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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 30, 29 October 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

l)r. W. Saddler, proi'essor of mathematics at Canterbury Umver§ity College, has been appointed dean oi tlie iaculty ot science at the college. Mr J, T. Bryant, of Matangi, Waikato, who has been visiting Great Britain and Europe, was a passenger on the Ruahine^ which arrived at Wellington this week. c Mr. G. R. J. Hope, of the Treasury Department, lel't Auckland by tbe Awatea for ISydney to-day 011 his way to London, where lie will take a positiou in the High Commissioiier's officq, Mr. Francis A. Holmes, of Wyggeston Grammar Bcliool, Leicester, Eugiand, has been appointed to a position at Wellington Conege. He is to excJiange uext year with Mr. A. N- B. AlcAioon, a meiiiber of- the Wellington College staff. Captain R. Harrisou, D.S.O,, li.D., R.N.R.^ has been appointed commander of the Stratheden. Captain Iiarrison, who is the commodore of the P. and O. fleet, has recently commanded tlie Strathmore and will sail on the Stratheden, leaving London on December 2'4 cn her maiden voyage to Australia. Tho foliowing have been returned as the executive of the Auckland Council of the Federation of Labour at the lirst election of permanent ofiicers: Messrs T. Anderson (Seamen's Union), F. Craig (TimberworKers '), T. Stanley (General Labourers'), J. Liddell and T. vVhitow (Tramways), J. G. Kennerlee (Carpenters' and Joiners'), F. W. Egerton (Musicians').

Tho appoiutment of Mr L- G. Tuck to be Assistant-Commissioner of Stamp Duties was announced in the Gazette issued at Wellington last night, Mr Tuck has also heen appointed AssistancKegistrar of Companies, Eegi-stiar ot Building Societies, Registrar of lndustrial an-d Provident Sccieties, and As-sistant-Registrar of Inccrporated Societies at Wellington from. November 1. At the annual conference of the New Zealand Government Valuers' Institute at Wellington, the foliowing officers were elected: Presidentt Mr N. H. Mackie, Palmerston North; -vice-presi-dents, Messrs A. W. Sweetman, Auckland, A. F. Blackburn, South Auckland, E. Eggleston, Christchurch^ G. T. Thornton, Wellington, J. A. Wilson, Dunedin, G. L. Ewen, Palmerston North; secretary, Mr W. G. Boswell. Auckland; treasurer, Mr T. H. Crosbie, WelJingtou; executive, Messrs A. F. Blackburn, E. EgglestQu, V. E. Lough, and A. W. Sweetman, Among the original charter inerabers of the Loyal Gisborne Lodge of OddI'ellows, who attended tlie 63rd anniversary l'unction at Gisborne this week, | was Mr. John Mogridge, of Marton, oue qf the oldest pressmen in New Zea. land, one of the earliest members of tho machine room staff of the Hawke's Bay Herald, Poverty Bay Herald, and one-time proprietor of the Waipawa Mai!. Mr. Mogridge is one of the oldest Oddfellows in the Dominion. In*63 years of membership in Oddfellows Lodges Bro. Mogridge, P.G., has only (irawo six weeks' sick pay-