Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 96, 26 April 1940, Page 4

Personal

Dr. J. D. Salmond, director of youth work for the Presbyterian • Church of New Zealand, who has been spending the past month in Auckland, left on Tuesday to visit the Presbytery of North Auckland. Mr. F. Langbein, Christchurch, who has been appointed engineer to the Main Highways Board, arrived at Wellington on Tuesday from the south to attend a meeting of the board. Archdeacon J. R. Young, was reelected president of the Wanganui branch of the British and Foreign ; Bible Society, at the annual u-.eeting • held on Wednesday. ; A motion of sympathy with the i Government in the death ci the late Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, was carried at the Wanganui Provincial Executive meeting of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, on Wednesday. Mr. F. G. Seddon, secretary of the Wanganui Returned Soldiers’ Association, is always a busy man when Anzac Day comes round. He has a great deal of detail work to do, beginning with making arrangements for the sales of poppies and ending with the financial and box office arrangements for the wartime scena in the Opera House. Many complim,?i;tary references were made yesterday to the steady way in which he carried out his duties.

Dr. Alexander Stuart King, younger son of Rev. and Mrs. Stuart King, Strath Taieri, Otago, has passed with distinction, the degree in tropical medicine. He is now occupying a position on the staff of the Medical School, Edinburgh. During the currency of that appointment he will study to become an F.R.C.S. Dr. King has offered his services to the War Office in London and hopes that eventually he may be able to serve with a medical unit attached to the New Zealand Forces.

Mr. Cheviot Bell, who has been chairman of the Wellington Division of the National Party for the past three years, did not seek re-election at the annual conference of the division on Tuesday. Eulogistic references were made by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Hamilton, by the Dominion president of the National Party, Mr. C. H. Weston, K.C., and by delegates to the conference, to the magnificent service that Mr. Bell had rendered to the party. Later Mr. C. G. E. Harker, Waipawa, moved, on behalf of the- conference, a resolution of appreciation which was carried with musical honours.