PERSONALS.

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1950, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Captain C. B. Morgan, D. 5.0., D.S.C., retired from the command of the liner Monowai yesterday, after a life of 49 years at sea, 41 of them with the Union Steam Ship Co. Mr W. G. Price was re-elected president of the Wanganui Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association at the annual meeting last night,

Mr G. N. Boulton, secretary of the Wanganui Education Board, was last night elected a member of the executive of the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries. He will represent Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu. Captain F. W. Young has been appointed to succeed Captain G. B. Morgan as master of the liner Monowai. Captain Young joined the company in 1922, and has commanded 15 of the company’s ships. Mr. Julius Hogben, of Auckland, has been elected president of the newly-formed Federation of Chamber Music Societies and Mr. F. Turnovsky, of Wellington, has been elected vicepresident. Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., of New Plymouth, who has been on a holiday in England, took ill shortly before he was due to return to New Zealand He is now convalescing from an operation and is making satisfactory progress The Hon. Dr. C. E. Million, a member of the Council ot Mauritius, arrived in Auckland by flying-boat yesterday to attend the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to be held in Wellington, He will represent Mauritius, the Bahamas and Bermuda. The Rt. Rev. .J. A. Thomson, of Invercargill, who will be installed as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Now Zealand when the Presbyterian General Assembly opens in Auckland this afternoon, is minister of First Church, Invercargill. Ho had previously been stationed at Clevedon, Bay of Islands, and St. Luke’s parish, Auckland. Dr. A. G. Butchers, who is to retire shortly from the position of director of tl.e Correspondence School, Wellington, will be visiting Wanganui today. He will attend a picnic at Aramoho Park for children of the Correspondence School and in the afternoon will address a meeting of the Junior Red Cross. Today the Rev. E. W. Hames, M.A., Principal of Trinity Theological College, Auckland, will become president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand. He will be inducted to the office by the retiring president, the Rev. H. J. Odell, at the annual conference in Dunedin. Mr Hames was born in Takapuna, Auckland, where his father, Mr. Luther Hames, was headmaster of the public ;*hool. Mr. Hames will represent the Methodist Church of N.Z. at (he general conference in Au - I.alia and the British conference in Sheffield in Julv, 1951.