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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21110, 9 August 1938, Page 6

Personal Items

Sir Harold Beauchamp, who has been visiting England, will return by the Rangitane, arriving in Auckland on August 24.

Mr F. S. Hayes, who has been headmaster of the Reefton District High School for the last three and a half years, has been appointed headmaster of the Featherston School.

Mr Angus McDonald will leave Auckland by the Niagara to-day on his way to Glasgow to join the Union Company’s new steamer Komata as chief engineer.

Canon C. Ritchie, a brother of Mr W. T. Ritchie, “Te Tawa,” who has been spending some weeks in New Zealand, left yesterday on his return to England, accompanied by his son, Mr Kenneth Ritchie.

Following the retirement of Mr L. W. Robertson, the appointment is notified by Governor-General’s Warrant of Mr W. R. Butcher to the position of locomotive engineer of the North Island railways. He has been assistant-locomotive engineer since 1932.

In a temporary exchange of positions, Mr E. G. Jones, lecturer in science and geography at the Auckland Teachers’ Training College, will leave for the United States by the Niagara to-day to teach for a year at the State Normal and Training College, Cortland, New York. His position at Auckland will be taken during his absence by Dr. Adelbert K. Botts, who is at present instructor in geography at Cortland. The exchange is the first between teachers in New Zealand and the United States.

Professor J. B. Condliffe, who holds the Chair of Commerce in the University of London, has been awarded the Henry E. Howland Memorial Prize by the Corporation of Yale University, U.S.A., according to advice received by Dr. J. Hight, Rector of Canterbury University College. The prize is awarded by Yale University to citizens of any country for some achievement of distinction in the field of letters, fine arts or science of government. The prize consists of a medal and a sum of money, and the conditions are that the recipient shall visit Yale University for six weeks and deliver two memorial lectures there.