PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19990, 15 July 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. E. L. Wa 1 ton. S.M.. who has been engaged in the monthly court sittings in the Bay of Plenty, returns to Gisborne this afternoon.

Miss Mary Bright, Hawera, has been selected as one of two Taranaki provincial court hostesses for. the New Zealand Centennial exhibition

After 42 years’ service with the Bank of Australasia, Mr. R. G. Fawkner, manager of the Te Aroha branch, has retired.

Dr. R. A. Shore, inspector of hospitals under the Health Department, passed through Gisborne yesterday en route to the Bay of Plenty. He did not transact departmental busi ness in Gisborne.

Advice has been received that Pilot-Officer, -D. Neville Milligan, of Wellington, who is with the Royal Air Force, has been posted to the reconnaissance section of a squadron at Singapore, for which base he was to leave England at the beginning of this month

Mr. W. M. Findlay, superintendent of experiments at the Craibstone Experimental Station of the North of Scotland Agriculture College, Aberdeen, -has been invested with the M.B.E. by His Majesty the King. Mr. Findlay is a brother of Mr. F. Findlay. Hamilton, and of the late Mr. Waller Findlay, Gisborne.

The degree of Doctor of Eduear tion of the National University in Dublin has been awarded to the Rev. Father Francis Terry, inspector of religious teaching in the Catholic Diocese of Auckland. Dr. Terry has been studying for the past three years at the university under one of the foremost authorities on education in Europe.

Dr. Peter H. Buck delivered the Commencement Address at the ' University of Rochester, N.Y., on June 19. That university is to confer upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science for work done on the ethnology of Polynesia. The Terry Lectures will be published by the Yale Press in the autumn of this year. On leaving the States, Dr. Buck vill resume duty at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu.

The Hon. Mark Fagan, Leader of the Legislative Council, in a message .to the Rotorua Post, stated: “Acting on medical advice, it is my intention shortly to resign the leadership o! the Legislative Council, together with my seat in the Cabinet, and I .shall do so with extreme reluctance. During recent months I have not enjoyed the best of health, and have felt the strain of Ministerial office, which is the sole and only reason for my not continuing lo hold my present position.”