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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 6

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* Mr A. E, Loach, secretary of the Associated Savage and Orphans' Clubs of New Zealand, left Christchurch on Saturday for a round of .visits to affiliated clubs in the North Island. Oaptain V. gugden, New Zealand Staff Corps, at present area officer at Blenheim, has been appointed adjutant of the 1st Canterbury Regiment. Mr A. Clark, district traffio manager of the Railways Department at Christchurch since 1931, has been. promoted to the position of district traffic manager at Dunedin to suceeed Mr H. L. Gibson, who is retiring. He will take over his new position on Oetober 4. Sir Kelso King, an Australian business mau, whose career started almost 70 years ago a jackaroo on a QueensJand pastoral station, was a passenger by the Ma/iposa which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday. His present visit is being made primarily to meet his daughter, who is returning from England by "way of Wellington. Dr James Ritchie, Cambridge, has been appointed medical superintendent of the Waikato Hospital in succession to Dr K. Mulcock, who has fesigned. Dr Ritchie is a New Zealander who was fonnerly a member of tbe teaching profession. He has the M.A. and B.Sc. degrees, in addition to medical degrees which he gaifted at Edinburgh University. Dr Ritchie was fonnerly superintendent of the Thames Hospital. The Rev, Canon W. S. Bean, who was viear of Addington from 1892 to 1933, a record period of service in one parish in the Canterbury Diocese, celebrated his eightieth birthday on fcjunday. Canon Bean, except for a visit of seven lnonths to England in 1905, has spent 79 years of liis life in New Zealand. He arrived at Lyttelton with his parents in the sailing ship Zealandia in 1858, three days after land had been sighted on his first birthday. Mr Lester Breakwell, formerly buyer for the Hawke's Bay Meat Co. at Dannevirke, who has taken up a position in Hastings with tlie Co-oporative Wliolesale Society, was farewelled at a gathering at Dannevirke of stock agents, auctioneers, drovers and farmers. A prcsentation of a fountain pen and pencil was made by Mr F. Selby. Messrs J. A. Hanna, S. Mitchell, L. V. James, J. Farquliarson, C. T. Elmore, E. Scrimshaw and N. Yortt also spoke and wished Mr Breakwell every success. Mr Breakwell expressed thnnks for ihe kind remarks anrl the feeling behiin1 the presentation.