PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18335, 1 March 1934, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. E. L. Walton. S.M., left Gisborne to-day for Opotiki, where he will preside over the monthly sitting of the Magistrate's Court to-morrow. Mr. Walton will return to Gisborne on Saturday.

Di'. Guy 0. Shirpy, lately medical officer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, who recently returned to New Zealand on account of ill-health, left Wellington on Tuesday as a passenger in the Norwegian motor-tanker O. A. Knudsen, for San Pedro. California.

Dr. 11. A. Archer, who was a member of the Anglo-Welsh Rugby football team which came to New Zealand in ISOB, visited Wellington in the Franconia. Dr. Archer played in all three tests on the tour, and also represented England in three matches in the following year,

Changes in the staff of the Bank of New South Wales, which have been pending for some time, have now been finally decided. Mr. A. 11. B. Jones, manager of the Christchurch branch ol the hank, is to be transferred to Wellington as assistant inspector for the New Zealand division of the bank. Mr. J. E. Astill, lately of the head office at Sydney and at present assisting the inspector of the New Zealand division, will succeed Mr. Jones at Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Sefton and family, who have returned to this district to take up residence at Te Kanaka, where Mr. Sefton will lake over the Rangatira Hotel, were the guests of honor at farewell functions held in Cambridge prior to their departure from that town last Saturday. On Thursday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. .Sefton were farewelled by the scholars and staff of the Cambridge primary school, of which Mr. Sefton nad been headmaster, and later they were entertained at afternoon tea, when, on behalf of the children and the staff, Mr. and Mrs. Sefton were presented with a suitcase and a handbag respectively.

Mr, A. M. Hamilton, a distinguished old boy of the Waitaki High School, who has been engineer-in-charge of the construction of the Rowanduz road, in Irak, paid a visit to his Alma Mater, when he delivered an address to the boys on the work of this road. Mr. Hamilton, who is a bachelor of engineering of Canterbury College, is at present on a short holiday in New Zealand. He earned high distinction as a civil engineer in Persia, and also Won great credit for his feat in the construction of the dilllcult road in Irak. On one occasion iic was specially entertained by the Royal Empire Society of London. Prior to his undertaking a course of special study under the provisions of his recent scholarship success, Dr. Garth Stoneham is spending three weeks’ holiday in Gisborne with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Stoneham, Domett street. Dr. Stoneham will leave Auckland on March 22 for Melbourne, where for six months he will engage in research work at tlie Women’s Hospital. Later he will leave for London, where lie will report to the scholarship authorities and will receive an appointment at an institution furnishing facilities for further research. His many friends in Gisborne will tender him their best, wishes for continued success in his medical career, which has commenced under such favorable auspices.

Mr. G. W. Ingram, a member of Die staff of the Gisborne Publishing Company for several years, is severing his connection with the company to take up a position as insurance agent with the Australian T. and G. Company. Last evening members of the staff of the Gisborne Times assembled to bid farewell to Mr. Ingram, and on their behalf the managing editor, Mr. J. A. Mac.kay, presented Mr. Ingram with a handsome leather wallet, suitably inscribed. Mr, Mackny referred to the good feeling which had existed between Mr. Ingram and his fellow members of the staff, and his popularity with the business people of the town, and wished him every success in Jus new sphere. The recipient suitably responded.