PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17783, 7 August 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Glover Clark, of Auckland, Divisional Organiser of the United Political Organisation, is visiting Hamilton.

Tributes to the' work of the late Mr 11. P. Kissling were paid at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company.

Mr. H. G. Bell, chief reporter of the New Zealand Herald, has been appointed associate editor of the Dominion, Wellington.

The judges at the Rotorua Competitions in October will be: —Elocution, Mr. Walter Russell-Wood, of Auckland and Hamilton; music, Mr. Alf Boyce of Cambridge.

Mr C. Campbell, formerly manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Apia, has been promoted to duty In New Zealand and arrived at Auckland by the Tofua.

Mr. W. Whitfield, Mayor of Hurstville, Sydney, and vice-president of the New S -th Wales Hockey Association is in Hamilton.

Mr John Reid, of the Hamilton staff of the Public Trust, who has been transferred to headquarters, Wellington, will leave by the Limited on Sunday night to take up his new duties, j

Mr R. Syme, M.A., of Oriel College and Senior Demy of Magdalen College, Cambridge, has been elected to an official fellowship at Trinity College as lecturer in ancient history.

Mr John Watt Deem, who is fields superintendent for the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, and Taranaki districts, has been appointed director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture in succession ta Mr A. H. Cockayne.

The Rev. Laurence H. Ker, of the Manchuria Christian College, arrived at Auckland by the Ulimaroa yesterday on furlough. He is accompanied by Mrs Ker and his two children, and will spend some time with his relatives at Huapai.

The lion. E. Farrar, Minister of Labour and Industries in the New South Wales Government, arrived at Auckland by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Mr Farrar expects to leave this cxcnlng for Wellington to meet Sir Joseph Ward, and lie will return at the weekend to greet Mr T. Bavin, Premier of New South Wales, who is on the Makura on his way home after a health recruiting trip. Mr Farrar will return to Sydney with Mr Bavin on the Makura.