PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

VTCE-EEGAL. The Governor-General, Yiscount Galway, left Wellington to-day and will arrive in Auckland, via Taupo, on- Do.cember 5 or 6. On December 14 a reception and investiture will be held at Government House, Auckland. Mr H. H. Mackrell, city building inspector, has tendered his resignation to the Palmerston North City Couneil.

The Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and Mrs G. A. Maddison, returned to Hastings last evening, after spending a week in Dannevirke. Mr J. H. Chapman, accountant to the Otago Hospital Board, has been nppointed secretary to the Ashburton Hospital Board. * Mr Justice Morling, formerly of Napier and now Chief Justice at Westorn Wamoa, arrived at Auckland by 'the Matua on Monday to spend the Chrisfmas vacation in New Zealand. The death has' occurre/d at Wellington of Mr Thomas William Boon, l'jr the last two years trafiic manager and chief wharfinger of the Wellington Harbour Board. The Eev. A. T. B. Page, vicar of.« Seatoun, Wellington, who is retiring, will be tendered a farewell by his parishioners on Thursday evening, December 9. His successor will be the Kov. C. Willis, of Oxted, Surrey, England. Mr A. W. Gunson, examining officer of the Customs Department, Wellington, who has been trransferred to Napier, was bade farewell yest-erday afternoon by the staff of the Customs Department,. ( Mr C. Alma-Baker, of Batu Gojah, Malay States, who for many years has come to New Zealand for the big-gamo fishing at Eussell, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi from Sydney on Monday. Canon S. Parr, principal of Collogo House, Christchurch, and Mrs Parr lefi Auckland by the Aorangi yesterday on the first stage of a visit to England.They expect to be absent from the Dominion for about 14 months. Th-ed eath has occurred at Wellington of Mr John Edward Jenkinson, * member of the Legislative Couneil from 1891 to 1912, and a prominent figure in the political life of New Zealand over that period. Mr Eoy Murdoch, formeny a member of the literary staff of the Poverty Bay Herald, who has spent tlnjj past two years cruising the Pacific in tke ketch Te Eapunga, has joined the staff of the Daily Colonist, -^Victori-i, British Columbia. Mr E. K. Hale, excha-nge clerk at Gisborne, has received notice of his cransfer to Waipukurau. He will leavo for his new post shortly. Mr Hale has been stationed in Gisborne sinee April of this year. The Eev. Father E. Mattimoe, of the Franeiscan Fathers, Sydney, arrived at Auckland on Monday. He will assist in missionary work connected with the latholic centenary to be celebrated aext year. and will be in New Zealand for about four months. A Sydney cable records the death of the veteran professional golfer, Dan G. Soutar, following an operation, peritonitis supervening. Mr Soutar, wha was 55 years of age,- won the Austra--lian and State golf championships in 1903 and 1904 respectively. He turnea professional in 1905 and won the open championship in the same year.

Lieutenant L. H. William s, formerfy of Waipare, Gisborne, who recently rosigned from the Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners ' Field Company in Mandalay, Upper Burma, returned on holiday by the Aorangi, which arrived at Auckland on Monday. He has been absent from the Dominion for seven years, and will-return to a survey post in India in about fbur months. Professor J. Eankine Brown, whoso retirement from the New Zealand Untversity Senate was announced on Monday, is on a holiday visit abroad. ffe( left in August to visit the United Kingdom and Germany and is at . present in Germany. His intention is to return to Wellington about the end of February or the beginning of March to continue hie duties as Professor of Classics at Victoria University Collego. Mr A. L. Moore, director of technical education at the New Plyinouth Boys' High School, leaves New Plymouth in about a fortnight for an extended tour abroad during which he intends to irivestigate some aspecto of education particularly in the branch in which he is most concerned. He intends to visit Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, and to return via America. Mr Moore has been granted a year's ieave of absence and he will resume his duties at the New Plymouth High School at tho beginning of the first term in 1939. Mr A, O. Eussell, district manager at Christchurch for the Australian Mutuai Provident Society, will retirc shortly on superannuation, after 44 years service. Mr -Euesell, who joinGd tho serviee at Hobart in 1893, was district manager of the society on the west coast of Tasmania in the early mining days. He has been in New Zealand for almost 30 years, first being stationed at Nelson. He was district manager at Napier for 15 years, and at Wanganui for five years. Before going to Christchurch six years ago ho had spent a year in the Dunedin branch.