PERSONAL

Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1946, Page 4

PERSONAL

• keadipg §tpker N. Rpbipspn, son of'*Mrt"and Mrs. S. Robinson, ofCanibridge Street, is at prespnt . home on leave. He has 'been with thp Achilles in Japanese waters for the past- six months. After nearly 41 years' seryip.e, during whieh he sa\y the port grow to a major faetpr in fthe eppnpmic jlifp of 'the E)pminipn, Captain H. H. Sprgeant yyill re'tire froiii the p.osition pf harbpurmast.er at Auekiand at the end oi' this" nionth. The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. j Robertsj wili be a' visitor to Paljnierston North this evening to at|tend the farewell functf&ii' oi one Manawatu District Council of Prim^ ' ary Production. He wili be accom-r i pa'nied by Mr. R. B. Tennent, Assist-r ! ant Director of the Department of 1 Agriculture.

Flying-Dfhcer T. K. Taylpr, son of'ivir. and Mrs. T. Taylor, of Queen Street East, h'as been appointed toi the Coloniai Administration Seryice ! in lylalaya." Pripr to th.e war Flying? | Offiper Taylor, who holds an M.'A. j de'gree and a Diplpma of Education, \vas on the staft" of Wellington College. He s.erved overseas ih the Pacific 'and on his return to New Zealand was posted to the R.N.Z.A.F. Station at Levin, where he was cohimissioned. Subsequently he was at the R.N.Z.A.F. Stations'at Rongotai and Woodburn and is at present stationed at Ardmore. i The appointment of the followiing memoers pf the Engineers' Registratiori Board was gazetted last mght (the apppintmenrs are all fpr a term pf tiifee years and the last tthree named are nominees of the council pf the New Zealaiid Instii tiite of Engineers) : Messrs W. L. Newnhain iPubiic Works Department, "Wellington), F. T. M. Kissell (State Hydro-Electric Department, ! Wellington), A. J. Dickson (city engmeer, Auckland), G. E. Breeze ' (Cnief Inspector oh Machiiiery, 1 Wellington) , J. G. Lancaster (conT isuitmg engmeer, Wellington) and 'r. A. Gampbell (consultmg enghiT eer, Christchurch) .