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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25427, 7 January 1944, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr A. E. Davenport, resident electrical engineer of the Works Department, Greymouth, has received advice of his transfer on promotion to the position of district electrical engineer, Auckland. Mr Davenport will be replaced at Greymouth by Mr E. E. James, of Christchurch. Mr and Mrs H. F. McKenzie, of 5 Brook street, have received advice that their son, Second Lieutenant Colin Maxwell Mackenzie, has been wounded in Italy. Advice has been received that R. W. and A. J. Millis, sons of Mr and Mrs J. H. Millis, of Dalmore. have both received their commissions in the Middle East. Passengers who left for the north by the airliner yesterday were: Mr K. L. Freeman, Mr K. A. Falconer, Mrs M. and Miss I. Ashton, Mr G. Speden, Mr R. W. Williams, and Miss D. Stewart for Wellington, Mrs A. R. Lilly, Mr H. C. Gordon, and Mrs A. E. Cumming for Auckland. Passengers who arrived by the afternoon plane were: Mr H. Virtue, Mr A. Daislev, Mr and Mrs S. Sherriffs, and Miss E. Greer from Auckland, Mrs T. Reed, Miss J. Mack, Mr J. D. Haigh, and Mr A. W. Tucker from Wellington. The Union Steam Ship Company has received cabled advice from London that Captain W. W. Hender has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (0.8. E.) for meritorious sea service. Since the beginning of the war Captain Hender has been In charge of a foreign-going ship running under the company’s auspices in various parts of -the world under requisition to the British Minister of War Transport. He was born at Stafford, England, on November 27, 1879. and went to sea in sail as a youth of 15. Ten years later he joined the service of the Union Steam Ship Company as second officer, receiving his first appointment as master in 1912. Since that date he has commanded some 23 ships of the company, and is well known in New Zealand, though it is a few years since he Visited this country.