointed second-in-com-niand of a battalion.

Major C. Langbein, New Zealand En- . gineers, is appointed to command anengineer and ordnance training depot. Major H. G. Burton, Central Infantry, is appointed to command a battalion temporarily and is granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. Second-Lieutenant P. R. Freyberg relinquished his commission in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force on being appointed to a commission in the Grenadier Guards. PROMOTIONS OVERSEAS AIR FORCE AND NAVY Advice that their son, Sergeant Pilot Andrew Kronfeld, aged 24, has been promoted to the rank of pilot officer, has been received by Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Kronfeld, of Brown's Bay. Pilot Officer Kronfeld is at present serving with a fighter unit in India. Born in Auckland, he was educated at the Mount Albert Grammar School, where he took a prominent part in Rugby football, swimming and athletics. He later played Rugby for the Ponsonby senior t-eam and at the time of his enlistment in 1910 was a member of the Richmond senior League team. Leaving New Zealand in February, 1941, Pilot Officer Kronfeld trained in Canada, later being transferred to the New Zealand fighter squadron. He was recently posted to India. Mrs. E. A. Cox. of Hamilton, has received advice that her son. SubLieutenant Bernard E. F. Cox, hag been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Lieutenant Cox has also been recommended for a decoration. OBITUARY MR. W. P. GAUVAIN Advice has been received bycablegram of the death in England of Mr. W. P. Gauvain, formerlv well known in ; New Zealand as an electrical engineer, j Mr. Gauvain, who was 65 at the time i of his death, was at one time assistantI superintendent of the' Waihi Gold Mining Company, Limited, and engineer in charge of the construction and operation of the company's hydro-electric plant at Horahora, now owned and operated by the Government. Later he* took up practice as a consultant in partnership with Mr. N. G. McLeod, and was technical adviser on reticulation to the Thames Vallev and Waitemata Electric-Power Boards before his departure for England in 1927. Mr. Gauvain was a director of tha Martha Gold Mining Company (Waihi), Limited, and Waihi Investments and Exploration, Limited. He is survived bv his wife and two sons residing in England. MR. J. A. MAISEY (0.C.) HAMILTON. Thursday The death has occurred of Mr. John Arthur Maisey, of Koromatua, aped 82. Mr. Maisey was born in Birmingham and came to New Zealand in 1884. Ho was in practice as an architect in Auckland, New Plymouth, Sydney and_ Wellington, and he took up farming in the Waikato in 1908. He is survived by three sons and five daughters. Mrs. Maisey died three years ago.

BISHOP OF MELANESIA The Bishop of Melanesia, the Rt. Rev. W. H. Baddeley, and members of the mission staff on the island of Malaits in the Solomons, were safe at the time of recent advices received in Christchurch by Archbishop West-Watson. BAPTIST ASSEMBLY (0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday The youth rally connected with the diamond jubilee of the Baptist Assembljj which is at present being held in Christchurch, was held in the Oxford Terrace Church. The chief speakers were the Rev. A. Finlay, C.F., and the Rev. P. L. A. Crampton, 8.A., who was commissioned as the first Baptist youth director in New Zealand. In his address, Mr. Crampton said that the Church recognised its responsibility to the present generation and the new venture was an indication of the spirit at the heart of the work. The annual meetings of the missionary societies were also held in the Oxford Terrace Church, when the record sum of £5239 was received rs the result of the year's self-denial appeal. Dr. J. J. North, of Auckland, was appointed editor of the New Zealand Baptist. The representatives of the union on the Bible-in-Schools League were elected as follows: —The Rev. G. T. Beilby and Miss F. E. Kershaw, of Wellington, the Revs. Boulton Smith and Roland Hart and Mr. H. T. Falla. of Canterbury. THE SECOND N.Z.E.F. The Auckland branch of the Second N.Z.E.F. Association elected the following officers at its annual meeting:— President, Mr. R. Haugh;' vice-presi-dents, Major G. Poole, Major Hartley Wilson and Lieutenant J. W. Monaghan (Navy); committee, Messrs. N. Beattie, F. Bilkie, J. Keyworth, Harris, G. Morris, G. McDougall, McLaren. T. Nixon and G. Ross; next-of-kin representatives, Messrs. H. J. Preston, F. V. Home and H. Fausett.