PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20674, 12 March 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs J. Howley i Dunedin) and L. R. Steel (Christchurch) are staying at the Dominion.

Messrs F. L. Aley (Wellington) and J. W. Muir Palmerston North) are guests at the Grand.

Surgeon-Commander R. G. Anthony has been lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy tor three years as from March 8.

The Rev. I. H. Hopkins, 8.A., vicar of the Chatham Islands, has been appointed vicar of St. Peter’s, Kensington.

Mr H. C. D. Somerset, of the Oxford District High School, Canterbury, who has made a world tour under a Carnegie education grant, returned to New Zealand by the Niagara.

Messrs M. Shewan (Wellington), A. Jordan, J. Samson (Dunedin), G. R. Stitt, O. Saunders, A. M. Bridgford (Auckland) and J. G. Anderson (Christchurch) are staying at the Empire.

Guests at the Grosvenor include Messrs M. S. Duckworth, J. G. Scott, A. Cable (Wellington), C. Crozier, S. B. Simpson, G. H. Paterson (Christchurch) and V. LeCren (Fairlie).

Mi- J. J. Southcombe, of the head office of the Stamp Duties Department, Wellington, has been appointed first clerk to the Nelson Stamp Duties Department.

Mr J. A. Engebretsen, who is at present headmaster at the Hastings Street School, Napier, has been appointed headmaster of the Queen’s Park School, Wanganui. Mr Engebretsen is a well-known bowler.

Mr C. P. Smith, district inspector of factories for Taranaki, who has been in charge of the Labour Department office at New Plymouth for several years, has been appointed as a senior inspector for the Department at Auckland.

Advice has been received from London that Messrs J. S. Roberts and F. Smart, M.Sc., of the Wellington City Engineer’s Department, have been successful in passing the examinations for associate membership in the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Sir James Allan, who is a Grand Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, has received advice from Sir Frank Swettenham, King of Arms, that a mercurial gilt plate bearing his name has now been affixed in the St. Michael and St. George Chapel in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.

Professor H. E. Field, the newly-appointed Professor of Education at Canterbury University College, arrived by the Niagara. He was formerly assistant lecturer in philosophy at the college, and was more recently lecturer in education at the University of London.