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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17769, 3 May 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr V. G. Roussel], general manager of railways, has 'been appointed honorary colonel in the New Zealand Military Forces.

Mr L. W. Hedge, supervisor of the Wiiakatane Post Office, has received notice of liis promotion to the position of inspector. His headquarters will be at Auckland.

Flight-Lieut. T. W. White, formerly instructor Of the Hawke’s Bay “ Aero Club, and a pilot in tho No. 4 (Army Cooperation) Squadron, has been promoted to the rank of Squadron-Leader and will be in command of that squadron. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician, lias been appointed Undersecretary of the Department- of Internal Affairs, in succession to Mr. P. J. Keilelier, who has retired on superannuation. The question of the appointment of a successor to Mr. Fraser in the Statistics Office lias not yet been considered.—Special. A large -congregation assembled sit St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin, on Sunday on flic occasion of tile'institul ion of the Rev. G. C. Cniickriliaiik, formerly vicar of SI. .Mark’s Church, Herriuern, as vicar of the Cathedral disI rid of Si. Paid, Dunedin, and a,s dean of (lie Cathedral.

The post-graduate or travelling scholarship in law litis been awarded by the University of Ntnv Zealand to Mr. R. G. McElroy, of the Auckland University College. Mr. McElroy proposes to leave in a. few months for England to pursue his studies in the law of contract and he will endeavor to spend two years at Cambridge. The post-graduate scholarship is* offered every two years by the University of New Zealand to the student in any of the four affiliated colleges who can show the best scholastic record throughout his whole course. The scholarship lias been available for law students since 1925, and, of the four scholarships awarded, one was gained by a student from Victoria College, Wellington, while the remaining three have gone to Auckland.