PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. P. Versdiaffelt, of .tthe Land and Deeds and Stamp Duties Department at Napier, completed his master of laws degree with honours at the recent university examinations. Dr. Bruce Grieve has left Hastings en route to Melbourne, where he is taking up special studies in connection with the obstetrical' scholarship which was awarded him for 1938. Mr. Robert Crawford, Massey College, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Crawford, Torran station, Hastings, has been awarded a New Zealand Veterinary Scholarship. This includes a fouryear course at Sydney University. Congratulations on attaining her eighty-third birthday were extended to Mrs. J. E. Newton by the Cook County Women's Guild at last week's meeting. Mrs. Newton is a life-mem-ber of the guild. Chief Judge R. N. Jones and Judge J. Hairvey, of the Native Land Court bench, sat as an Appellate Court in Gisborne to-day. A sitting has been arranged to deal with Coast appeals in Ruatoria on Thursday and Friday, and the judges will return to Gisborne for the week-end, later proceeding to their respective court appointments elsewhere. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. C. Boyes left Wairoa yesterday for Wellington to connect with the Port Darwin for England. Mr. A. S. Telfer, first assistant in the primary department, will act as headmaster of the Wairoa District High School during the absence of Mr. Boyes. Miss Joan Deighton has been appointed a relieving teacher. —Special. Two additional officers were appointed at a recent meeting of the local "Diggers'" Choir. Mr. G. Crawshaw was elected a vice-presi-dent in recognition of his services to the musical side of R.S.A. activi- I ties, while Mr. H. Bacon was elected to a similar post for his work as leader of the tenbr section of the choir. It was decided also to draw ■up a constitution and a set of rules for the organisation. Dr. Merton Hodge, the New Zealand playwright, has returned to London, where he discussed with Virginia Vernon the translation into French of his adaptation of Olive Schrienier's "The Story of an African Farm," which recently had a short run in London. The play may be produced in Paris at L'Theatre des Arts shortly by M. Andre Moreau, who produced "The Wind and (the Rain" at the same theatre last year. Lord ißunciman, of Doxford, Lord President of the Council, who has been suffering from the after-effects of an attack of influenza, was medically advised to take a short period of complete rest, so, with the Prime Minister's concurrence, he decided upon a sea voyage. Lord and Lady Runciman left London on February 16 by the Strathnaver On a round that will include a short stay in New Zealand. Mr. J. P. Mahon, who has been appointed postmaster in Waipukurau. was well known on the East Coast some years ago, having been in charge of the Ruatoria office before his transfer to Woodville in 1930. He is to have the unusual experience of returning to an office where he was in charge 20 years ago, for Mr. Mahon was postmaster in Waipukurau when that branch of the Post and Telegraph Department was a small one, with a staff limited to two ' or three men. The staff now comprises 30 men and women, and the office is one of the most important in the Hawke's Bay area.