PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20612, 29 December 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr W. L. Mauger, senior superintendent of police at Delhi, India, is spending a holiday in New Zealand.

Mr R. F. Pellew, who has been attached to the Gore staff of the Union Bank of Australia for a number of years, has received word of his transfer to Waimate.

Mr L. H. Honeyfleld, of the staff of the New Plymouth Post Office, will go on leave this week before retiring on superannuation after 43 years’ service. Mr W. Johnston, District Land Registrar at Auckland, is retiring after nearly 45 years’ service with the Department. Mr N. Gardiner, of the New Plymouth staff of the Valuation Department, has received notice of transfer to the State Advances Corporation, Whangarel. Mr P. McSkimming, of Balclutha, has accepted an Invitation to join the board of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company Ltd. The Rev. G. W. Gibb, general director of the China Inland Mission, is visiting Auckland. He will shortly make a tour of the Dominion, visiting the four main centres before leaving for Australia in February. Mr J. Gordon Davis, who for the last five years has been merchandise manager of the Farmers’ Departmental Store, left by the Awatea yesterday for Sydney and London. At a meeting of the executive of the Westland Timber Workers’ Union it was decided to nominate the secretary, Mr F. L. Turley, as employees’ representative at the International Labour Conference to be held in Geneva in 1937. Mr C. A. Berendsen, permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department, who accompanied the High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, to London and later to Geneva, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Awatea. He was accompanied by Mrs Berendsen. Mr J. H. Chapman, a member of the staff of the Economic Bureau of the League of Nations at Geneva, is at present spending a holiday in New Zealand. Mr Chapman was formerly a member of the New Zealand Customs Department, and in his present position he deals mainly with Customs problems. Mr Walter F. Boyle, American Consul in Auckland, was scheduled to leave for his new post in Guatemala on January 9 by the Monterey, as his successor, Mr Joseph G. Grdeninger, last stationed at Karachi, was due to arrive to-morrow. He will not arrive when expected, however, owing to the shipping strike affecting American vessels, and Mr Boyle is uncertain when he will be able to leave owing to the same reason. Principal Dickie has now completed the series of Gunning lectures which he was invited to deliver in the course of his visit to Great Britain, and Messrs T. and T. Clark, the Edinburgh publishers, have offered to issue them in book form. Principal Dickie will leave England on January 8, and wiil visit Switzerland, Germany and Italy en route for New Zealand, joining a steamer at Naples.