PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 3

PERSONAL

Captain A. W. Hogg, 0.8. E., M. 8., of the New Zealand Medical Corps, has been posted to the retired list with the sank of lieutenant-colonel. Mr. R. R. Meuzies, for many years senior road engineer oi the Public Works Department for North Auckland, will retire on superannuation at the end of this year after 40 years’ service. A Gazette notice announces that Mr. G. W. 'Langhorne, of Gisborne, is to be appointed second lieutenant, on probation, and is posted to the 2nd. Cadet Battalion,, Hawke ? s Bay Regiment. Mr. C. E, Sligo, formerly of New Zealand, who was editor of the Brisbane Daily Mail for 11 years, until its merger with the Courier, has joined the literary staff of the Sydney Morning Herald. Mr. H. G. Littlejohn, who has been, engineer to the Public Works Department at Masterton during the past years, has been transferred to .Wham garei. His succsssor at Masterton will be Mr. C. Langoein, late of Tawa Flat. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kalaugher have left Auckland for Sydney on their return to England. Mr. Kalaugher, who was 1927 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, is now a member of the teaching 'staff of Marlborough College, England. What may bo regarded as the crowning effort of a brilliant scholastic career by the son of a well-known. Dunedin resident has been achieved by Mr Harold Me. Taylor, son of Mr. James Taylor, who has had tho degree of Ph.D., Cambridge, conferred on him. Two Gisborne candidates, A. N. Beattie and C. C. Brodie, sat for the practical part of the annual examination under the Electrical Wircmen’s Registration Act, held in September, . and both wove successful. There were three candidates for the written part of the examination, and one, J. H. Badham, was successful. Major C. 11. Douglas, founder of the credit scheme bearing Iris name, will arrive in New Zealand on' January 30. He will attend a conference of Dominion delegates being held at Palmerston North during the first week of February, and later will undertake a lecture" tour of New Zealand. The Marquis of Tavistock will possibly accompany him.