PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21246, 17 October 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr C. A. Barrell, M.P. for Hamilton, left for Wellington last night by j the limited express. Mr John Hopkins, the well-known I theatrical manager, was a visitor to j Hamilton to-day. Messrs E. Carroll (Rotorua) and F. D. Aplin (Auckland) are at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr H. D. Caro, Mayor of Hamiltqn, and Mr T. G. Reynolds were appointed the Hamilton Borough Counrepresentatives on the Waikato Airport Board, when a meeting of the council was held last night. The Rev. Percy Paris, for six years minister at Wesley Church and chairman of the Wellington Metho- 1 dist District and formerly of Hamil- i ton, has accepted a hearty invitation to remain in his present charge for j a seventh year. Mr L. Pickering, the Hamilton gas 1 engineer, was granted permission, at a meeting of the Hamilton Borough’; Council last night, to attend the New j Zealand Gas Institute’s annual con- : ference in Blenheim on November 12. The Rev. A. Russell Allerton, vicar of St. Thomas’, Freeman’s Bay. has been appointed chaplain to j the Air Force at Hobsonville. Mr I Allerton served in the Great War, 1 enlisting with the Artists’ Rifles in England, and later receiving his I commission with the King’s Liverpool Regiment. He was awarded the Military Cross, and was wounded in i j March, 1918. After the war he took i ! a course of training at Ely Theologij cal College, and came to New Zea- ‘ land iu 1929. |