Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 6

Personal

The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, was a visitor to Patea yesterday. Dr. A. 11. Cockayne, Director-Gen-eral of Agriculture, was a visitor to Patea yesterday. Mr. Malcolm K. Hitchen, Auckland, has transferred from the Royal Air Force to the New Zealand Antitank Unit in England, according to advice received by his relatives. The Rev. S. R. Wareing, formerly vicar of Te Awamutu, who returned to England in 1937, has relinquished a curacy at Hagley, Worcestershire, to become vicar of Pedmore, in the same county. Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Hart, chief administrative officer in the Near East for the Imperial War Graves Commission, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday morning. He left again for the north. Mr. Frank O’Brien, the well-known Canterbury cricketer and a member of the firm of M. O'Brien and Company, Ltd., is on his way to New Zealand. Mr. O'Brien expects to return home early this month. Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. Bertrand, of New Plymouth, who saw active service in France in the Great War and who formerly commanded the Taranaki Regiment, has gone to Trentham for a course of instruction prior to taking up his appointment as second in command ot the Maori Battalion. On assuming his duties he will take the rank of Major. Mr. H. W. Butler, who for 17 years has been in charge of the postal work in the Dominion Farmers’ Institute ‘ building, Wellington, retired on Thursday and was farewelled by the ; managing director, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, ' and staff, and representatives of some of the offices in the building. He was presented with a cheque by the man- , agement and the staff, and, as a per- , sonal gift, with a book by Mr. Hunt.

Archdeacon Rowland B. Davison, M.A., Archdeacon of Rockhampton, has been appointed to the vacancy in the parish of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland, consequent upon the decision of the former vicar, the Rev. H. V. Salmon, to remain in England, where he had gone on furlough. Archdeacon Davison was vicar of Thames from 1929 to 1931, and of Devonport from 1931 to 1934. He left Devonport to become rector and canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Rockhampton, and was later appointed to the office of archdeacon. The appointment will not take effect until after Easter.