PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr A. C. Wells, radio inspector in Auckland, has been elected unopposed as telegraph representative on the Post' and Telegraph Appeal Board. The death occurred ill "Wellington recently of Mr Arthur Guise, aged 84, < who was secretary of the Loyal Antipodean of Oddfellows for 40 years. The Air Ministry announces that the New Zealander Squadron-Leader A. McKee, Oxford, lias been promoted to wing-commander, states a London cab.egram. Mr C. Firth, of Wellington, who delivered an address to clie Manawatu branch of the Royal Society, last evening, was tile guest of Dr. T. R. Vernon during his visit. Mr D. S. Broughton, who lias .been stationmaster at Woodville for the past two years, received word yesterday of his transfer on promotion to Lyttelton. His successor will bo Mr E. Orr, of Wellington. Mr Broughton expects to take up- liis hew position in about a week’s time The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr R.' G. Menzies) last night an-

nounced the appointment of Sir Keith Murdoch as Director-General of Information. He will probably supersede Sir Henr-. Gullett, who is at present acting-Minister of Information. Sir Keith, who is managing director of the (Melbourne Herald and Weekly Times, was an Australian war correspondent in the Great War. Alter serving the Church of England for more than 30 years, Canon E. H. Strong, formerly warden of §t. John’s College, Auckland, left for Australia to-day. He has accepted the appointment of rector of the Cathedral of Rockhampton, Queensland. Among other offices lie held in. New Zealand, Canon Strong is a former chaplain of both King’s College and .the New Plymouth Boys’ High School.

.The death occurred in Milton yesterday of Dr. Thomas Fergus, a wellknown Dunedin surgeon'; says a Press Association message. Dr. Fergus was educated at the Otago Boys’* High School, and after going through his coufso at Otago University gained the degree of F.R.C.S. at the University of Edinburgh. He saw "service in the last war both on hospital ships and in England, and it was while he was in England that - lie began to specialise in amputation and the fitting of artificial limbs. Dr. Fergus was till recently in charge of the Army Medical Board in, Dunedin. - . • •