PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

V1CE-REGAL. i|iis Excellency the Governor-General is a visitor to Palmerston North this week. To-day he opened the Royal Show and to-night he will attend the annUal mess dinner of the Palmerston North Offlcers' Club, when he will speak on the history of the Life Guards, his own fegiment. ■ Mr A. D. Eoss has been elected a member of the committee of the Hastings brancli of the Hawke's Bay VVar iielief Association. The Rev. Kenneth S. Button, ot Wellington, has taken up duty as curate at 8t. Mary's Church, Auckland. Mr. Button, who has spent some years in England, returned to New Zealand with his father, Mr. R. L. Button. Mr. Arthur Douglass, pnncipal oi the New Zealand Friends' School, and Mrs. Douglass have returned to Wanganui from a live months' toiir abroad during which they visited the United States and England. Mr. E iiissell, headmaster of Mahora School, has receiVed advice from the . Education Board of his appointinent to the selection committee for the purpose of selecting candidates for adnlissiori to Training ; College nest year. The other members of the committee are the senior inspector and the secretary oi the H.B. Education Board. Eepresentatione from three eleetorates — Wairarapa, the new Wellington Suburbs, mnd Hutt and Petone — have been made to Sir Thomas Wilford asking him to allow himself to be a candidate at tho General Election. Sir Thomas has replied, statiiig that he is. unable at the present time to see His way to enter party politics. Messrs. -H. O. GoVan and M.k K. Boon, district land registrar and chiei clerk of the Stamps Department at Gisborne for several years, were tendered an informal farewell function by members of tlie Gisborne Law Society, .Mr. A. VT. Coleman, the president, . presiding. Compliments were paid to both officers, on the eve of their departure for New Plymouth and Wellington respectively. An opportunity was taken to welcome to Gisborne Mr. E. S. Molony, who has taken over from Mr. Gowan the duties of district. land registrar at Gisborne. The Rev. Stuart Ste^ens, pastof oi the Church of Chfist in Moorhouse avenue, Christchurch, has received an invitation to become minister of the Eumore Tabernacle, the principal church in Sydney of the denomination, as successoir to Dr. A. McKenzie Meldrum, M.A., D.D. Mr. Stevens has lived in Sydney and served several congregations there, having been in Christchurch since 1931. He is president of the Christchurch Ministers' Association and the North Cantefbury Christian Endeavour Union, and chairman of the Canterbury District Conf'erences for Cliurches of Chfist.