PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 2 July 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr D. J. Barrett, formerly of Whangarei, who lias been ft clerk in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North for the past twelve months, has been transferred to Hamilton, and will leave next week to take up bis duties there. He will be replaced by Mr N. N. Dyer, of Hastings, a new appointee to the staff of the J ustice Department. Professor F. L. W. Wood, of Victoria University College, who is president of the League of Nations Union of New Zealand, has accepted an invitation from the Secretariat of the League of Nations to be present at Geneva during the meeting of the League Assembly in September as temporary collaborateur on the secretariat. He will leave for Europe at tho ond of'July.

The death occurred recently at Auckland of Mr William Herbert Brabant, aged 73. For the past 17 years Mr Brabant resided in Auckland, where ho retired in 1921. He was in the service of the Bank of New Zealand, and before going to Auckland was stationed at Napier, Wanganui, and other towns. The late Mr Brabant is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs Ji. Hunter, of Auckland, and Mrs Eric Kenny, of Eketahuna.

Coronation medals have been awarded to the following holders of the Victoria j Cross, according to a gazette announce;ment last night:-—Lieut. C. R. G. Bassett, Auckland; Major-General B. C. Freyberg, London; Lieut. J. G. Grant, I Auckland; Captain R. S. Judson, Auckland; Lieut. 11. J. Laurent, Hawera; Captain P. V. Stalkey, Melbourne. A Coronation medal has also been granted Miss E. Fitzgerald, of the High Commissioner’s Office, London. Professor D. B. Copland, dean of tho faculty of commerce in the University of Melbourne, and formerly of Christchurch, has been invited to accept a visiting professorship of economics at the University of Minnesota, one of the leading State unversities in the United States. The invitation is for the period from September, 1938, to March, 1939, and the council of Melbourne University has approved of its acceptance. Professor Copland was present at the Harvard tercentenary celebrations last year, and has been invited to visit Japan.

Clients of the Bank of New Zealand from all parts of Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty districts tendered a complimentary dinner to Mr J. M. Roberts, manager of the Rotorua branch of the hank, on the occasion of his retirement after 44 years’ service with the bank. Many tributes were paid to Mr Roberts’s locality and efficiency as an officer of. tlie bank, and to his courtesy and sympathy in his dealings with the public. As a mark of the respect, esteem! and affection, not only of those present, I hut of many more unable to attend, Mr F. Goodson, who presided, presented. Mr Roberts with an illuminated ad-j dress and a cheque. j