VARIED SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25343, 26 October 1945, Page 6

VARIED SERVICE

AMERICAN MINISTER

MR AVRA M. WARREN

The newly-appointed American Minister to New Zealand, Mr Avra M. Warren, has- previously served in several British countries. He was United States Consul at Karachi in 1922-23. Consul at Nairobi, Kenya Colony, in 1924-25, and in 1926 was appointed Consul at St. John's, Newfoundland. Mr Warren is in his 53rd year, tiki was born at Ilchester, Maryland. He was educated at Cantonsvdle High School and Johns Hopkins University, from which he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1915.

After engaging in forestry work in 191.5-16, Sir Warren served with the United States Army in 1917-19, and had overseas service as a second-lieutenant. He was employed by a grain export company in 1919-20.

Appointed a consul on Juno 4, 1920. Mr Warren's first assignment was to Cape Haitien. His service in India, Kenya and Newfoundland followed, and in 1900 he was sent to Buenos Aires. He was promoted to Consul-General in that city in 1935, and in the same year, after acting as adviser to the Pan American Commercial Conference in the Argentine, he was assigned to the State Department.

In 1936, he was appointed a foreign service inspector, and in 1938 he became chief of the visa division in the State Department. He held this appointment until March, 1942, when he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Dominican Republic. Two years later he was sent to Panama as Ambassador, and last January he returned to the State Department as Director of the Office of American Republics Affairs. He was adviser to the United States delegation at the American Republics Conference at Mexico last February, and served in the same capacity at the United Nations Conference at San Francisco. Mr "Warren is married and has one son and one daughter. PAHIATUA PUZZLE POPULATION AND HOUSES (0.C.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Thursday Pahiatua's new census figure is providing a puzzle when placed alongside the town's housing problem. The recent census has given the town a population of 1760, compared with 166< in 1936, an increase of 93, with somewhere about 100 service men and women having been repatriated. In 19.56 there were sufficient houses for the inhabitants, but since then 62 private dwellings have been erected and a further 28 State houses are pending. In round figures this means that a new house lias been erected for each additional member of Pahiatua's population In addition, to satisfy the demand for houses, an additional 40 are required. If the census figures are correct it can only mean that for the most part houses in Paliiatua today are housing fewer people than they did ten years ago. AGRICULTURE POST AUCKLAND APPOINTMENT (O.O.) WHANGAREI, Thursday Appointed Auckland district superintendent of the livestock division of the Department of Agriculture, Mr T. H. Hankin has been veterinary surgeon for the department in the Northland district for the past nine years. Before that he was in the department at Mastertoil and Wanganui. Horn in New Zealand, Mr Hankin was a cadet in the Customs Depart nient for a time, before going to the Melbourne Veterinary College. He was.influenced in this direction hy Dr ,T. A. Gilruth, who was chief veterinary surgeon in New Zealand, but left to take an appointment on the staff of the Melbourne college. Mr Hankin had just gained his Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree in Australia when the First World War broke out. He joined the Australian Imperial Forces and saw service throughout tlie war as a veterinary surgeon. After the war he studied at the Royal Veterinary College in Edinburgh, becoming a member of the Royal College of Veterinarv Surgeons. On returning to New Zealand he started in private practice, but about 18 years ago he joined the Government service.