PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 115, 1 June 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL

Professor J. Rankine Brown, of the Chair of Classics, at Victoria University College, Wellington, has been granted leave at the end of the second term after August 14, for a vacation in Europe. Mr Eric Rickard, late of the wool depaxtment of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Napier, and J. Whdttingham and Sons, Ltd., wool merchants, Bradford, Engiand, • has joined the wool department of Williams and Kettle, LtdMrs Swan, Wellington, and former resident of Wanganui for many years, and her daughters, Mrs J. Carr, of Auckland, and Miss Joseplrine Swan, of Wellington, have taken up. residence at New Plymouth. Miss Josephine Swan will shortly begin her training at a nurse at the New Plymouth Public Hospital. Mr G. E. Buckland, who recently retired from the position of newsroom foreman of the Waikato Times after holding that position for over 21 years — from when the company was first formed when the two papers in the town, the Waikato Times and Waikato Argus were amalgamated — was tlie recipient of a suitabie gift at the annual meeting of the capital and labour shareholders of the company^ Mr John Johnson, M.A., of Canterbury College staff, has left for the TJnited States, where he will spend six monthe studying adult education as the bolder of a Carnegi© Travelling Grant. He is acompanied by his wife, Mrs Dorothy Johnson, B.H.Sc., who intends to study phases of home economics and extension work. They will both be representatives of New Zealanc| at the World Conference of Friends near ePliiladelphia in September.