PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. K. Templin has been appointed consulting engineer to the Ashburton Electric Power Board. Mr T. N. Brodrick, 0.8. E., is retiring shortly from his position as Tinder-Secretary of Bands. Mr •Fendall, of the Ruotihi branch of the Bank of Xevr Zealand, has been transferred to Taunarunui. It is reported that Mr C. F. Bellringer has been selected as the Reform candidate to oppose Mr S. G. Smith, for New Plymouth. Mir C. F. Day, who has been stationmaster at Wanganui for the last year or two, has retired on superannuation. The Rev. H. E. Bellhouse, minister in charge of the Taranaki street Methodist Church, Wellington, is seriously ill.

Councillor A. D. McLeod hap bees re-appointed the Featherston County! Council’s representative on the Wairarapa Patriotic Association. Mr Drake, clerk to the Hunterville Town Board, has been appointed clerk to the New Lynn Town Board. There were S 4 applicants for the position.

It is stated that Mr J. H. Fowler, the well-known Government audit inspector, has been appointed chief inspector of the Audit Department in succession to Mr Lamb, retired.

The death at Waipawa is announced of *(lr John Britten, in his 86th year. Deceased who was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1836, came to New Zealand in 1856, by the ship Westminster.

A meeting of Liberals and Moderate Labour, held at Featherston, on Thursday, officially selected Mr John W. Card, solicitor, of Featherston, an the candidate for the Wairarapa seat .at the coming elections.

Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Defence, announced at Christchurch that whatever his own inclinations were towards a political holiday, he has, in view of the many requests made by the electors, definitely decided te contest, the Ellesmere seat at the general electiom

It is understood that Mr E. C. Banks, of Matamara'(chairman of the Auckland Education has decided to become a candidate for the Waikato electorate in the interests of the Rafe rm Party. This makes four candidates already in the field.

Mr J. G. Harkness, of Wellington, has been appointed a member of the Dominion Land Purchase Board. Ti e members of the Wellington Land Purchase Board are:—West Coast: Oscar Monrad (Palmerston North), James Georgetti (Wanganui), James McEwen (Hunterville). Wairarapa: Hugh Morrison (Masterton), Leonard Houlbrooke (Tiraumea).

Mr Anders Anderson, one of the pioneer settlers of the EScetahuna district, whoso death we announced yesterday, arrived in New Zealand in the ship Forfarshire 49 years ago. Mr Anderson settled at Eketahuna on the site now occupied by the railway station. He was the owner of the first horse and dray in the Eketahuna district, and his son, Albert, was the first white child born there. He is survived by his wife and five children, Messrs. Albert and Wilkie Anderson, Miss Alice Anderson, Mrs P. F„ Carroll, and Mrs Maltabar, and seven grandchildren.

At the December sitting, Mr T. Arthur Johnston, of Wellington, was elected an Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., London. Mr Johnston is at present on the engineering staff of the Public Works Department, Mangahao, and is a Bachelor of Engineering of the University of Edinburgh. He is a eon of Mr John Johnston, one of New Zealand’s early settlers. Another son. Dr. W. H. Johnston, B.A. (N.Z.), M.D., F.R.C.S., Edin., who wa s for a year relieving at Martinborough. was recently appointed medical administrator and chief surgeon of the Highbury, Uffculme and Sorrento Orthopaedic Hospitals, Birm" ingham