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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr E. R. Chesterman, who was on the teaching staff of the Southland Boys’ High School, has left to take up a position at Nelson College.

The new Consul-General for Germany in New Zealand, Herr Ernst C. Ramm, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Otranto, a cablegram reports. .r Messrs S., Hatch, S., Slater, : M. Munn, K. Christie, of Canterbury College, and Mr L. Taylor, of Otago University, are spending the vacation in Masterton. Mr W. H. Scott, M.Sc., A.M.1.C.E., of the engineering staff of the Wellington City Corporation, has been appointed engineer-clerk to the Selwyn County Council, Canterbury. Mr W. Mouat, for some •■years past goods clerk at the Masterton Railway Station, has left on promotion for Wellington. Mr B. C. Gifford, of Wanganui, has succeeded him here. News has been received that Mr B. M. Temple, late of Masterton, and now of Imperial Airways, England, has been transferred to Cairo and the Eastern Division after spending a period of two years in England. The Hon Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, who travelled to Auckland on Tuesday, and while there addressed a young people’s gathering, returned to Wellington today, accompanied by Mrs Hamilton. Mr R. E. Peachey, who has been a master at the Newtown School for 11 years, has been transferred to the Point Chevalier School. Auckland, and will leave tonight to take up his new position. Mr T. D. M. Stout was elected president of the Wellington-Taranaki-Hawk'e’s Bay Division of the New Zealand Branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society at the annul meeting held in Wellington yesterday. Mr H. Wainscott, who has been on the staff of the Masterton Railway Station for many years, left this morning on prom'otion to take up the position of stationmaster at Patea. His place in Masterton as shift clerk has been taken by Mr A. W. Hearle. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Mr Roswell Magill, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, a New York cablegram states. Mr Magill is credited with shaping many of the New Deal fiscal and tax policies. He is to resume his professorship of Law at Columbia University. The death occurred at Otaki last week of Mr Arthur Alexander Mitchell, who was born at Taratahi in 1864. The late Mr Mitchell was educated at the Wellington and Nelson Colleges, and later married Miss Emma Kempton, daughter of the late Mr Thomas Kempton. of Greytown.

Forty-one years ago Constable D. C. Fraser started to walk his beat in Auckland. Yesterday morning he returned as superintendent of the Auckland police district. He has been superintendent of police in Wellington since 1936 and is due to retire on superannuation next year. “No man has ever left behind such a permanent monument to his work on this earth,” said the Mayor, referring at the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society yesterday to the death of Sir Truby King, founder of the Society. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect. Sympathetic reference to the death of Mrs W. B. Chennells was made by the president, Mrs J. Caselberg at the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society yesterday. The late Mrs Chennells, said Mrs Caselberg, had freely given time and money to “save the babies and help the mothers.” Members stood in silence as an expression of their sympathy.