PERSONAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 19

PERSONAL.

Ministerial. Sir Maui Pomare, M.P., who has been ill for several months, is making good progress toward recovery. It is hoped to be able to move him to Taupo toward the end of the month. Mr Duncan F. Bauchop, general manager in New Zealand for Leyland Motors, Ltd., has left Wellington on a business visit to England. Mr Bauchop will be absent for about five months. Fifty years’ service with the Australian Mutual Provident Society has been completed by Mr G. F. Francis, Auckland manager of the . society. Mr Francis has enjoyed a highly successful career since he joined the society on January 7, 1880. He climbed the ladder of promotion step by step until to-day he has charge of the largest district office in the Dominion. He started in Wellington, and after several years of study in the branches of higher mathematics he was offered, but did not accept, a position on the actuarial staff in Sydney. At the age of 21 he was appointed manager in Oamaru, and, subsequently, had charge of the offices in Wanganui and Christchurch before going to Auckland. Miss Joan Wood has been advised that she has been appointed sole teacher at Hamilton Burns School. Sir George Clifford, who has been a patient in the Lewisham Hospital in Christchurch for some months, has experienced a considerable improvement in his health and has returned to his home at the Cashmere Hills. Mr Niki Paewai, of Tahoraite, a member of the well-known Rugby family, who returned some months ago from Utah, United States of America, where he obtained the degree of B.Sc. in agriculture. recently received advice from the New Zealand Agricultural Department that he had been appointed fields instructor amongst the Natives of North Auckland.

The appointment of Mr A. W. Newton as Consul for Norway at Wellington is announced in last week's Gazette. Out of 10 applications from all over New Zealand. Miss J. A. Wright, assistant matron at the Southland Hospital, has been appointed matron of the Buller Hospital in succession to Matron Dunsford. who i-i retiring. From nine applicants Captain G. Lomax Stedman, N.Z.A.F., has been appointed pilot instructor to the Wellington Aero Club. A cable message from London states that the Geological Society has awarded the Lyell medal to Mr F. Chapman, lecturer in palaeonotology at Melbourne University. Mr A. D. M’Leod. formerly Minister of Lands, who is suffering from indisposition, has gone to Hamner Springs, where he will spend some time. A cable message from London states that Lord Bledisloe. the Governor-General-designate of New Zealand, has been created G.C.M.G. Mr Robert Cleary, brother of the late Bishop Cleary, and his nephew, Mr John Cleary, of Melbourne, have just completed a tour of the Waikato and Rotorua districts. The visitors are sailing on January 17 by the Marama for Sydney.