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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 272, 30 August 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Bishop of Dunedin (the Rt. Rev. W. A. R. Fitahett) passed through Ashburton on the south-bound 1 express train this morning.

Brigadier James Emery, of Wellington, will arrive in Ashburton to-morrow to conduct the Ashbui-ton Salvation Army Band festival during the weekend. He will be accompanied by Envoy Bridge, a vocalist.

Mr Randal Withell, formerly resident in Ashburton County, who has been in business in Elkader, lowa, U.S.A., for the last 17 years, is on a visit to Ashbui’ton and is the guest of Mr J. Brown, Oak Grove.

At the annual meeting of the Ashburton Soldiers’ Club last evening reference 1 to the death of Mr W. R. Tucker was made, and a vote of syinpathy with the l’elatives was carried in silence

Mrs I>. MacPherson, M.A., who has been headmistress of the Craighead Diocesan Girls’ School, Timaru, for the past five y f/ai’s, has tendered her resignation to the Bishop of Christchurch and Diocesan Board of Education. She will return to England at the end of the school year

Mr S. G. MacfarJane, of Ashburton, has been re-elected president of the New Zealand Basketball Referees’ Association and Miss R.. F. C. Tyndall has been appointed secretary in place of Mr R. J. Thompson who held office during 1934-35 the first year of the association’s activities.

Several changes in the staff of the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Ltd, xvere announced yesterday. Mr E. A. Sevier, general lxianager for New Zealand since 1929, has been pi'omoted to an executive position in the head office in Melbourne, xvhere he will be attached to the pei'sonal staff of the managing director (Mr E. A. Callanan) who is at present in Wellington. The new general maixager for New Zealand will he Mr J. H. Lindon, formerly sales maixager for the company in New South Wales, but for the last three years attached to the head office, Melbourne. Mr E. Angus Jones, formerly branch manager at Christchurch and at Wellington, who went to take up an appointment in Australia several months ago, has been appointed assistant general manager for New Zealand. Mr Sevier was branch manager at Auckland, and held important posts in the company’s Australian organisation before being appointed general manager for New Zealand.