PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. W. C. Green, who has been ill, was welcomed back at a meeting of the Opunake Electric Power Board yesterday. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, M.P., and Mr. Johannes C. Andersen, have been appointed members of the Maori Purposes Board. Miss Cara Hall, the brilliant young Wellington pianist, who has been continuing her musical studies at the Royal College of Music, London, has returned to Wellington. • Dr. T. H. Jagusch has been appointed part time medical officer to the Royal New Zealand Air Force flying training school at Bell Block in succession to Colonel P. C. Davie, who has been appointed to No. 7 field ambulance, Trentham. Major L. C. Forgie, accountant of the Centennial Exhibition Company, was appointed secretary of the company at a recent meeting of the directors. He takes the place of Colonel H. E. Avery, who resigned to take up a military appointment. Mr. W. A. Laing, who has been Postmaster at Opunake for over 11 years. is to retire at the end of the present month,, having completed a lengthy terrn of service with the Post and Telegraph Department. With Mrs. Laing, he will take up residence next month at Heretaunga.

Mr. C. E. MacCormack, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, is to retire at the end of September. He has been a Judge of the Native Land Court since 1906. His son. Dr. Kenneth MacCormack, is in England with the second echelon of the Expeditionary Force, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Mr. F. Hooker, representative of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce, on the North Taranaki Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union was welcomed at the meeting of the executive yesterday by the chairman, Mr. H. E. Blyde, who referred to the benefits to each organisation of the reciprocal interchange of representation. Mr. William Edward Bush has been appointed by the directors of the South British Insurance Company, Limited, to succeed Mr. J. J. Kingston, as manager of the Auckland branch of the company. Mr. Kingston will retire on September 30, and Mr. Bush. who has been chief clerk at the branch office for the last 24 years. will take up his new duties on October 1. It is announced that the Rev. H. G. Taylor, vicar of Kaitaia, has joined the New Zealand military forces as a chaplain. Mr. Taylor graduated with the degree of B.A. at Auckland University College and took orders at St. John's College. He was latet- curate at St. j Barnabas' Church, Mount Eden, and I afterward vicar of Bombay and chaplain to St. Stephen's College. For a year I before going to Kaitaia he was assistantpriest at St. Simon's, Bethnal Green, in the East End of London.