PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lieutenant L. G- Goss has been appointed to_ -,' he Palmerst'on North Defence Headquarters. Mr. Justice Stringer, president of the Arbitration Court, arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday night to preside over n silting of the Court here, which opens at 10 o'clock this morning. A sable from Sydney says Messrs. \V. .A. llo'man (formerly Premier of New South Wales), G. Flannery, and A. Thomson, have been admitted aa King's Counsel.

Mr. David Carter, manager for the Union Steam Ship Company at Fiji, has been appointed to manage the Newcastle branch. Tie will be succeeded at Fiji by Mr. A J. Soutar, manager at Devonport, Tasmania.

Mr. J. M'. Somcrville, chief chemist for the Colonial Sugar Refining' Company at Auckland, has retired after 32 (•ears in the service, of which 27 were spent at Chelsea.

Several changes in the staff of the Bank of Australasia are announced. Mr. A. S. Browne- has been transferred from Invercargill to Wanganui, Mr. W. h Ward from Wanganui to Wellington (vice Mr. A. W. Butt, who is retiring on pension), and Mr. A. H. Myles from Bathurst (X.K.W.) to Dunedin. ■ Mr. E. A. Shrimplon. chief telegraph engineer of the Post and. Telegraph Department, who, under the new arrangement made ]>v the Cabinet, is to be. responsible to the Minister for the control of the enaineering branch of the Department, was born at Timaru 51 years ago. He commenced dutv in the Department at Timaru in ISS2, and in ISftS joined the engincerins'branch as assistant mechanician at Wellington. In 100.-, he became assistant engineer at Chri.'tehurch. Subnequently he was assistant engineer at Auckland, and district telegraph engineer at Wellington. Oe-.vrnl Bramwcll Booth, head of the Salvation Army, is due to arrive i'.i Wellington by the Moeraki from Sydney on June 7. He will remain in the Dominion until June 25, when he will leave by the Niagara. The General will be accorded a civic reception in the Wellington Town Hall on June 8, and that night he will leave for Ciu-istchurch. There lie will also be accorded a civic reception and will remain until June 12, when he will leave for Dunedin. He will remain in the Southern city over Sunday, and on Mondav. June 14, will leave for Phristchurch and Wellington. The General will arrive in Auckland on June 20.

His Excellency the Governor-General and three members of the Prince of Wales' staff (Captain Dudley North, Lord Claud Hamilton, and Lord Louis Mountbatten), who left Wellington for the Wairarapji on Monday, and spent ceveral days deer-stalking on Mr. William Barton's White Rock station, returned on Thursday night. Today their Excellencies the Gov-ernor-General and the Countess of Liverpool will leave Wellington for Christchurch in order to take farewell of the Prince of Wales, when His Royal Highness embarks on the Renown at Lyttelton next Friday on his way to Australia. The Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool will bo leaving during the month of June for the Old Country after seven years' residence in New Zealand,. Mr. E. Dingle, who held the position ef president of the Stratford A. and PAssociation in 1910, when the association was established, and again last venr, and has ihronghout been an un-. tiring worker on its behalf, was presented wijh a,beautiful illuminated address at tlie annual meeting of the association on Saturday afternoon. The new president, Mr. G." Sangster, in making the presentation, referred to Mr. Dingle's splendid record of service for the association, and said that no one was more deserving of recognition than Mr. Dingle, because he had put his whole heart ,and soul into the work. Mr. Dingle thanked the members for the presentation ai'id said it came as a great surprise to him. He had done his best for the association and nothing more, but he had done it because he loved the work. The address was beautifully executed, and it would always be one of his most treasured possessions. Although he was now living in New Plymouth it was not his intention to forget the assoeintiiv. and he would continue (o take an «'tive interest in its affairs mid help whenever he could. When he (tempted the position of president he recognised it was his dutx to work for the association and he felt gratified that the members had appreciated his efforts.