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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 6

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Mr. H. R. Penny has been appointed a producers’ representative on the New Zealand Honey Control Board. Mr. J. W. G. Brodie has returned 1o Wellington after a five weeks’ visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Surgeon-Lieutenant E. S. McPhail, i R.N.V.R., of Rangiora, has been appointed to serve as medical officer of H.M.S. Monowai. Captain G. B. Morgan, formerly master of the Maunganui, is temper- I arily in command of the Awatea, in ' the absence on sick leave of Captain A. H. Davey. Mr. Gordon Herbert Donaldson Grant was on Monday admitted by Mr. Justice Fair as a barrister of the Supreme Court on the motion of Mr. S. J. Elliott. Mr. J. Sidciells leaves for Clive. Hawke’s Bay, to-day. He will be away until January 4, when he will : ibe back in Wanganui for four days ! prior to going to Wellington. The Rev. Hayes Lloyd, of the Lower Hutt Baptist Church, has accepted a call to the Hastings Baptist Church. ' He will take up his new charge at the beginning of March. Mr. F. E. Graham litis been elected chairman of the Christchurch Stock 1 Exchange. Mr. H. Kitson, who has ■ been chiarman for six years and aid not seek re-eleetion, has been eicwl.pd ■ vice-chairman. Mr. Hector Bolitho, the well-known author, formerly of Auckland, has been given a commission in. the Royal Air Force and has been aopointed io a post on the Directorate of Intelligence at the Air Ministry, London. Mr. A. B. Robson, who for 19 years has been chief clerk and accountant 1 at the Hamilton office of ihe Public Works Department’s electrical brane i, has been transferred lo Whangare 1 . He will be succeeded by Mr. R. ’ Agnew, of Wellington. Dr. 11. L. Gould, of Hunily, ,\ as ■ congratulated by the Auck’and Hospital Board on his appoin mem as medical superintendent of t:ie Waikato Hospital. Dr. Gould was at 1 one time assistant-medical sup?’i,i- -' tendent of the Auckland Hospital. ‘ Mr. S. J. Irwin, who been se.i.<w i inspector for the Southland pr.’maiy ■ schools district for the last five years, 1 has been promoted to the position of I. senior inspector for the Wellington 1 district and will take up hi.s rew • duties on March 1, i Mr. A. McElwain, who ha.s relin- • quished the position of publicity manager of Theatre Management, Ltd., and has been appointed to the literary staff of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, was entertained at morning tea at the ■ D.1.C., Wellington, on Tuesday. i The following have been appointed I members of the Canteen Board, ac--1 cording to a Gazette notice: Messrs, i F. R. Picot, B. C. Ashwin, Wing-Com-i mander A. de T. Nevill (Royal New ' Zealand Air Force), Lieutenant- ■ Colonel S. H. Crump (New Zealand ■ Staff Corps, Paymaster LieutenI ant-Commander H. R. Sleeman I (N.Z.N.F.), Mr. H. S. Feast, assistant town clerk, will succeed Mr. J. S. Neville as . town clerk of Christchurch when the ' latter retires on April 30. Mr. Feast 1 will be acting-town clerk during Mr. ? Neville’s retiring leave. One of the > most popular local body officers in > Christchurch, and well known as a ■’ performer and administrator in sevt eral sports, Mr. Feast was born in , I Christchurch 41 years ago, and re- , ■ ceived his education at St. Michael’s ; - School and the Christchurch Technical , • College. He jointed the staff of ihe • Christchurch City Council in 1913, ■ and apart from five months after lie ; ■ became of military age and went in'.o . camp at. Fetaherston, he has been m ; • the service of the council ever since.