PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. C. H. Rogers has relumed '. from a holiday trip io Wellington. Mr. G. A. r rter has returned from, j a trip lo Wei ..ton. Mr ■ i'ii .\;;- .*. C. Johnson left 1 !,., !>.:mi i.'.'iMi today on a holiday visit Mr C 11. Rogers, ju'nr., son of Mr. .c. n i..'.;ers, Stratford, 'has bernj .ij;.i.;!:!•"! assistant-Crown solicitor in \\ ,'■!!>! vu HU :,. Stratford Borough Council last u•; .'•:■ decided to recommend to the | Government that Mr. J. Cormick, edi- ! tor of the Stratford Evening Post, be ! appointed the council's representative I on the Stratford Hospital Board. The congratulations of the Strat- ! ford Borough Council are to be con- ! veyed to Hon. Robt. Masters on his ■ inclusion in the New Zealand delegation to England. At last night's meeting of the council the Mayor, Mr. J. W. McMillan, said that the conference was an important one and he considered it the duty of the council to extend its congratulations. Speaking in support Cr. R. F. Harkness said that it gave him great pleasure to do so in view of the fact that an honour had been conferred on Mr.; Masters whom, incidentally 'he had j known for many years, having spent j part of their boyhood together and having played football together. Lieut.-Commander R. F. Nichols, ) who has been transferred to the New | Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, j has arrived at Wellington to join 11.M.5. Dunedin at Auckland. Lieut.-1 Commander Nichols first joined | H.M.S. Vanguard as midshipman, | serving in May, 1917. For five months j in 1926 he served as assistant naviga- i tor in H.M.S. Royal Oak in the Atlantic Fleet, and for IS months from January, 3 926, he was navigator in H.M.S. Bluebell in China. During j 1929 he was- assistant navigator to | H.M.S. Hood (Atlantic Fleet) and assistant navigator to H.M.S. Queen \ Eliazbeth (Mediterranean Fleet).! From August, 1930. to February, 1933, j he served as navigator and first lieut.commander of H.M.S. Danae, on Am-1 crican and West Indies stations. j

The possibility that Captain Henry Taprell Dorling, better known as "Taffirail," author of many books and short stories, will come out to New Zealand and lecture, was indicated in a letter received at a recent meeting of the Wellington branch of the Navy League. Rear-Admiral G. O. Stephenson, general secretary of the Navy League in London, stated that Captain Dorling was to make a trip to the Dominion in the New Zealand Shipping Company's vessel Cornwall. The itinerary of the Cornwall had not been decided, but it was understood at the time of writing that she would arrive at Auckland on December 19, proceed thence to Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin. Bluff. Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth.' Nelson, Opua and Tokoniaru Bay, and leaving again about the middle of February. R<mrAdmiral Stephenson asked that lectures should be arranged in New Zealand. The subjects oti which Captain Dorling generally lectures are: "Some Sea Escapes: the Navy of Yesterday and Today, and "What of the Navy? The British Empire and the Limitation of Navies.''