PERSONALS.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 June 1944, Page 10

PERSONALS.

Miss Walker has been appointed matron at Hukarere College in place of Miss R. Dampney, who has resigned. Miss N. K. Johnston has been appointed by the trustees to a position on the teaching staff of Huka-. rere College. - The Rev. 0. ;-,G. Salt has been appointed assistant curate to, the Ven. Archdeacon Hodgson and will 'be stationed at Taupo. • The Ven. W. ,W. Newnham-Davis, Archdeacon of St. Kitts-Nevis, has been elected Bishop; of Antiqua, British West Indies* In succession to the Rt. Rev; G. S. Hand. The Rt. Rev. Dr. David has resigned the See of Liverpool , to which he was translated in 1923 in succession to Dr. Chavasse. Dr. David will spend his retirement in Cornwall. The Rev f O. SO. Gibson, formerly vicar of Tauranga, was instituted on May 21 by the Bishop of Aotearoa as vic&r of . St. John's Cathedral parish, Napier, and Dean of Waiapu. The Rev. David Colin Duhlop, Provost of St, Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, has been appointed to the Suffragan Bishopric of Jarrow, vacant by the translation of the Right Rev. Leslie Owen to the suffragan see of Maidstorie. The Rev. C. E. Tanner, vicar of Amuri, Nelson Diocese, has been appointed vicar of Si. James, Riccartori, Canterbury. Mr Tanner was curate at St. Matthew's," Hastings, from 1933 to 1935, where he made many friends. - / The Rev. K. Liggett, who has-re-cently returned from the Pacific, where he served as senior chaplain, was instituted vicar of Opotiki oh May 25. Mr. Liggett was curate at St. Matthew's from 1935 to 1938, and his" "many friends in Hastings wish him well in his new charge. The yer^ Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst, of Napier, was instituted as Archdeacon of Hawke's Bay on May 19 by the Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa. Archdeacon Brocklehurst, who is held, in affection throughout the Diocese, has happily made a splendid recovery from his recent serious illness. The Rev. Claude Hyde, who prprceeded overseas with the First Echelon, serving as chaplain in the .Middle East, has been discharged irom. the forces and has resumed his duties as vicar of Wairoa. Some time ago The Waiapu Church Gazette was privileged to publish an unusually interesting account of Padre Hyde'-s visit to the Holy Land.

The Rev; S. X N. .■■ Waymputh, vicar at Havelpck North, was instituted pri May 19 by the Bishop of Aptearoa as canon of St. John's- Cathedral Chapter. Messrs Patrick Francis Hunter, of Havelpck North, Ernest Going Loten, principal of Te- Aute College, and Reginald Percy Wilder, Wallingford^ were each instituted as lay canons of the Chapter. Canon Alfred Hodge, vicar of Taradale, has resigned his charge as from July 31. Canon Hodge recently cele^brated his 81st' birthday. He entered the ministry of the Congregational Church 58' years ago in South Australia and was instituted into the ministry of the Church of England in 1923 by the Bishop of Waiapu. . Shortly afterwards he was appointed vicar at Taradale and in 1927 was appointed vicar at; k St. Augustine's, Napier. In 1935 he returned to. his former charge at Taradale. Canon Hodge . intends to spend his retirement in Napier. The Dean and Chapter of Chichester, England, have presented the Rev. Ernest Courtenay Crosse, D.5.0., M.C., M. A., headmaster of Ardingly College, to the Prebend of H^ghleigh in Chichester Cathedral. The new Prebendary was ordained in 1912, and became' assistant chaplain of Marlborough College. He served as a tempprary^chaplain; to the forces from 1915 to 1919, and was awarded the D.S.O. and M.C. besides being mentioned in dispatches. He left Marlborough in 1920 to become headmaster of Christ's College, New Zealand, a post: which he held until 1930. On his return to England he was for a short time chaplain of Shrewsbury School, but in 1933 was appointed ' headmaster of Ardingly. He will be remembered by a number of Hawke's Bay old boys of Christ's College.