Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 179, 1 August 1940, Page 4

Personal

Major H. E. Suckling, N.Z. Denial Corps, has been posted to Dental Headquarters, Trentham Mobilisation Camp,

Mr. E. R. Thomas, engineer to the Gisborne Borough Council, who recently went into camp with the New Zealand Engineers, has resumed his civil occupation after being classed unfit for service overseas.

Mr.. A. E. Flower has been reelected chairman of the Canterbury University College Council. Mr. J. G. Polson has been re-elected deputychairman.

Mr. D. W. Oxnam has been awarded the Ensom prize for 1940 by the Canterbury University College Council. The prize is awarded annually for the best essay promoting the cause of international peace.

Mr. A. Connaghton, who was a member of the crew of the Tairoa, sunk by the Graf Spee, and one of the prisoners released from the Altmark in the daring action of H.M.S. Cossack, is in Wellington.

The Bishop of Wellington, Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, has been ordered into hospital to undergo an operation in the near future, states a Wellington Press Association message. It is expected that he will not be able to fulfil his duties for the next two months.