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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. H. Duncan, manager at Auckland for the Sun Insurance Company, Limited, is paying a business visit to Gisborne, Miss D. Cameron, Gisborne, has been appointed to the Takapau School staff. She succeeds Miss T. Hussey, who has been transferred to Napier. Mr. W. H. Bradley has been appointed a member of the Uawa Domain Board in succession to the late Mr. Henry P. deMontalk. The Gisborne Rotary Club yesterday welcomed Mr. R. P. Baigent, man-aging-secretary of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board, to active membership in the organisation. Miss B. Hartnell, organising secretary for the central area of the North Island for the British and Foreign Bible Society, is paying her initial visit to the Gisborne district. The Cole Construction Company, Limited, is, represented.in Gisborne by Mr. Noel Cole, managing director, who is interested in the prospects of the Cook Hospital extensions, for which tenders are being called. Miss Phyllis McGhie has received advice that she has passed her examination in rudiments and harmony. Since she was successful in her practical examination, Miss McGhie is now an associate of Trinity College, London, and is entitled to the letters A.T.C.L. Passengers by East Coast Airways' planes between Gisborne and Napier yesterday included Mesdames M. Brown and B. Cook; Misses T. Gunn and E. Brown; Messrs. D. Fraser, H. Morice, W. Neil, K. Smith, J. Dodson, J. Sheppard, Toxwood, H. Hardwood, G. Wilson, and Master T. Sheppard. The post of manager to the Australian Mutual Provident Society at Gisborne, from which Mr. E. A. Carrington is being transferred on promotion to Palmerston North, is to be filled by Mr. H. W. P. Buckley, who arrived in Gisborne last evening. Mr. Buckley has been chief clerk of the Auckland office for some time, and Gisborne will be his first managership. He was accompanied to Gisborne by Mrs. Buckley. Advice has been received in Gisborne that the transfer of Constable A. J. Gaston from Auckland to Gisborne has been cancelled and that Constable N. S. Milligan will take the former's place now as one of the recent additions to the strength of the force. Constable Milligan has' had 13J years' service and is at present "attached to the Newton station in Auckland.