Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 44, 22 February 1940, Page 4

Personal

Mr. E. F. Hemingway, Mayor of e Patea, was a visitor to Wanganui yes- - terday. Mr. A. E. Cameron, assistantsupervisor of the postal branch of the - Post and Telegraph Department, d Christchurch, has retired on superane nuation after 40 years’ service. n Appreciation of the services of Mr. E. Crosby during his term as acting senior inspector, was expressed at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui ; 1 (Education Board by the chairman, Mr. f E. F. Hemingway. Mr. F. R. Chitty, formerly of the State Advances Department, Wanganui, who is in camp at Trentham, ■ with A Company of the Wellington West Coast Regiment, Second Echelon, has been promoted to the rank s of quartermaster-sergeant. Mr. P. Green, of Wanganui, well known as a member of the Pirate [Rugby Football Club, who is in Tren- - i tham Camp, attached to B Company 3 lof the Wellington Regiment, Second '• Echelon, has been promoted to the 2 rank of sergeant. s Mr. J. B. Cotterill, M.P. for Wan- - ganui, who has been serving as a cor- - .poral with B Company (Wellington West Coast Regiment), 22 Rifle Battalion of the Second Echelon, at Trentham camp, has been promoted to ' sergeant. Dr. Russell Chisholm of Palmerston - North, who has been on temporary - duties at Ohakea Areodrome, has en- ■ listed for war service. Dr. Chisholm, 1 who has been honorary physician and 1 obstetrician at the Palmerston North I Public Hospital, has been given leave of absence by the board. Sympathy with the relatives of the i late Mr. Blyth, headmaster of the ’ Ohakune District High School, was - passed at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. The chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway, said that Mr. Blyth was a famous athlete and mountaii climber and had made nearly 150 ascents of Mount Ruapehu. He was a very good and conscientious teacher. Rev. Father S. Bourke, of the ■ Society of Mary, a former Wanganui ■ boy will leave on Tuesday for Apia, ; where he has been appointed to the mission staff. Father Bourke was educated at the Wanganui Marist ‘ Brothers’ School, St. Patricks’ College (Silverstream), and at St. Mary’s ‘ Scholasticate, Hawke’s Bay. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bourke, of Bute Street, Aramoho. To-night Father Bourke will be farewelled at Ist. Joseph’s Schoolroom.