PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. S. Adams, of Dunedin, who has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, will be stationed at Auckland, where he will be sworn in immediately after the Easter vacation. Mr. V. W. Russell, son of Mr. G. W. Russell, has been appointed associate to the new judge. The Rev. C. Strand, Methodist minister in charge of the Cape Egmont circuit, has been appointed to the Gonville circuit. The Rev. J. Harkness, who has been on missionary duties in Tonga for several years, has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Strand’s transfer. The changes are to take place early in April. The Rev. George A. Young has been appointed curate in the parish of St. Mary’s, New Plymouth, and arrived here -to take up his work last week. For about sixteen years the Rev. Mr. Young was a master in a private secondary school at Marton. He went away from New Zealand to the war with one of the late reinforcement drafts, and saw service in Europe for some time prior to the signing of the armistice. On returning to England he entered the Theological College, at Cheshurst, and was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of London in St. Paul’s Cathedral during last Advent, and sailed shortly afterwards for work in New Zealand, and has now settled in New Plymouth.