Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 6

Personal

Mr. Justice Smith, who will preside at the quarterly session of the Supreme Court which opens in Wanganui this morning, is a guest at Foster’s Hotel. Mr. F. W. Dawson, formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed to a seat on the local board of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd. i A Press Association message says ■ that secretarial work for all of IDn. Peter Fraser's portfolios during his i absence will be carried on from Mr. Fraser's office by Mr. P. J. G. Smith, private secretary to the Minister of Education. t Dr. I. E. Coop, a graduate of Can- , terbury University College, who re- . cently returned to New Zealand after , carrying out advanced study in phy- , sical chemistry at Oxford, and in bio- . chemistry at Cambridge, has been appointed to the plant chemistry section of the Plant Research Bureau, Palmerston North, l Archdeacon W. Bullock, of Weli lington, Vicar General of the Diocese, ; was a week-end visitor to Wanganui. : He conducted communion at St. . Peter’s Church, Gonville, at 8 a.m. i yesterday and took the morning ser- ■ vice at Christ Church. Last niglv he - took the service at St. Peter’s when he was assisted by the Rev. V. C. Venimore. Archdeacon Bullock will re- ? turn to Wellington to-night. ? Mr. R. B. Sibson. M.A.. who wa.t f lately appointed classics master at . King's College, Auckland, has arrived f from England. Mr. Sibson was edu- ’ cated at King's School, Rochester, and > at University College, Oxford, where t he took honours and the diploma in 1 education, and was awarded the Con- ■ ington Greek Prize, also representing his college at football and athletics. He has had some years of teaching experience in English schools, and is 1 a member of the British Trust for ’ Ornithology.