PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Miss Judy Ruddock, of Napier, left by car to-day for Eotorua. Superintendent W. G. Gilbgrd, of the Napier Central Fire Brigade, left this mormng for Wellington, where he will spend his annual leave. Miss K. Price, of Napier, left for Wellington this morning, where she will join the Awatea on a holiday trip to Sydney and Melbourne. Flying Officer E. A. Moen and Flying Officer J. R. C. Killan, Christchurch, have been aecepted to serve sliort-ser-vice commissions in the New Zealand Air Force. Sir Henry Britten Brackenbury, of London, a noted authority on the medical aspect of national health insurance, who has been the guest of Dr. and Mrs It. Cashmorc, Hastings, left with Lady Brackenbury for Wellington this mornmg. Mr C. E. Critchley, who is to succced Mr R. H. Nesbitt as Australian Trade, cmmissioner in New Zealand, is at present enjoying a few months' furlough in Sydney after serving for some years at Batavia. Mr Critchley will probably take up his duties at AVellington early in the new year. Mr C. R. Knowles, who for a iiumber of years has filled the position of secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been appointed private secretary to the Leader of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Mark Fagan. Since joining the Government service in 1921, Mr Knowles has been associated with three successive SpenV ers of the House, his service including three years with the late Hon. Sir Frederic Lang. Throughout the tcrm of oilice of the Hon. Sir Charles- Statham, M.L.C., he was Speaker 's secretary, and, until his recent promotion, acted in a similar capacity with the present Speaker, the Hon. W. E. Barnard, member' for Napier. Mr Clive Morton, Auckland, succeeds Mr Knowles as secretary to the Speaker.