Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17120, 15 April 1921, Page 7

Personal Items.

Mr F C. Renyard, 8.A., first special assistant at *h e Feijding High School, has been selected from thirty-eight applicants to be director of the Masterton Technical School. The position carriea a salary of £SOO per year. Jlr Peter Barr haa been appointed chairman of the Appeal Boards in connexion with the grading of 'secondary and technical school teachers, • and Mr T B. Strong haa been appointed the representative of tho Education Department on these Boards, • The following Judges of tho Supreme Court are appointed members of the first division of the Court of Appeal : Mr Justice Sim, Mr Justice Hosking, jfr Justice Stringer. Mr Justice Reed, and Mr Justice. Adams. The following are appointed members of the second S vision:—Mr Justice Sim, Mr Justico osking, Mr Justice Stringer, Mr Jubtfee Herdman, and Mr Justico Salmond. The following candidates passed an examination in first aid to the injured, held recently under the auspices of tho gt John Ambulance Association: — Jfissrs E, 0. Baldock, E. J. Chapman, H Dunford, P. G. Evans, N. C. Hoddinott, R. L. Hoddinott, J. McEwan, F. VL Macßherry, W. H. Orborne, E. A. gjyers, J. M. Stanley, G. F. White. 0, W. G. Wood. Jlr Malcolm Niccol, who for some * twenty years has held the office of Brand Secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Now Zealand, with peripatetic . Ssiaence in the four chief cities of the Dominion for periods of two years, and fog new practically rotirod, has taken 'Whin homo in Auckland. Mr Niccol was the first Mqyo- of Devonport, and held the position fo.- a very long period. ;'"|je is aljo an ex-chairman of the AuekJwJd. Harbour Board. ; • Mr 0. Renn, secretary of the Canter* Vdjy Federation of Unions, was the rocfofent last night of a presentation fiwn the various trades unions in affiliation with that body. Mr ATongue (president of tho Federation), •died Mr Renn to accept a gold watch InjJ chain, and, in doing so, said that Ike. gift wbb a mark of appreciation of fork done on behalf of the unions in 1 the Co 1"" *1 of Arbitration. Mies V. Co* (typiste), was presented with a geld tyOQeh, and a Similar gift waa provided fpf Mrs C. Ronn, Sir Joseph Ward has been enjoying « oped deal of golf at the Ranelagh Club {•rites our Condon correspondent nn- ' "dtf date of February 24th)., He and ' Ltdy Ward l>ra remaining in London ffltJJ March 4th, when Sir Joseph will • ff present a* the farewell dinner to 'Ewf Reading. Thoy hope to be able ' ' to start for the South of France on 'fta following day, To-day he was at a 'hjnebeon givon by the Imperial Air ' ffcet Committee, in honour of Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, the Australian 'wing WW- I n proposing the toaßt of 'the chairman (Lord Desborough), the popular sportsman, Sir Joseph remind'cd him that thov were on the Imperial ' Atf Fleet Committee together from its inception. I" this connexion, it will " be remembered that Sir Joseph Ward " was tho first Dominion Minister to go up in the air, Lord Desborough had bean siicgested, said Sir Joseph, as the next Governor-General of Canada, ana ~he trueted that his appointment-would V eventually come to pass. Ho recalled Mho faot that on the occasion of the . selection of ft new Governor fpr New \ Zealand, he. (Sir Joseph) had been 'ftnxious to have Lord Desborough as 1 ' Inch, ft selection-which he hoped might on tome future occasion be made.