PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20919, 26 September 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr A. E. Lawrence, of Timaru, is adjudicating at the annual festival of drama of the Manawatu area of the British Drama League this week. Mr W. J. Shanly, private secretary to the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, has resigned to take up an Administrative position at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Station, Wigram Aerodrome. Sir Louis Barnett, of Dunedin, has been appointed surgeon-in-chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in New Zealand, in succession to Dr. C. D Henry, of Wellington, who has resigned on account of ill-health. Dr. D. U. Strang has been appointed to the staff of the pathological department at the Auckland Hospital in succession to Dr. K. McNamara, who has resigned to take up a position in Australia. Mr H. L. Towers, president of the Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, and Mr W. J. Hindman, a member of the centre executive, visited Hamilton last night for the annual meeting of the Waikato Sub-Centre. IVJr Paul Falla, a son of Mr N. S. Falla, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, Limited, is being transferred from Warsaw, where he was a member of the British Embassy staff until its withdrawal, to the Turkish capital, Ankara. Mr David H. Graham, F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., of Christchurch, has been appointed by the Government to carry out an investigation into the cockroach pest which has been causing concern at tourist resorts in the North Island. Mr Graham has conducted many research undertakings in New Zealand, one of his most successful being that into the control of mosquitoes in the Auckland district.