PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr N. Pollock (Auckland) is registered at the Dominion.

Mr A. F. Cheyne (Mosgiel) is staying at the Grand.

Messrs F. G. Anderson (Dunedin) and T. Poll (Christchurch) are staying at the Empire. Mr W. H. Field announces that he is again contesting the Otaki seat at the General Election as a National Government candidate.

Messrs A. G. Brown (Geraldine), F. Robb (Wellington), N. E. Tingey, H. A. Gamble, D. C. Lister (Christchurch) and H. E. Clark (Dunedin) are staying at the Grosvenor.

The Hon. R. Masters, M.L.C.. actingNative Minister, announces the appointment of Messrs J. S. Jessep and J. N. Massey, M.P., as members of the Board of Native Affairs.

At the quarterly meeting of the executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which opened in Wellington yesterday, Mr M. Connelly, of Dunedin, was elected national vicepresident.

Messrs Alfred Coleman and Ralph Searle Chadwick were sworn-in us members of the Court of Review of Mortgagors’ Liabilities yesterday by Mr Justice Johnston. Judge of the Court.

Mr G. A. McNicoll, manager of the New Plymouth branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., for more than seven years, has received notice of his appointment as relieving manager in the bank service. The Governor-General-in-Council yesterday approved of the appointment of the four members of the Maori Purposes Board. They are the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Mr K. S. Williams, M.P., Mr Gilbert Archey (curator of the Auckland Museum) and Mr Johannes Andersen.

Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike. who has been at Napier for three years, has been transferred to Palmerston North. It Is announced that his place is being taken by Sergeant H. H. Nuttall, of the Napier uniform branch, who previously had 15 years’ service in the detective branch. Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike replaces Senior-Detective Quirke, who is to retire shortly. Sergeant Carmody, from Wellington, will fill the vacancy caused by Sergeant Nuttall’s transfer.

Captain M. A. Stedman, M.C., New Zealand Staff Corps, has been promoted to the rank of Major. He has relinquished his appointment as assistant Adjutant and QuartermasterGeneral, Southern Military Command, and has been appointed Staff Officer in charge of the No. 10 Regimental District a~d Brigade Major, 3rd New Zealand Infantry Brigade. Major W. I. 11. Jennings. D. 5.0., has been appointed to Major Stedman’s former position. Mr N. S. Falla, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Coy., Ltd., visited Dunedin during the week-end on business in connection with Union Airways, Ltd. He proposes to leave for England at the end of this month on important business in connection with the Union Steam Ship Coy., and will also, with the aid of expert advisers, purchase aeroplanes for the Palmerston North-Dunedin air transport service, a license for which was recently granted by the Transport Board. Mr J. G. Gibbs, son of Dr. H. E. Gibbs, of Wellington, who is a member of the staff of the Plant Research Station of the Agricultural Department at Palmerston North, has been awarded a Harkness Community Fellowship which entitles the holder to two years’ study ir the United States. There are many of these fellowships left by Mrs Harkness, wife of a railway magnate, and a number of them are awarded to civil servants of the British Empire. It is understood that Mrs Harkness, who was a Scottish lady, included the British Empire through her derive to see happy relations established between America and England.