PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 173, 9 August 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Mayor of Napier, Mr C. O. Morse, returned to Napier on Saturday_ after a visit to Wellington. Mr. T. R. Cresswell, chairman, Dr, J. W. McHwraith, and Mr, R. McGlasban, members of the Teachers' AppeaJ Roard, are to sit for two weeks in Auckland and in Napier. The Hon. W. E. Barnard, Member for Napier, left by the mail train this morning for Wellington, where he has been invited to address the Rotary Club. table The Rev. Fathers T. O 'Callaghan, L. 0 'Neill, W. Clarke and P, Flynn, students in Irish Seminaries, wero ordained priests for the dioeese of Auckland on Sunday, June 13, and are due to arrive in Auckland toward the end of November. Dr. J. R. Cameron, a Fennsylvanian aurgeon, arrived at Auekland by the Monterey from Los Angeles to mako a short visit to the Otago Medical Sihool, whose l'esearch into tumours has attracted his attention. Dr. Cameron is an old boy of Wellington Coliege, and is uow professor of oral surgery at Temple University, Philadelphia, Mr, F, S. Arthur, who for the past i'ew yea/s has been in charge of the vvool and produce department of the Dunedin branch of Daigety and Co., ljld., and has been appointed New Zealand representative in London on the xnternational Secretariat for Wool Publieity and Reseai'ch, is to leave Dunedin to-day, and will sail froiu Auckland by the Arawa on Saturda'y next. Mr. R, J. Mellroy, M.Sc., an old pupil of the Palmerston North Boys' High Bchool and Victoria Coliege, Wellington, aus been awarded the Chidiain Bchoiarciiip for post-graduate research at Birmingham University. England. Mr. Mcllroy, who was at. the Boys ' High ochool about eigl't or nine yeais ago, was subsequentiy associated wi'cli t... stafil of Massey Coliege before proceed ing Home. Mr. J. A. Bruce, A.N,Z.I.O.. has been appointed to the staffi of the' Dominion Fertiliser Co. For the last nine year,s Mr. Bruce has been engaged aa inspector of fertilisers with the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, and before that he waB for some years engaged m investigating eoil problems at the Cawthron Institute,. Nelson. Mr, Bruce is the author of many papers and articles dealing with the scientific aspect of farming and soil problems, and is recognised as one of the leading authorities in New Zealand on the chemistry of soil and fertilisers. He will take up his duties at Ravensbourne, Dunedin, almost immediately.