PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr F. J. Steel, late of the Public Works Department, Kopuawhara, has been transferred to the Napier office. Mr E. L. Cullen, M.P. for Hawke's Bay, returns to Hastings to-night from the Bay of Plenty, where h© has been inquiring into native affairs. Dr. John Plimmer and MrB Plimmer,»Willis street, left in the Maunganui yesterday on a two months visit to Sydney. Mrs Plimmbr's parents, Mr and Mrs W. O. Burt, reside iu. Sydney. Mr H. L. Beer, of' Napier, has been advised from Australia that he lyts been successful in passing the final Licentiate of Advertising examination, which entitles him to add the letters "L.O.A.," after his name. Mr Norman Davis, an Otago Rhodes Scholar for 1934, has received an ap pointment. as a lecturer in the University at Kaunas, Lithuania, where he will take up his duties in September, While at Oxford Mr Davis specialised in languages. Mr H. N. Holmes, who at one time was secretary of the Y.M.G.A. in Wellington, and is now organising secretary of the% Feaeration of Peace through the Churches, is to visit New Zealand next year, according to private advice received from. him by the last mail. Captain W. H. Hartman, who has been marine superintendent for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Oompany, at Wellington, since February, 1933, is returning to the sea at his own rcsquest, and will take oommand of the company's liner Mataroa after her arrival at Auckland from London on August 12. Captain A. Macintosh, at present in oommand of the Mataroa, will eucceed Captain Hartman as marine superintendent at Wellington.