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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19641, 8 November 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Marquis of Tavistock, president of the British Douglas social credit movement, is expected to visit New Zealand next year. Rev. H. Knowles Kempton, minister of the Avondale Baptist Church, is retiring from active ministry at the end of the year. Mr S. E. Thornton, managing inspector for the Commercial Union Assurance Co., at New Plymouth, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to Wellington. Mr A. G. Bell, managing inspector at Hamilton, will succeed him. Dr. A. M. Meldrum, formerly of the University of Spokane, United States, was a through passenger by the Monterey on his way to New Guinea. He hopes to penetrate to the headwaters of the Sepik River to conduct work in the interests of the Field Museum, Chicago.

Mr R. Cole, who has been on the commercial staff of “The Timaru Herald” Company for the last few years, has been appointed to the staff of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., Timaru. Mr Cole will take up his new duties towards the end of the month. Before his departure to take up a position in the booking office at the Thorndon (Wellington) railway station, Mr J. F. D. Carroll, who has been assistant stationmaster at Te Awamutu for five years, was presented with a beautiful beaten copper firescreen ae a reminder of pleasant associations in Te Awamutu.