PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20111, 4 December 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. J. W. Palmer, agricultural instructor, Hastings, is in Gisborne on holiday far a few days. Archdeacon Roland B. Davison, 8.A., Rockhampton, has been appointed vicar of the parish of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland.

The engagement is announced of Kenneth George, son of the late Mr. James Monck, Bedfordshire, England, and Mrs. R. H. Robinson, Gisborne, to Truda, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Bayliss, 108 Fox street. Gisborne.

Mr. R. D. Anderson, commercial master at the Wanganui Technical College, has been appointed housemaster at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and will take up his new duties in February. Mr. J. N. Spooner, Featherston, has been appointed stock inspector to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. T. French to Rotorua, and has arrived in Gisborne to take over his new duties.

Gisborne men selected for the noncommissioned officers’ school at Narrow Neck, Auckland, will meet there other Gisborneites who have enlisted from outside centres. Amongst the ex-Gisborneites will be Mr. Ralph G. DeCosta, late of the staff of the Kaikohe branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr. DeCosta, who enters camp on Saturday, was a prominent oarsman while in Gisborne, gaining representative honours.

Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.P., left Gisborne to-day for Wellington and the South Island. In Wellington he will join the Parliamentary Defence Committee of which he is a member, and will travel to Lyttelton and then on to Burnham military camp to make an inspection on Wednesday. They will return to Wellington by the same evening's boat, and on Friday will make a visit of inspection to Trentham. Mr. Coleman expectes to return home on Saturday evening.

During Saturday's gathering of Gisborne Defence Rifle Club members at the Mangapapa range, the vice-presi-dent, Mr. F. P. Jeune, expressed the club’s congratulations to two of its leading marksmen, A. G. Ford and N. W. Taylor, whose offers of service in the special New Zealand force have been accepted. The club would follow their progress in military matters with keen interest, Mr. Jeune said, and he felt sure that their skill in the handling of the rifle would receive its due recognition. Both men were members of the snipers’ platoon inaugurated last year, he added, and it was certain that their talents would not be wasted in duties for which they were less excellently qualified. Mr. Jeune asked the departing club members to accept small tokens of goodwill from their fellow members, and expressed the hope that they would return safe and in good health, to resume once more their club activities.