PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17745, 4 April 1932, Page 3

PERSONAL

Air. W. I). Bathgate, of the Edinburgh Medical Mission Hospital. Nazareth-, Palestine, leaves Auckland to-day for England by the Taranaki. Miss M. Colter, supervisor at tlm Hastings Telephone Exeiurnge. left Hastings; this week for a 12-moutbs' holiday trip lo the Old Country.

Tho. lit. lion. Sir Eram-is Bell celebrated his eighty-first birthday last Thursday. He was (lie. recipient of many congratulatory telegrams and messages.

Father -Murphy, of Gisborne, will leave Auckland 10-day hv the Taranaki on a 12 months’ visit to Ireland, England and the Continent.. Father Kermis lias arrived in Gisborne to assist Fathers McMahon and Dougherty during Father Murphy's absence Dr. ].. Cockayne, C.M.G., F. It-S., lias been appointed a member ol the Committee on Botanical Nomenclature of tho International Botanical Congress. fir. Cockayne’s advice is specially required on the nomenclature of hybrids and hybrid groups. Mr. H. D. Vickery’s appointment as chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board for a period of four years has been gazetted. Messrs. <L 11. Hutchinson and L, R- C. Macfa-rlane will bold office as members of the board Jor 1 hreo'years.

Mr. Alexander Hamilton, inspector of the National Bank ol New Zealand, Ltd., the senior officer in the bank's service, has retired alter a career of nearly half a century. 'As a token of esteem from the head office staff Mr. Hamilton was given a handsome oak bureau and chair.

Toward 1 he end of this month Wellington is to be visited bv a distinguished American—-Dr. Arthur H. Compton, winner of the Nobel Prize for 1927. and a physicist of note throughout the world. Dr. Comp:011 is milking a tour of Australia and New Zealand with the object of undertaking special research work lli.s scientific achievements include the discoverv 'it the change in the wavelength's of X-rays, and the total jrellociion and complete polarisation of X-rays. He made Hie first wavelength measurement of hard gamma- rays and has written extensively on the subject, of X-rays and electrons; More within _ the comprehension- of the average individual are Dr. Compton's religious interests. He is noted in the United States as a leading Christian layman, and is a member of the executive of the Laymen's .Mission Moverilent in that iiiuntrv.