PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 168, 3 August 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr„ R. B. Talbot was appointed deputy-chairman of the Hawke's Bay Rivers Board at yesterday 's meeting. The Et. Eev, Dr. Brodie, Bishop of Christchurch, is to leave Christchurch on August 19 for Australia to attend the National Synod in ^ydney. Mr H. M. Christie, M.P. for Waipawa, is away on a speaking tour of the Marlborough distiuct, South Island, and oxpects to be absent for about a week. Mr. lan Milner, New Zealand Ehodes seholar, will visit New Zealand before taking up his Commonwealth Fellowship at Berkeley University, Calit'ornia. He will travel to the Dominion through Eussia and China, Mr C. A. Hendry, LL.B., District Public Trustee^ Hastings, has been appointed by the Hawke's Bay Education .Board as one of its representatives on the Board of Governors of the Hastings High School. Mr. H. T. Harle, chief oteward at the Wanganui Collegiate School for the last 25 years, is to retire at the end of this term. ' His place is to be filled by Mr. S. H. Gould, a returned soldier, who was a teacher for the Wanganui Education Board before the war. Surgeon-Lieutenant E. V. VaughanJones, who received his commission in April, has arrived in New Zealand to join the Imperial escort vessel Wellington as ship's surgeon in succession to Surgeon-Lieutenant R. F. Stenhouse, a New Zealander, whose term of service with the ship has expired. Canon F. Quintrell was congratulated by the Nelson Synod on his 50 years' ministry in the parish of Picton and the parochial districts of Collingwood, Reefton, Awatere and Brightwater, where he is serving at present. Mr. Quintrell intends to retire next March and make his home near Auckland. The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister ot Internal Affairs, left Wellington yesterday njorning for Gisborne and other parts of the East Coast to attend conferences of county councils of the district on the Government 's proposals for tlie amalgamation of local bodies. The Minister expeets to return to Wellington toward the end of the week. Mr G. F. McAmpline" has been appointed clerk of the British House of Commons in succession to Sir Horace Dawkins, who resigned yesterday after 45 years spent in the service of the House. The Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, on behalf of members, paid a tribute to his services. — British Officia] Wireless. Lord Eustace Percy has been appointed Rector of King's College, Newcastle. Lord / Eustace Percy is also clmirnian cf the British Council for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. He has indicated that he will resign his seat in Parliament, and this will necessitate a by-election in the Hastings Division of Sussex. — Official Wireless. The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, is departing to-day for. a holiday to. South Aoierica, states a British Official Wireless message. Lady Hailslmm is accompanying him on this health voyage, in the course of whicb they will visit both Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. The appointmenf has been gazetted of five eommissioners ' ' for the care and custody of the Great Seal of the Realm ' ' during Lord Hailsham 's absenee.