PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL

Miss N. E. Bachelor, of the Masterton telephone exchange has been transferred to Wanganui. Mr. E. H. Andrews, a .member of the Christchurch City Council for the past 32 years, will be a candidate at the Christchurch mayoral election next May. Tlie director of the Dominion Museum, Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, has been advised by the council of the Society of Science and Industry of Fiji that he has been elected an honorary membei. Mr. A. J. Ockleston, formerly of Hobsonville, has been appointed to the senior lectureship in civil engineering at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg. Mr. Ockleston left New Zealand seven years ago as the first holdei of the Michael Hiatt Baker Scholarship and after obtaining his doctorate of philosophy at Bristol University, he lectured at Cardiff and Cape Town Universities.

Mr J. Hopkins, manager of the Hawaii Sings Company, which will appear in the Opera House tonight, is well known in Masterton, where ir the last war he conducted successful galas in aid of the patriotic funds. For a long period of years he was manager of the Madri Gras held at Napier during the Christmas .period and has piloted many prominent, theatrical companies through New Zealand. The Silver Medal for gallantry of the Bov Scout Association has been awarded to Scout lan Peach, Taumarunui. The Dominion Headquarters of the Boy Scout Association in Wellington announced yesterday that the Dominion Chief Scout, Lord Galway, had approved the award. A lad of 14, lan Peach distinguished himself during the February floods in the King Country this year. He plunged into the Wanganui River when it was in full flood, and swam with a lifeline 150 yards to a man of the name of Harland, marooned in a very dangerous position. The boy succeeded in reaching Mr. Harland, made fast the line and returned safely along it accompanied by the man he had saved. '