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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 6

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The Rt Hon J. G. Coates left Wellington for Auckland yesterday by air. The Rev Dr J .Kelly, formerly editor of the New Zealand “Tablet,” who has been on a visit to Europe, is due at Auckland on October 6 by the Mataroa.

The All Black five-eighth, J L. Griffiths, has been transferred from the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, to the Wanganui branch as relieving officer, and will take up his new duties on Monday week. The Right Rev Bishop Bennett, Bishop of the Anglican Maori Church, will be a visitor to Masterton next week. He will address an after church meeting in the Opera House on Sunday, September 18. Advice has been received, a Sydney cablegram states, that included in the birthday honours list of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is the name of Mr. Guy Johnston, Wellington, who is created Knight of the Order of OrangeNassau.

Mr C. A. R. Brunt, of the Palmerston North staff of the National Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed general secretary of the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild in succession to Mr H. P. Mourant. Mr Brunt holds the diploma in banking, and has had experience in the London office of the National Bank. e The death has occurred of Mr Edmund James Crisp, aged 75, says a Press Association message from Gisborne. Son of Captain Thomas Crisp, he was born in Auckland, and after a brief seafaring career, entered the legal profession at Gisborne, qualifying in 1884, since when he had been in continuous practice. He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. Advice has been received in Wellington of the appointment of Mr Clive McPherson, C.8.E., Melbourne, to a seat on the board of directors of the National Bank of Australasia, in succession to the late Sir Ernest Wreford. Mr McPherson recently resigned from the chairmanship of the Victorian Closer Settlement Association after more than five years’ service. He is managing director of Younghusband, Ltd., and the representative of the Commonwealth on the British Phosphate Commission. Mr Norman Davis, M.A. (N.Z.), B.A. (Oxon.), an Otago Rhodes Scholar, who has been lecturer in English in the university in Kaunas, Lithuania, during the past year, has received an appointment in the State University in Sofia. The post is a new one, arranged by the British Council, a subsidiary of the publicity section of the Foreign Office. In addition to university work, the position involves the general supervision of the teaching of English all over Bulgaria, and an endeavour to increase British influence in the Balkans.