PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20511, 30 May 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Rev. J. D. Raine, of Whingamomona, has been appointed vicar of Ngaruawahia.

Archbishop O'Shea. Catholic Metropolitan of New Zealand, left Wellington by the Awatea on Friday night on a visit to Sydney. He expects tu re turn to Wellington on June SO.

Messrs W. H. Tooley (Christchurch), H. B. Sloane (Whangarei . C. S. B. Mitchell. R. Morrison. B. Redding (Wellington), F. H. Young. L. Munro, R. Hardy and J. L. G. Canadian Auckland) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. E. B. Drummond, who Is retiring as commodore of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, was farewelled at a gathering of the ex-Royal Naval Men s Association at Auckland on Saturday evening.

Mr J. McNair, district railway engineer for Canterbury and Westland, baa retired because of ill-health years’ service on railway worky-FVew Zealand. Mr McNair way"assistant engineer at Auckland from 1922 until In 1924 he was appointed district engineer at Invarcargill.

From all the New Zealanders in the Royal Air Force In Britain. Mr C. A. Turner, of New Plymouth, has been selected to return to the Dominion next year as a signalling specialist In the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Mr Turner, who Is 22 years of age, is a son of Mr and Mrs J. O. Turner, of New Plymouth.

The following judges have been appointed for the Wellington competitions:—lnstrumental, Mr Ernest .Tenner, Christ church; voral. Mr John T. Leech, Dunedin; elocution. Mr Walter Russell-Wood. Dunedin: danc ine. Miss Rons Vaughan. Christchurch: national dancing. Miss Muriel Waugh, Christchurch.

Mr W. Goodfellow. of Auckland, has accepted the position of chapman of the Dominion central committee, which is organising the £300.060 Cen tenary Thanksgiving Fund of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, and is planning to 'spend the greater part of June, visiting the principal centres to confer and assist committees that have been established.