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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 117, 16 April 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr C. H. Denney lias been appointed to be mining controller for the purpose of last year's Mining Emergency Regulations in place of Mr Justice Tyndall, of the Arbitration Court. Sporting circles in Hastings have lost a valuable administrator by the sudden death of Mr E. J. Wall. He was a foundation member of the Hawke’s Day Wrestling Association and later was one of the founders ol the Pioneer Wrestling Club. He was well-known in the activities of the Hawke’s Day Doxing Association. Mr I. D. Hubbard, M.A.. Dip. Education, has l>ecn appointed headmaster of the Ohakitne District High School, in succession to the late Mr T. A. Dlyth. Mr Hubbard was trained in Otago and was for 18 years in the teaching profession there. He has been headmaster of the Newtown School, Wellington, since the beginning of 1939. Mr A. G. Silk, who went to Australia from Auckland some months ago, has been appointed official cinematographer and photographer to the Australian Imperial Forces overseas. Mr ’Silk, who is aged 23, has been described by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Information (Mr It. G. Menzics) as a man of outstanding capacity and promise. The death has occurred in Masterton of Mr Thomas Wyeth, of Lansdowne, at the age of 91. Mr Wyeth, who was born in Wellington in 1849, went to Masterton 65 years ago, and entered into the sawmilling business with the late Mr A. McLeod. He and his brother, the late Mr Charles Wyeth, carried the materials for the first telegraph line from Wellington to Masterton in 1867 across very poor roads. He was also engaged on clearing the way across the Rimtitakas for the Upper Hutt-Feathcrston section of the Wcllington-Wairarapa railway. At a meeting of tbc Hokowhitu School Committee, last evening, the resignation of Mr C. Havdon, first assistant, was received, as he has accepted a position at the Taomii School. The chairman (Mr 11. W. Cox) stated that Mr Haydon came to the school in 1924 when it was opened. “His record as a teacher is a very good one,” commented the chairman, who proposed that Mr Haydon’s services lie placed on record, and this was agieed to. Mr G. A. Melville said that Mr Haydon must hold the record for any school teacher in New Zealand as far as 100 per cent, of passes in the proficiency examination were concerned. lie had also done well in sport with the school teams. Mr J. If. Hall (Assistant-Director of Publicity), who lias been appointed war correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces overseas, is one of the Dominion’s best-known journalists. Ho was educated at the Gore High School and Otago University, taking his M.A. degree and the Diploma in Journalism. He started in journalism in Invercargill. He was editor of the Christchurch Sun from 1927 to 1933, and from 1933 to early in 1937 was editor of the Dominion. That year he loft to go abroad, and subsequently became attached to the Secretariat of the League of Nations at Geneva for a priod of six months. He returned to New Zealand hist year to take over the post of publicity manager for the New Zealand Railways, from which he was transferred to his present position just after the outbreak of war.