PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Governor-General left Wellington by air yesterday afternoon for Nelson, where his Excellency is to undertake a number of engagements today. Tomorrow evening the GovernorGeneral will arrive at Christchurch, and on the following morning, accompanied by Lady Galway, his Excellency will proceed to Dunedin. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington on the morning of Thursday, September 1. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, is visiting Wellington. Mr L. Brinkman, manager of the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed manager of the Wellington branch. Mr E. F. Hemingway, Patea, has been re-elected chairman of the Wanganui Education Board. This will be Mr Hemingway’s sixth year of office. Mr J. L. Bruce, advance • manager for the Danny Malone Company, has arrived in Masterton to make final arrangements for the appearance of the company in the Opera House on Friday night. Mr T. McCord, a well known Wairarapa footballer, boxer and cyclist, will leave for Tauranga on Thursday, and will be entertained at a farewell gathering in the Savage Club rooms tomorrow night Major D. H. ,W. H. Donaldson has relinquished the post of assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general in the northern military district and is tobe attached to army headquarters. His position in the northern military district is to be filled by Major W. I. K. Jennings. Mr B. C. Gifford, accountant in the railway goods office at Wanganui, who has been transferred to Masterton to take charge of the goods department here, received a presentation from the staff recently. Mr Gifford was stationed at Wanganui for 18 years, and occupied various positions in the department. His successor at Wanganui is Mr G. Kenyon.

At the monthly meeting of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society votes of condolence were passed with the relatives of the late Mr McLaren and the late Miss Reynolds. Mr McLaren was an old member of the Society, and Miss Reynolds was sister to two members of the committee. A vote of sympathy was also passed with Mr Oswald Skeet, a member of the committee who at present is indisposed.

The desire of Sir Alexander Young to resign from the position of supervising dental surgeon to the Auckland Hospital Board at the end of the present financial year was intimated in a report to the hospital board. Sir Alexander, who was Minister of Health in the Coates and Coalition Governments, was appointed to his "present post in December, 1935, shortly after being defeated for. Hamilton seat, which he had held in Parliament since 1923.