PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. R. C. McLatchie, of the staff of Corn the Chemist Ltd., has received advice that he has been successful in passing section B of the recent pharmacy examinations.

Captain D. S. McLeod, Dunedin, has been appointed a nautical surveyor of the Marine Department. Captain McLeod served in the Royal Navy as a navigating lieutenant in the Great War.

Mr. D. L. Grant, Hamilton, has been promoted to succeed Mr. _G. D. Aschmann as resident electrical engineer to the Southland ElectricPower Supply. Mr. Grant was formerly a member of the Southland staff.

Mr. Gordon Skipper, formerly of the stall' of Dilworth School, Auckland. has obtained a first-class pass on completion of a training course at Oxford University. He is attached now to the colonial administrative service in Kenya.

Mr. W. G. Cooper, formerly chief postmaster in Wanganui and now retired from the service, has been offered and has accepted the position of metropolitan commissioner of the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association for the Wellington district. Advice has been received in Napier that Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., Wellington. is to relieve Mr. J. Miller, S.M., Napier, who is indisposed. Mr. Stilwell will conduct the Magistrates’ Court. Napier, next Monday, and will preside in Hastings on Tuesday. iand in Waipukurau and Dannevirke later in the week. .The staff of Messrs. Warren and Heeney, building contractors, met yesterday afternoon to farewell Mr. A. G. Ford, who leaves Gisborne to-morrow as a corporal to enter the non-commis-sioned officers’ camp at Trentham. The staff presented Mr. Ford with a dress case and the employers gave him a razor as a token of the esteem in which he was held while in the employ of the firm. The recipient made a suitable reply.