PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

VICE-REGAL. Tbe Governor-Generai and Lady Galwpy, accqmpanied by Captain R. Stuart French, Lieutenant Sir Standisk Eoche, and Mrs, Arthur Purvis, left Wellington via. Taupo for Auckland. Lord alway will return to Wellington on Wednescjay next, and will leave direct on tbe followlng evening for Auckland, where Their Excellencies will go into residence for some weeks. ( llr H, B, Duekworth has been reeiected president of tbe Canterbury Manufacturers ' Association, Mr E. W. McVilly bas been reelected president of tbe New .Zealand Amateur Atbletic Association. Mr F. J. Callan> Gbief officer of tbe Wairuna, bas been apppiuted third pilot fpr the pprt of Bluff. There werp 26 applicant.s fpp the positiqii, Dr. G. H. Tewsley bas been appoiiitecj cliairmaa of tbe Auckland medical stftff of tbe St, John Ambuiftnee Assqciation aud U membci' of tbe executive. / The appointment pf Mr E. J. Price, formerly town clerk of Taihape, to the position of town clerk of Takapuna, was made at a special meetiag of tbe Takapuna Borougb Council recently. Mr Alan Rutherford, a pilot memher of tbe New Plymouth Aero Club, will leave for Engiaud npxt WCpk tp take up a position witb the Anglo-Persign Cil Cpmpany. Captain W. G, Gentry, New Zealand Staff Corps, Army Hegdquarters, Wellington, left from Wellington by the Tamarpa, lg.st night for "Englund to ppend two years at the staff college. Camberley, Gordon Grant, of the Brooklyn School, WeiTington, left by the Aorangi pn his way to London as an interchange teacher on the London unattached staff. The secretary-treasnver pf tbe Auck.T land Transport Bpgrd, Mr W, St. jj, Clgrke, is rptiring on superannua|ipn t'rppi his ppsiti,pn, Mr Clgrfee hg,s been asspeiated with ihe t?UW ways seryice for 39 and his retirement wi!! eommencp a,bQut June, 1938, Major Sir Prederi,ck Pile, whp from 1928 to 1932 was Assistant Director of Mecbunisation at tbe War Offipe, and until last year commanded the Oanal Brigade in Egypt, bas been appointed Gommander of "tbe first anti-aircraft Diviision of tbe Territorial Army^ gtates a British Offieial Wireless message. Messrs Artbur Marshall und W. W, Wil§Qn, twp cbief oflcials. of tbp Ppst and Telegrapb Department, are ubput to retire, bgiving Gompleted 4Q ygarg' serviqe. Mr Ivfaushall is dirpctgr of gq, counts, a position whicb involves the eontrol ler ship of tbe Post Qfiice Sayings Bank fpr New Zealand. Mr Wilspn % cbief inspectQr fpr New Zealand, Inspeetor D. Cameron, who wag recently transferred to tbe position of inspeetor in gharge of the Napier distriet, was bade farewell by members of the Dunedin poliee district on Monday. Tbe large gathering was presided pver by Superintendent Eawle, wbo presented Inspeetor Cameron with a gpld wristlet watph and Mrs Cameron with an attacbe case pa bebalf of thp Duner. din fprce, Captain A. M. Hamilton, of the Royal Engineers, a New Zealander, and tbe aut'hor pf "Road Through Nurdistan, ' ' arrived at Dpnedin on Tuesday in the Maunganui. Captain Hamilton is a civil engineer, He is a graduate of Canterbury IJniversity College, and he bas been in Egypt, Palestine, and Transjordan. Mr Jobn Talbot, of Gisborne, a recent graduate of St. John's College, Auckland, arrives in Napier pn December 16 and will be brdained on Depember 19 at St. Augnstine's Angli,can Chureh as a deacon, He will act as asisistant to tbe Rev. S« R- Gardiuei^ vicar pf (3t, Angustinp's, Mr Hamjpra Rangiibu, oi th§ Hastings Maayi ciergy, wiR b§ prdained pripst.