Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 6

Personal

I Mr George Alurch, town clerk, is oi annual leave and will be absent fron » duty for a fortnight. Messrs Gordon Mcßeth arid Fred I Jones have been appointed adjudi I cators of the Wanganui Carnivn I Choral < ompetition. I < Fiying Officer A. H. Fear, I’urmcrl I of Wellington, has been appointed t No. 2 Army (Jo-operation Air Squat ron, R.A.F., at Ylanston, Dorset. Professor Norman Collie, of Lon do University, is visiting Mount Cook am the southern lakes. He is a forme president of the Royal Alpine Club. ‘ Mr. C. H. Kingsford, who was oi ' the staff of St. Stephen’s College, Bom bay. has been appointed to a headmas tership under the Otago Educatioi ; Board. j Lieut. < ommander A. D. Holden JLN.IL, chief officer of the New Zea ’ land Government motor ship Alau I’omare, has been elected a Fellow ol the Royal Meteorological Society. Air. I’. A. Williams, an executive officer of the Standard Oil Company oi India, and Mrs. Williams, are through passengers to Sydney by the Makura, which arrived at Wellington on M onday. Air. J. O. Neill, mycologist at the plant research station, Palmerston North, returned by the Imperial Star on Alonday after an absence of nine months in England and on the Continent. during which he attended the Imperial Mycological Conference.

i > Mr E. H. Lange, of Feilding, who has • been appointed chief agricultural instructor under the Wanganui Edu«ca- • tion Board, has entered upon his duties. He will make Wanganui his headquarters, but will not shift residence from Feilding until about Easter. Mr. A. H. B. Jones, assistant inspector of the Bank of New South Wales in New Zealand, who has been appointed inspector for the central division of New South Wales, will sail for Sydney by the Niagara on February 18 to take, up his new appointment. Sympathy with Mrs. A. E. McKenzie, of Brunswick, in her serious illness was expressed at a meeting of the managers of the Westmere Presbyterian Church recently. Votes of condolence with Mrs. J. H. Manley in the loss of her husband and with Mr. F. W. SYnith, a former secretary of the church, in the death of his sister, were also passed. HOTEL LISTS. Guests registered at the Grand Hotel include:—Messrs. J. Nincher, B. Kiely, and R. Brown (Wellington); Mr. AL Mcßae (New Plymouth); Messrs. Steven, Jepson, and Whitman (Wellington); Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Watsdli (Mangavveka); Air. and Airs. Peter Discman and family (Sydney).

New arrivals nt the New Rutland Hotel are as follow:—Air. W. Bush, Mr. W. L. AlcKay (Auckland); Airs. G. H. Alexander, Aliss Ruth Alexander, Mrs. J. Lance (Waverley); Air. and Mrs. 11. J. Betts (Stratford); Aliss D Kerslake, Air. H. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. F. Lockwood, AL M F. Watt, Air. A, G. Mad Donald. Air J. Fagan. Air. H. H. Hopkins (Wellington); Mrs. AL. •I. Narby (Darfield). Guests registered at Foster’s Hotel yesterday include the following:— Messrs. F. G. Alaunsell and O. H. Beet ham (Masterton); Airs. A. Sutherland and children, Airs. Bishop, Air. and Mrs. L. A. Hutton, Messrs. C. Quane, H. W. Clarke, J. D. BirrclJ, J. W. Welch, F. Fitt, and Misses M. Wright and J. Banks (Wellington); Messrs. L. Bennet and J. Al. Orbell (Auckland); Mr. G. L. Gledhill (Christchurch); Air. I’. Purdy, Airs. A. J. Hill (London).