PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 3

PERSONAL

The King of Spain left Madrid yesterday en route lo London. —British Official wireless.

Mrs. E. J. Smith will represent the Gisborne blanch of the New Zealand Forestry League at the conference and annual meeting of the league in Wellington on June 29. The following Legislative Councillors were re-appointed to-day: Sir F. Mitchelson, and Messrs. F.'. H. Clark, M. Cohen, W. F.arnshaw, K. Scott, and .1. li. Smith.—P.A.

Mr. T. S: Thomas, deputy Chief Secretary lor India, has been appointed Colonial Secretary of the Cold Coast, in succession to Sir .'lames Maxwell, recently appointed Governor of Northern Rhodesia.—British Clfficinl Wireless. Mr L. K. Adams, of the Gisborne High School staff, has received notice of his appointment, to a position at Wellington College. Miss Mitchell has been appointed to a C grade position at the Gisborne High School. Mr. P. A. Denton, of Denton estate, Morere, who has held the office of assistanl clerk to the Waiapu Couniy Council at Waipiro Bay for some months, has left the Coast, and is spending a few days in Gisborne before proceeding to Wellington. Dr. F. G. Clapp, B.Sc, F.G.S.A., a, leading American oil geologist, who recently investigated the possibilities of oil production in West Australia and New South Wales, and later acted as geologist in chief to Taranaki Oilfields. Ltd., spending some time in this district, has been appointed oil adviser to the Persian Government.

The. Auckland Zionist Society has received advice by,cable from Dr. Alexander Goldstein", who is at present in Australia, that he will be leaving for New Zealand at the eud of this month and will open his Dominion campaign in Auckland on July b. Dr. Goldstein, who is a member of the General Council ol* the Zionist Organisation, left Jerusalem in January as an envoy to the Jewish communities in India, the Far Fast, the Dutch Indies, Australia and New Zealand. He is one of the leading figures of the world-wide movement for the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.