PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. G. McElney, Rotorua, is visit mg relatives jn Gisborne.

Mrs. Miller and Miss 1U Barnes, Rotorua, are visiting Gisborne.

Mr. J. S. Hunter, Commissioner of Transport, will be in Gisborne on Wednesday. and experts to leave again the following day. Mr. J. Roger, formerly meat inspector at the Haiti free/.iiifi works, is now on the staff of the Gisborne abattoirs in the place of Mr. W. .). Dunlop, who retired recently from the position of inspector.

The Rev. X. R. Wood, who has been minister of the Lin wood Baptist Church for nearly four years, has .accepted a call to tho I’etone Baptist Church.

Mr. Guv Seymour Godden, assistant manager of the Union Bank of .Australia. is retiring alter 45 years' service with the bank, writes a Ibondon correspondent. Mr. (Sodden has spent all his career with the hank in London. The Rev. C. 11. Shave, who was senior padre of the Southern Command in Hugland during the'Great War. ami who knew a great number of New Zealand soldiers by his visit’s to camps and hospitals, is at present touring tin 1 Dominion.

Mr A. L. Bnuingnrt, who for many years lias been manager of tho Hastings branch of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers'’ Federation, has resigned from that office and his place is to be taken by Mr G. CL Wilkinson, the Christchurch branch manager. Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., loft Gisborne to-ctay on the monthly circuit of Magistrate’s Courts in tlie Bay of Plenty. Mr. Walton will preside over sittings of the court at Opotiki to-morrow, Wnakatnne on Wednesday, and Tauranga on Thursday, ’after which he will return to Gisborne.

The Rev. E. O. Blnmires, of the Redding Methodist Church, and formerly ot Mastertoh, lias been appointed organiser for New Zealand for the Bihle-in-Scliools League and will take over the duties early next year. The appointment will mean that. Air. Blamires will require to resign from his Foilding charge and he will reside in Wellington.

Another candidate who was successful in the terms examinations at the Otago University was Miss Nancy Appleton, daughter of Mr. J. G. Appleton, Te Raraka, Miss Appleton, an ex-student of Te Karaka District High School, secured third class passes in intermediate inorganic and organic chemistry and physics.

Canon A. F. Hall, accompanied by Air. Wilfrid Ivohn, organist and choirmaster of Holy Trinity Church, left this morning for Napier, where they will be guests at “Bisnopscourt” in order to have an opportunity of meeting Dr. Sydney 11. Nicholson, late organist, and master of choristers. Westminster Abbey, and founder and director of St. Nicholas’ College of Church Music. Air. Stanley G. White, of Havelock North, Hawke’s Bav, who has completed a solo flight from England to Sydney in a Gipsy Moth plane, is the second son of Airs. White and the la'.e Mr. .1. W. White, lie is 23 years of age. Mr. White was educated :it ITorotaiinga (now Horeworth) School and the Hastings High School, and. prior to "departure in, December, 1932. to join the BritishRoyal Air Force, was a member of the Hawke’s Bav and East Coast Aero Club.

Mr. Alec Wilson, who has boon more than 30' years in tlie theatrical business in Australia ami New Zealand, has resigned his position ’with tlie .1. C. Williamson firm. He began his career as a call hoy, and rose successfully to tlie positions of prompter, assistant- stage manager and stage managei). In the last capacity ho was for several years with .Infills Knight and Aland .lefleries. Later ho joined the managerial staff ot the company, where lie remained for 25 years, the last eight and a-hall years having been spent in New Zealand. Mr. Wilson states that fie lias many regrets at leaving New Zealand, but that, continued work during" tlie last 10 years had made it necessary that he should take a rest. Ije will return shortly to Melbourne with the Dubnrry Company.