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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 6

Personal Items

Mr J. J. Dawson left on Monday for Christchurch, where he has received an appointment on the clerical staff of the New Zealand Railways.

Members of the Arbitration Court, Mi- Justice O’Regan, Messrs W. Cecil Prime and A. L. Monteith, will leave Dunedin for Christchurch this morning.

Mr W. W. Mulholland, of Darfield, was re-elected president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at the annual conference yesterday.

The Grey Hospital Board has accepted the resignation, to take effect from October 5, of Dr. H. C. Barrett, superintendent for the last three years, who is to take up a position as surgeon to the Taranaki Hospital Board, New Plymouth.

The Rev. Alan Brash, son of Mr T. C. Brash, of Wellington, and formerly of Wanganui, has received a call from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at Wanganui. Mr Brash will leave Edinburgh, where he has recently completed his studies for the ministry, in September.

The Bev. John Gilkison, of the Lower Hutt Congregational Church, who was ordained in March of this year, has accepted a call from the London Missionary Society for labour in the missionary field. He is to leave for Sydney toward the end of the present month, and, after a period of preparation there, will go- to Papua.

Mr S. N. Slater, M.Sc., of Wanganui, will leave Dunedin on July 17 to continue his studies at Oxford under Professor Robert R. Waynflete, professor of chemistry, and one of the foremost living organic chemists. Mr Slater has had a brilliant career, and was recently awarded a post-graduate scholarship in science.

Mr G. H. W. Andrews was last night appointed by the Timaru Technical College Board of Managers as engineering instructor al the college, in succession to Mr A. E. O. Llmbrick, who has accepted a position on the staff of the Otahuhu Technical High School. Mr Andrews was educated in Timaru, having been dux of the engineering course at the Technical College in 1929 and 1930. He served his apprenticeship in Timaru and then worked In Christchurch and later at the Addington Railway Workshops.