PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 4

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. Government House. Wellington, October 12. His Excellency the Governor-General, attended by Captain 11. G. Ilelmore, was present at a pert'ornituice given by the Wellington Repertory Theatre in the Teeliuieal College Hall this evening.

Mr. IV. T. Ikin, manager for Now Zealand of the A.M.P. Society, has left on a visit to Australia. Air. D. K. Pickett, master of Ormond College, Melbourne, and formerly professor of anpliisl nmlhemnJies nt Victoria University* College, Wellington, lias (endcred his resignation on the ground of ill,-heallh. I'l'lte Rev. J. \V. McKenzie, ALM., 8.A.., senior chaplain to Hie 2nd N.Z.E.l I '., is to lie nominaled by the Southland Presby ler.v as Aloderator Designate of tlie General Assembly, lie was born in Invercargill ami was a member of First Presbyterian Church. He went as a student to Otago University under the Southland Presbytery. He served in the last war, going overseas with tlie Aledical Corps in 1915, and won tlie Alililary Aledal at I’asshcendacle. lie completed his theogolieal course at Glasgow University, and wh.-n lie returned Io New Zealand lie was minister at. St rill ford, at Port Chalmers, and then at Epsom. He is slill minister of tlie Epsom eliarge, but: is on leave while with tlie forces. At present lie is serving in the Middle East.