Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 289, 7 December 1939, Page 6

Personal

Mr. P. K. Paikea, M.P., for North- ■ ern Maori, and Mr. E. T. Tirikatene, j M.P., for Southern Maori, were in I Wanganui yesterday. Mr. Gordon Skipper, formerly of I the staff of Dilworth School, Auck- i land, has obtained a first-class pass or. ' completion of a training course at Oxford University. He is now attached to the colonial administrative service in Kenya. Mr. T. E. Kelly, electrical engineer ji charge at the ’iuai power station, Waikaremoana, has received advice of . his transfer to Hamilton, and will be succeeded by Mr. J. R. Lough, of the district office, Palmerston North. Mr. J. Wyiie, ot Wellington, who has been appointed advisory officer under the recently passed Domestic Disputes Act, visited Wanganui yesterday. He has gone on to New Plymouth and later will proceed to Auckland. He is due to return to j Wanganui in the near future. I Mr. R. Chittey, officer in charge of the State Advances Department in Wanganui, wfio goes into Trentham Camp on Saturday, has been in Wanganui two and a-nalf years. Before coming to Wanganui Mr. Chittey was stationed in Gisborne for nine months 1 Mr. N. F. (Dick) Waite, of Dannej virke and formerly of Wanganui, i leaves foe the Narrow Neck military I camp at Auckland to-morrow to undergo an n.c.o.s course. Mr. Waite, who is a brother of Constable T. Waite, was educated at the Avenue School and left with the Main Body during the Great War, returning in 1914. Captain D. S. McLeod, ot Dunedin, has been appointed a nautical surveyor to the Marine Department. He has had over 30 years' shipping experience, and during the Great War was a navigating lieutenant in the Royal Navy, being once torpedoed in the English Channel. Captain McLeod holds a letter of appreciation from the Lords Commissioners of lhe Admiralty. Dr. Frank Turner. Auckland, has returned from the United States. He was awarded a fellowship at Yale University, where he has been doing research work in geology for the past year. Dr. Turner, who is a, son of the late Mr. J. H. Turner, formerly o( the staff of the Auckland Grammar School, has resumed his duties at Otago University. Mr. H. A. Murray, of lhe Auckland staff of the State Fire Insurance Office, has been appointed secretary and treasurer of the Auckland Public Service Association in succession to Mr. E. W. A. Drake. Mr. Drake, who was formerly a member of the staff of the State Advances Corporation, has been serving with the Royal New Zealand Air Force at the Hobsonville base since the outbreak of the war. Mr. F. C. Basire has been advised that he has been successful in passing the examination for admission to membership of the Town Planning Institute, London. Mr. Basin’. who is a member o£ the Institute of Surveyors and a councillor of the Town Planning Institute of New Zealand, re cetly resigned from the service of the Wellington City Corporation to accept, a town-planning appointment in the Department o£ Housing Construction. Mr. W. Turney, who has been president of the Wellington Master Butchers’ Association for many years, tendered his resignation on account of his leaving the trade at the annual meeting o£ the association on .Monday. Mr. E. D. Barber, vice-president, in acknowledging the good service rendered by Mr. Tunley to the master butchers in Wellington City and suburbs, presenied Mr. Tunley with a gold wristlet watch as a token of the appreciation and esteem in which Mr. Tunley has been held by the master butchers in the district. Mr. Tunley, in reply, stated that for the past 20 years he had been associated with the master butchers o£ Wellington, and had enjoyed his association with them.