PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 53, 26 November 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message from London states that Sir Charles Wade is retiring from the Agent-Generalship in December. Mr. A. G. F. James, Minister of Education, will probably succcsd him. •

Mr. G. B. Dall, Assistant-Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department, who succeeded Major Holdsworth in charge of the nostal arrangements of tho Now Zealand Expeditionary Force in London, has returned to Wellington -

Captain T. W. White, said to be the onlv Australian prisoner that escaped from Turkcv, has been awarded .the Distingtiisheo: Flying Croßs for conspicuous services. Captain White, who left Australia' in 1915, was captured by tho Turks when on a volunteer bombing expedition against Bagdad,

Mr. H. B. Gray, who has occupied tho position of chief accountant p{ the Wellington Meat Export Company, Ltd., for tho past twelve years, and formerly of the Christchurch Meat Company, has been appointed general malinger 'of tho Taranaki Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd., vice Mr, J. Milne, who has aoceptcd tho position of general mnnagor of the Wellington Meat Export Company, Ltd.

Mir. E. A. Podd, manager of -the Mount G'ambier branch of the Commercial Bank, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington, New Zenlnno', whore he will occupy the position of chief accountant.

Mr. Alfan Sawell, 8.A., at present on Hie staff of Nelson College, has been appointed senior resident master of the secondary department of John M'Gl&shau College, Dunedin.

Mr. H. M'Faddcn, representing tho Ohautauaua. has arrived in Wellington, to make forward arrangements for tho Wellington season. * ' Tho Technical Education Board last evening appointed Mr. M. J. M'Willianis to the position of instructor in olectric.nl engineering mid applied mechanics at the Wellington Technical College. Mr. M'WllHams went to the Unitod States in MM to secure nn engineering training. He entered tho Hose Polytechnic Institute in 1905 and there studied electrical engineering for four years. In '1909 ho received from the Institute the degree of B-Sc. in electrical engineering. He has most recently been an instructor at the Wauganiii Technical College.

Mr. J. L. Leydon, railway stores shipper for the past ten years, has been transferred on promotion to Petone. At a, largo gathering of railwaymen he was presented with, tan/jjblo tokens of the high esteem in which he is held, and good wisbes wero expressed for bis future success.

The Pev. Daniel M'Konzio, who died at his home, Brighton, Melbourno, on Sunday, November 10, wns one of the oldest ministers of the Presbyterian Church. Born at Kilmarnock,' Aryshire, Scotland,' in 1833, Mr. M'Kenzie graduated at Glasgow University, and qualified for the ministry at. Divinity Hall. After fivo To(irs' ministry at Kinghorn, Scotland, no was appointed to tho church at Eyrie Street, Geelong, in 1807. He was trans-' ferred to Footscray in 1871, and thenco received a call to St. George's, Collingwood, in 1878, where he ministered for 26 years with marked success.

A Press Association' message from Invercargill states that the Otago and Southland Synod yesterday appointed the Pev. J. Gumming, of Khandallah, Wellington, to tho Old Testament ohtiir, and the Pov, P. E. Davis of Knox Church, Dunedin, to the New Testament chair at tho Theological College.