Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 94, 23 April 1940, Page 4

Personal

Mr. W. McKenzie (South C-inter bury) is a visitor to Waginui.

Mr. J. T. Owen was re-elected president of the Gonville Badminton Club at last night’s meeting.

Mr. D. A. Young, Examiner of Titles, Lands and Deeds Department, in Dunedin, has been elected a member of the Public Service Board of Appeal.

Mr. E. T. Robinson, headmaster of the Forest Lake School, has been elected a life-member of the Waikato branch of the New Zealand Teachers’ Institute.

Mr. L. Brinkman, of Christchurch, a former manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Wanganui, was a guest at the luncheon of the Wanganui Rotary Club yesterday.

Mr. Ernest S. Nichol, of the Invercargill staff of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., has been appointed to the position of assistant manager of the firm’s London office.

The Duke of Rutland, a brother of Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, is dead, states a London cable. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Marquis of Granoy, who is at present « second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards.

Mr. E. T. Cox, Dunedin, formerly of Wanganui, where he was minister of Trinity Methodist Church, is spending a few days in Wanganui in the course of business. He was previously Methodist minister in Mornington and Mayor of Dunedin.

Mr. W. L. Graham, L.D.S., R.C.S., (Edin.), has been appointed lecturer in dental prosthetics at the Auckland University College in succession to Mr. J. H. Kinnear, who has joined the military forces. Mr. Graham is in charge of the Auckland Hospital Board’s dental clinic.

Dr. Alfred Cort Haddon, F.R.S., M.A., Sc.D., whose death has been announced in a cable, was born in London in May, 1855. He was Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, from 1880 to 1901, and was university Lecturer m Etnnology at Cambridge from 1900 to 1909, continuing as Reader in Ethnology until 1926. He organised and conducted the Cambridge anthropolog .cal expedition to the Torres Straits, New Guinea, and Sarawak in 1898-99.

Mr. B. C. Annand, of the Public Works Department staff, Fordell, who has been engineer-in-charge of the Turakina-Okoia railway deviation for the past three years, has received notice of transfer to Tongaporutu. During his residence in Fordell Mr. ‘Annand has taken an active interest in the various activities of the district. He is secretary of the Fordell Golf Club, president of the Fordell Library committee, and took an active part in the establishing and building of the swimming baths.

The Rev. A. V. Whiting,* of Yeoville Congregational Church, Johannesburg, South Africa, has accepted the call to Trinity Congregational Church in Christchurch. He studied at Trinity College, Auckland, and at the same time was supervisor of the church at New Lynn. He was ordained at Auckland in March, 1930, and in June, 1930, became associate minister at Beresford Street, Congregational Church, Auckland, and also ‘ »ok over the supervision of the Oiu-aunga Church. After three years he went to England.

Mr. W. Healey, who has been honorary secretary of the Tawhero School Committee since the inception of the school 14 years ago, did not seek re-election last night. When the committee was formed the school stood in an area which was almost a wilderness. To-day its surroundings ate noted for their beauty. Tributes were paid last night to the zeal of Mi Healey and the great pari, he had taken in the work the committee had clone. A suitably-worded motion was carried to place on record the appreciation of parents and others.