PERSONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. F. Jones of Defence and Postmaster-General) was a passenger on the south-bound express this morning. A cable message states- that- Lester Stoefen, the well-known tennis player, was married at Holywood on Thursday to Miss Ruth Moody, a cinema actress. George Lott, another tennis star, was best man. The Auckland Milk Council yesterday appointed as bacteriologist and technical adviser at £350 a year, rising to £SOO, Air W. O'. Neil, at* present manager of the Toa Toa Dairy Factory, in the Opotiki County. Now aged 27, Mr Neil was formerly a lecturer at Alassey College. Telegraphic advice that the Alinister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) will visit Ashburton next Thursday was received by the “Guardian” this morning from Air H. E. Herring, ALP 1 ., who is in Wellington. The Alinister has commenced a tour of the northern half of the South Island. He will inspect the Hampstead drainage area and the County irrigation district during his Ashburton visit. Air Semple will go to Levels and Timaru on Friday. t The Rev. H. D. W. Knights (vicar of Rakaia), who has had eight years, experience on Hospital Boards in Westland and in England.,' has offered his services to the Ashburton County Council for appointment to the seat on the Ashburton Hospital Board, which has become vacant by the death of Mr G. S. Hardy. The council will make an appointment at its next meeting, after it has received official advice of the vacancy from the Hospital Board. Air W. G. Alorrison, a graduate of Canterbury University College Engineering School, will leave England shortly for Egypt as representative of AVes-t’s Rotinoff Piling and Construction Company for their second season’s work on the remodelling of the Assiut barrage. The company is constructing a cut-off which prevents water from percolating beneath the barrage and undermining its foundations. The work is divided into four seasons, and when completed there will be 3000 feet of cut-off wall extending right across the bed of the Nile. Air Alorrison was in charge of the work last season, when construction proceeded in the rush period day and night for six weeks. After graduating in 1924, Air Morrison was" engaged on dam and bridge construction in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. For the last three years he has been in London, specialising in pile-driving and foundation engineering. He is a sen of the Rev. A. S. Morrison, of Sumner and formerly of Raltain, and was a pupil of the Ashburton High School.