PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19695, 29 July 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL

Colonel C. B. Brereton has been elected president of the Nelson Returned Soldiers' Association. The retiring president, Mr. C. R. Duke, did not seek re-election.

Archdeacon A. T. Robinson, archdeacon of Mitchell, Queensland, has arrived at Auckland from London. He has been on a holiday visit to England. Mr. A. Chenerv, Government meat inspector, has received notice of his transfer from Wanganui to Waitara on promotion. He has been a resident of Wanganui for 17 years. Mr. Minden Blake, who left Christchurch about 18 months ago to take up a commission in the Royal Air Force, has been promoted to the rank of flight-lieutenant. Adjutant K. Mortimer, a Salvation Army medical missionary in Rhodesia has .arrived at Wellington from Christchurch, en route to England, where he will continue his medical studies before returning to Rhodesia. Dr. A. G. S. Cooper, Sydney, lias accepted the position of radiologist at the New Plymouth Hospital. He is at present in London, but will take up his appointment towards the end of October.

Mr. K. Hannah, who has been manager of the Monavale factory for the past 11 years, has accepted a position with the Government as dairy .inspector in the Whakatane district. Mr, A. H. Larkman, who, for the last 15 years has had charge of the engineering department of the Hawera Technical High School, lias been appointed to take charge of 'i.e similar department of the Wanganui Technical College. Mr. T. W. .Sewell. Patutahi, is ; n Hamilton attending the annual meet'ug of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig 'Marketing Association as the Gisborne delegate. Messrs. M. P. Hills and L. C. Wagner, Ngatapa, also went vo Hamilton to attend the meeting. A distinguished missionary in India, Dr. Stanley Jones, who is attending a pending conference in Melbourne, will later pass through Auckland on his return to the United States. He is well-known as the 'author of “Christ on the Indian Road" and other books.

Mr. J. F. Oakley, of the Valuation Department, Hastings, has received advice of his appointment as district valuer at Hastings in succession to Mr. G. H. Lloyd, who recently retired from the department on superannuation.

It was decided at the annual meeting of the Wairoa Bowling Club this Week to forward a letter to Mr. J. W. B. MacDonald thanking him for his past services to the club as sole selector. It was understood that Mr. MacDonald was not seeking re-elec-tion this year.—Special. In view of his interest in the club and work on behalf of the welfare of its members, Mr. William Stuckey was elected a life member of the Poverty Bay Bowling Club last evening. For some years Mr. Stuckey has supervised the catering arrangements at the green.

The appointment of Canon D. B. Malcolm, of Hawera, as secretary of the Church of England centenary appeal fund, left the parish of Hawera without a priest. The charge is to be filled for two years by the Rev, G. B. Stote-Blandy, who arrived at Wellington with Mrs. Stote-Blandy from England by the Tainui. Mr. Lester Moller, who left Dunedin in 1935, for Oxford, as the holder of a Rhodes Scholarship, will leave London for Dunedin on July 30. While at Oxford Mr. Moller obtained his degree of 8.C.L., a noteworthy achievement, as the examination for Bachelor of Civil Laws is one of the most difficult. The members of the Public Service Appeal Board, which completes its sitting in Gisborne to-day compnse, Mr. W. F. Stillwell, S.M., chairman, Mr. J. H. Jerram, general manager of the State Fire Insurance Office, Wellington, and Mr, A. E. Reynolds, clerk of the Magistrate's Court, Wellington. Accompanying the board are Mr. G. Bolt, secretary of the Public Service Commissioner’s office, Mr. J. Engel, inspector, Public Service Commissioner’s office, and Mr. F. W. Millar, general secretary of the New Zealand Public Service Association, who is the advocate for the appellants. It was announced at last evening's meeting of the Poverty Bay Bowling Club that Mr. D. G. Robertson, who had represented the club on the Gisborne-East Cbast Bowling Centre and for many years had occupied the post of secretary of the centre, had declined nomination as a delegate this year. The announcement was received with much regret by members of the club. At the instance of Mr. Somervell, it was decided to place on record Mr. Robertson’s splendid services. Mr. Somervell stated that Mr. Robertson had had the distinction of being the first member of the Poverty Bay club to be elected to the presidency of the centre, and he had worked hard in the interests of the game. Several other members eulogised Mr. Robertson’s past services, and it was pointed out that his refusal of nomination as delegate might not preclude Mr. Robertson acting as secretary of the centre.