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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 64, 8 December 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Rev. N, S. Barnett, vicar oi Tinui, has accepted the cure of BulkBongotea. The Eev. B. R. White, at preseat vicar of Bulls-Rongotea, has beeu appointed vicar of Pahautanui. Monsignor J. F. MacManus, of Palmerston Horth, is returning to New Zealand by the Rangitane, due at Wellington on December 15. The Eev. Father Minogue, formerly of Waipawa, has resumed his duties as parish priest at New Plyinouth after an absence of six months OAving to illhealth. He has made a good recovery. Mr A. L. Armstrong, formerly ot Fiji, who has been appointe'd agent and Consul under the Colonial Office at Tonga, sailed from Auckland tQ-day on the Matua. Mr H. B. Collett, of the Goldberg Advertising Pty., Ltd,, MeJbourne, has arrived on transfer to take qver an executive position with the Wellington branch of this company. Lieutenant-Colonel F. E. G. Forsyth, depuly-Lieutenant of the Oity and County of Aberdeen, is a passenger by -the Rangitane, due at Wellington on December 15 from London.^ Mr G. T. Edgar, has been appointed as city electrical engineer at Dunedin, in plaee of Mr M. C. Henderson, who retires in April next. Mr Edgar has been the assistant engineerSir Eiehard Eankine, K.C.M.G., British Eesident for the Zanzibar Protectorate since 1930, and Lady Eankine, formerly of Oamaru, are travelling to New Zealand by thfe Rangitane, which is due at Wellington from London on December 15. Messrs J. H. Webber and T. G, Fox, both of Hastings, have passed. their third professional and second professional sections re-spectively of" their medical examinations conducted by the New Zealand University. Canon D. B. Malcolm, vicar oi Hawera, has been appointed organiging secretary of the Centenary Appeil 1'und fflr a term of two years from March 1, 1938. He will remain vicar of Hawera and . will have leave of absence. Mr W. J. Forsyth, who has been District Publie Trustee in Dannevirke for the past 12 years, has received notice of his t.rapsfer to the same position at Nelson. His suecessor will be Mr L. Chatwin, of Wellington. The transfers will take place early in the New Year. General Sir Reginald Pinney, who is now in Ahstralia, is coming to New Zealand to' visit his son, Eobert Pinney, at Mihiwaka, near Dunedin. He commanded the 33rd. and 35th. Divi1 sions in France and was a colonel in the Eoyal Fusiliers when the late King was Colonel-in-Chief. Mr A. Fels, head of the foreign trade department of the Warga^ Chamber of Commerce, is to visit. New Zealand. He is at present in Australia and will remain there for two or three months. His intentipn is to study cpnditions here and in Australia with a view to bringing about inereased trade with Poland, Mr Martin C, Crighton, elerk to the Kaponga Town Roard, has been selecped as secretary by the Hawera Hospital Board. Chosen from 51 applicants, he will take over his duties about the middle of January from Mr Claude Harrison, the present managing-secre-tary, who has been appointed to a position at Eltham. Mr J. P. S. Merewether, accountant to the Dannevirke branch of. the oank of New South Wales, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to the poeition of accountant iu the Nqw Plymouth branch of the "bank. He wiU take up his duties in about a fortnight. His suecessor will be Mr N. P. Herbert, at present in the Wellington branch. * Mr D. L. Dowdell has expressed his desire to retire. from the position of general manager of the Orient Line, in Australia, a position he has fillod with success for 18 years. This) {ha.-^ been agreed to with great regret and is to take effect as from the end of the year. Mr A. W. Johnson, the present branch* manager in Sydney, who has been assoeiated with. thq company for 37 years, has been appointed general manager as from January 1, 1938. Mr L- J. Morshead has been appointed branch manager in Sydney, and Mr R. H. Norman, branch manager in Melbourne, both as from January 1 next.