PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr W. Downie Stewart travelled to Temuka yesterday. ; Mr W. B. Taverner left for Christchurch by the through'-express yesterday. ""* ..." ".,,*"" ™ "« *"~ L«~

The appointment of Mi - W. R. Olliver as manufacturers' representative on the Tobacco Board.was gazetted last night.

News has been received by Mrs L. M. Kingston, through the Vatican radio, that her son. Allan R. Kingston, is a prisoner of war in Italy. .','.. .. Professor J. Rahkine Brown, ~p'ro~ fessor of classics at Victoria College; left on his return to Wellington yesterday. Trooper S. C. Vercoe, of Roxburgh, will leave on his return to a North Island military camp to-day after a period of sick leave." Advice has been received that Leading Aircraftman Edgar Brockbank, of 19 Can- street, North-East Valley, has arrived safely at his destination in. Canada.

Captain R. Morrison and Captain L. D. Hastie. who recently returned from the Middle East, will proceed to Wellington at the week-end to take over appointments at Army Headquarters. Mrs Geary, of Mosgiei, has received word from her son. Driver Frank; Geary, stating that he is a prisoner of war in Germany. Ke was previously reported missing.

At the monthly meeting of the Otago Hospital Board last night, Dr Marshall M. Gowland, of Warwickshire, England, was appointed to the position of resident surgical officer at Dunedin Hospital. Advice has been received that Private Leslie A. Henderson, son of Mr J. A. Henderson, of 693 Cumberland street, and Private J. F. Lyon and Corporal S. G. Truesdale, who were previously posted as missing, are prisoners of war.

The Gazette issued last night announced the granting of two honorary commissions in the administrative and special duties' branch of the R.N.Z.A.F. The appointments are those of Mr E. Caradus as Wing Commander and Mr J. L. Hunter as squadron leader. The Rev. John Craig, M.A., 8.D., Ph.D., who, for the last seven years, has been minister of the Munro Memorial Presbyterian Church, Quirindi, New South Wales, will be inducted into St. Andrew's Church, Grafton, New South Wales, on February 19. Grafton is one of the most beautiful and prosperous cities in the Commonwealth. Dr Craig is a nephew of Lady le Fleming, of Dunedin. Information has bean received through the radio service of Vatican City that the following are prisoners of war:—Lieutenant Robert Williams, 15 St. Helier's Court, Caversham, Dunedin; Corpora] Edmund Wright, 36 '. Signal Hill road, Opoho; Corporal Robert Williams, 69 Ellis road. Invercargill; Private Jack F. Lyon, 401 South road, Caversham; Frivate William White, Wright's Bush, Southland; Private Gordon Williams. 69 Ellis road. Invercargill. Passengers bv =-ir for the north yesterday were:—Mr R. Robinson, Mr A. J. Pascoe, Mr J. Barnett for Christchurch; Miss D. M. McLeod, Mr A. L. Haddon, Miss G. Flamank for Wellington, and Mr F. R. Nennett, for Auckland. Passengers from the north were Miss J. McKenzie and Mr G. R. Ritchie, from Wellington; Mr A. Cunningham, Mr *R. S. Stewart and Mr B. C. Orchard, from Christchurch.