PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Galway .left Wellington by motor yesterday morninaf lor Wanganui and New Plymouth, en route to Auckland, where they will spend the Christmas holidays. They will spend the week-end at Dawson Falls and will visit the Waitomo Caves, arriving in Auckland on Wednesday,

Mr W. Broach, of Melbourne, Is at the Hamilton Hotel.

.Mr J. S. Neville, town clerk of Christchurch, has returned after a tour of Europe and the United States.

Mr \V. M. O’Hara, the successful trans-Tasman flier, was in Hamilton yesterday.

Messrs T. Earle (Auckland), W. V. Russell (Wellington) and J. Boag (Tauranga) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr A. N.- Jones, formerly of Winton, and a member of the Otago Aero Club, has been granted a short-service commission in the Royal Air Force.

The Rev. D. M. Hercus, of Calvin' Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, has been elected moderator of the Wellington presbytery for the coming year.

Mr H. M. Caselberg, of Hawera, who has been appointed supervising valuer in the North Island for the Mortgage Corporation, is visiting Auckland.

■Mr J. S. Prentice, a former chairman of the Hamilton Rotary Club,' has been elected a member of the Christchurch organisation.

Mr lan D. Blair, of Wellington, has been appointed to the temporary position of assistant biologist on the staff of the Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln.

According to the New ZealandGazette, Captain V. J. Innes has relingulshed the appointment of Area Officer, Area 2A, Paeroa, and has been succeeded by Lieutenant C. Shuttleworth.

Mr T. J. H. Speedy, SurveyorGeneral of British North Borneo, who has been spending six months’ holiday in New Zealand, left from Auckland by the Monowai yesterday on his return to Borneo.

Mr O. R. Bendall, having reached the retiring age, will relinquish the position Of general manager .of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company for New Zealand at December 31. Mr H. S. Malcolm, who for some years has been in charge of the Auckland branch, will succeed him.

Mr J. Allen, retiring headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School, will leave for England in January to join his son who is in the British Foreign Office, London. He will be succeeded by Mr F. W. Gilligan, of Uppingham School, England, who is due in New Zealand on Tuesday.

The resignation of Dr. N. G. McLean, who was recently appointed medical superintendent of Ihe Nurse Cavcll Memorial Hospital s.t Paparoa, lias been received by the Kaipara Hospital Board. Dr. McLean asked that his resignation should take effect from March 31, 1936.