Personal Items

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr G. H. Leslie, of Auckland, has been appointed to the Government training school for dental nurses in Wellington.

The Rev. H. R. Fell, who has been minister at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Greymouth, for the last nine years, has had extended to him a call from the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington.

Mr C. F. Marshall Smith has been appointed engineer to the Hawera Borough Council. Mr Smith is assistant engineer to the Rangltikci County Council. He will commence his duties at Hawera in the New Year.

Mr J. J. Dwyer, acting stationmaster at Hamilton, will retire on superannuation next month after 40 years’ service. He is a former Auckland branch president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and South Auckland president of the Railway Officers’ Institute.

Mr A. Knapp, mails supervisor at the New Plymouth Post Office for the last two years, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to the position of senior mails supervisor at the Dunedin Post Office. He will be succeeded at New Plymouth by Mr S. R. Holmes, of Palmerston North.

To take command of the minesweeper Wakakura, Lieutenant P. B. M. Lewis arrived at Auckland by the Akaroa from Southampton. He is to relieve Lieutenant Phibbs, who is returning to England after serving on the New Zealand station for the last two years and a-half. Lieutenant Lewis will remain in New Zealand for the next two years and a-half, when he will return to England. He was only recently promoted to his present rank, and the Wakakura will be his first command.

Mr D. Jeune, Mackenzie County engineer-clerk, was congratulated by members of the Council at yesterday’s meeting on gaining a Carnegie grant for the study overseas of public administration. The chairman (Mr W. R. Davison) said the grant was the first made in New Zealand for the study of public administration. Other speakers were Messrs C. J. Talbot and P. Kidd, the latter stating that it was generally recognised that the Council had an engineer of outstanding ability, and his knowledge would be greatly extended by a trip abroad. After the Council had agreed to grant him nine months’ leave of absence from the end of the financial year (March 31), Mr Jeune stated that it was not his intention to leave the county. He intended to return to his position and give the county the benefit of any knowledge he obtained.