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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19640, 7 November 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Acting-Lieutenant-Commander P. G. COnnolly, of Dunedin, has been granted the rank of lieutenant-commander in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Mr D. M. Robertson, general secretary of tha New Zealand Legion, and Dr. W. H. B. Bull, president of the Karori division, arrived in Auckland yesterday, and will hold a series of meetings in Auckland and surrounding districts. The Rev. F. A. Crawshaw, of Palmerston North, secretary of the New Zealand Auxiliary of the Mission for Lepers, is to leave New Zealand shortly before Christmas for Melbourne to take up his headquarters there as general secretary for the Australian auxiliary of the mission. Mr W. J. Girling, who was elected president of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association at the annual meeting of that body at Wellington last week, is a former champion oarsman, and is at present president of the Marlborough Rowing Association and the Blenheim Rowing Club. On the occasion of his retirement, Mr W. Megget, gold assayer at the Bank of New Zealand, was presented by the manager (Mr J. G. Dykes), on behalf of the staff, with an easy chair and a pipe as a token of their good wishes for the future. Mr Megget joined the bank in June, 1900, and was stationed at Dunedin throughout the period of his service, except for occasional relief duties at country branches. Regret in the resignation of the Right Rev. Dr. Sadlier as Bishop of Nelson, is expressed in the current issue of “The Church News,” which says that Dr. Sadlier’s resignation is a most regrettable loss to the New Zealand Episcopate. It is due o the continuance of his leg trouble. A considerable time ago he tripped over a simple obstruction in his garden, and the damage the fall did to his leg, trivial as it seemed at the time, has proved very difficult to remedy. Bishop Sadlier has made his episcopate memorable in many ways, and the beautiful new Cathedral, while the most obvious of his memorials, is but one of many blessings his pastoral care has brought to his Diocese. His influence has strengthened the Diocese spiritually and financially.