PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19586, 27 May 1935, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Official calls were paid to the Governor-General, Visoount Galway, on Saturday morning by officers of the New Zealand Naval Squadron, the Northern Command, and the Hobsonville Air Base of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Yesterday morning, Their Excellencies attended Divine service at St. Mary’s Cathedral,..Parnell.

The acting-Minister of Finance (the Hon. A. Hamilton) will open the Qtagc Winter Show at Dunedin on Friday.

The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. G. E. Macmillan) left Wellington last night on a visit to 'the Bay of Plenty. He will return to Wellington next Thursday.

Mr J. T. Waugh, private secretary to : Sir Alexander 'Young, of Internal Affairs, is in Hamilton.

'Monsieur E. D. Joubert, French Consul at Auckland, is at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr Justice Reed will arrive from Auckland this afternoon and will preside at the Supreme Court session opening in Hamilton on Wednesday.

A call lias been extended by the congregation of St. Paul’s Church, Napier, to the Rev. D. N. Mao Diarmid, of Opotilci.

Messrs W. S. Brunsklll, P, Craig, I. R. Oliver, W. G. Hulse and J. W. Jeans are gazetted as members of the Whitehall Rabbit Board.

Mr K. L. Usmar, Parliamentary reporter of the Auckland Star, lias been appointed private secretary to Mr Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland.

Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., who has been stationed at Chrlstohuroh for the past eight years, will take up his duties as senior magistrate at Wellington this week.

Lr, G. Stevenson, who has been for si'ino lime a house surgeon at jhe Christchurch Hospital, has resigned to lake up a research scholarship in clinical medicine at Otago University.

An engineering travelling scholarship, tenable for one year, has been awarded to Mr C. R. Newton-King, of tiie Canterbury University College, by the Senate of the University of Now Zealand.

Members of the Kiwitea Rabbit Board are gazetted as follows: Messrs J. W. Batchelar, W. P. Shaw, D. T. Covvpcr, W. L. Grico and A, Lawson

Mr W. Leash and Mr H. Moreland, of Waikato, will judge the Red Poll and Jersey cattle respectively at the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Show,

.Mr H. 15. West, chemist to the Wheat Research Institute, Lincoln College, will leave on Saturday for the United States and Canada, to study modern milling and processing practice as applied to wheal and oats.

Mr N. V. Wood, of Christchurch, inspector for the (Provident Life Assurance Company, has been appointed inspector for the Royal Liverpool Friendly Society at Blackpool, and will leave shortly for England to lake up his new duties.

Mr J. A. Roy, a well-known farmer of the Clinton district, lias been selected as the Government candidate to contest the Clutlnx seat, the present Government member, Mr P. Skimming, having announced his intention not to contest the seal at the approaching elections.

Mr F. G. T. Stubbertlold, superintendent of mails in Christchurch, has retired for health reasons, alter 35J years with the department. He was succeeded by Mr C. B. Tasker, postmaster at Frank ton, who took up his duties last week.

Mr W. F. Parke, of Timaru, has been appointed pilot-instructor to tiie West Coast United Aero Club, which has just been granted Hie loan of a .Moth aeroplane by the Government. Mr Parke, who has over 4 000 flying hours to Ids credit, served with the Royal Air Force in the Great War and from lull) to 1021 with the Canadian Air Force.

Messrs C. 11. Davies, K. W. Alison, l l ’. 11. Hillary, J. Dalton, .1. Shanahan, H. Petersen, A. 11. Coleman, 0. G. Dindslrom, ,J. Shannon (Auckland), W. 11. Saunders, LC. U. McLaclilan (.MasterIon). 11. D. Gibbons, ,J. 11. Young, .1. Warner (Wellington). X. Wilson (Whangarel), 11. Hawkins (Hastings), 11. 11. Johnson (Palmerston North) and 11. M. Bales (Havelock), are at tho Hamilton Ilotci.