PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Consequent upon the retirement of Sergeant J. McAlister from the Parnell police station, Sergeant Ft. R. Millar, of Opotiki, has been appointed to take charge. Dr. H. G. Whitehead, bacteriologist at the Dairy Research Institute, Palmersfcm North, left Wellington by the Akaroa to represent New Zealand at the eleventh world dairy congress, to be held in Berlin in August. Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Clemesha, formerly of the Indian Medical Service, who intends to make his home in North Auckland, has arrived at. Auckland from Sydney. Colonel Clemesha was in charge of medical services in German East Africa during the Great, War, and recently was director of the malaria control scheme at Bandarawola, Ceylon. Passengers by East Const Airways' planes between Gisbornc and Napier yesterday included .Mesdaincs Leslie. Woodward, Kane, Watt, Pearson, Wilkinson, Tombleson, Prentice, Brown, Muir, McNeil, Mullooly, and Lay; Misses Prentice, Brown, Muir, McNeil and Mullooly; Messrs. Leslie. Gordon, Sheehan, Hay, Johnson, Wilkinson, Reynolds, Gillman and Goldsack.

Mr. C. J Tunks, M.U.L.. K.St.J., chairman of the Auckland branch of the St. John Ambulance Association and Auckland district commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Mr. K It. Langstono, S.B.St.J., secretarymanager of the association's Auckland centre, arrive in Gisborne this afternoon in connection with the advancement of the work of tlio association and the brigade in this district,