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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 563, 17 September 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The Prime Minister (Mr Forbes) and the Minister of Lands (the Hon E. A. Ransom) returned to Wellington last evening. Mr FI. H. Sterling, chairman of the Railways Board, left for Wellington by the ferry steamer last evening. Mr G. M’Namara. Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, returned to W'elhngton by the ferry steamer last evening. Mr H. Atmore, M.P. for Nelson, left Christchurch this morning for Dunedin, tyhere he will deliver an address in the Town Hall on Monday evening.

Mr A. L. Curry, 3YA’s announcer, left last night by the Maori for Masterton, his home town, where he intends to spend his annual vacation. Mr A. A. Reid, of Toatoa, Bay of Plenty, and late of Dunsandel, has been appointed manager of the Barrys Bay dairy factory, as successor to Mr J. j- Walker. Mr G. A. Goyder. assistant to the vice-president of the Canadian International Paper Company, of Montreal, was in Christchurch yesterday, and left for Wellington last evening. Sir William D. Hunt, a. vice-president of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, will give an address at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Employers’ Association next Tuesday week. Mr Harley Thomas, formerly of Christchurch, who retired from the service of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company a few years ago. and who has since resided in the South of France, has decided to take up his residence in New Zealand again. He is due in Wellington about the middle of December. The King has approved the appointment of Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Newfoundland in succession to Sir John Middleton. From 1923 to 1925 Sir David Anderson, as Rear-Ad-miral, was senior officer on the Yangtse, and in the latter year became temporarily Commander-in-Chief of the China Station. He was Commander-in-Chief of the African Station from 1927 to 1929, and from the latter year until 1931 he was Admiralty representative on the League of Nations Permanent Advisory Committee. Later he became Aide-de-Camp to the King. Mr A. E. Joseph, a young New Zealander who has spent the past two years in Natal, was the central figure in a ceremony at the Durban Police Station recently. Mr Joseph was presented with an engraved silver cigarette case on behalf of Detective M. Swan. Some months ago Detective Swan was critically ill, following an operation, and a blood transfusion was ordered as the only means of saving his life. Mr Joseph, who is in charge of the Commissariat at the station, where there are 150 men, was chosen as the fittest man to give the transfusion. Detective Swan recovered, and has returned to duty. Mr Joseph, an ex-Christ’s College'’boy, was well known in Canterbury athletics.