PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Wellington Education Board has been formally notified hv the Department that Mr. A. N. Burns, M.A., succeeds Mr. Stuckey (in the Wairarnpa) on the inspectorate, and that Mr. (ieo. MacMorran has been appointed a temporary inspector for one month. Mr. J. A. Eraser, assistant land registrar at (.'liristchmvii, lias been appointed distict land registrar nt Nelson, in succession to Mr. R. 11. Bourkc, who lias been appointed deputy-commissioner of stamps at Duncilin. Mr. Eraser's position at Chrifiteliurch will he filled by Mr A. H. Fletcher, of the Auckland office. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), Mr. Justice (jhapman, Sir John Fimllay' K.C.. and Lady Findlay, Mr. and Mrs' M. Myers, and Messrs V. Levi and H. M. Schramm, who have been in Stratford during the hearing of the election petition, will return to Wellington to-day. Sir William Fraser, Minister of Public Works, stated in Wellington yesterday that he expected to vacate office about the end of the month At present he was busy attending' to many matters of detail and cleaning up generally. The members of the Baptist Church, New Plymouth, have united in a Ueavtv and unanimous invitation to the Rev. A. H. Collins, from Australia, to become their minister. Mr. Collins, on the completion of his college course in the Old Land, was for a few vcars the pastor of a. Baptist Church in 'Birmingham, where considerations of health led him to come to New Zealand, and upon arrival here he accepted the charge of the Church at. Ponsonby, Auckland, and whilst there, owing to the interest he manifested in labor matters, was appointed as the lirst chairman of the Auckland Conoilintion Board. After leaving that city he went to Australia, and for the last eleven or twelve years has been the minister of one of the larger Baptist Chnirohes in South Australia. To the great regret of his congregation, he recently relinquished his office, and has come across to New Zealand to visit a daughter and some friends resident here, and having received the very pressing and urgent call from New Plymouth has decided to remain in the Dominion- Mr. Collins is a very effective speaker, and the members of the local Baptist Church are to he congratulated upon having secured the services of so broad-minded and able a preacher, and may very hopefully look forward to a period of growth and prosperity.