PERSONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 127, 11 March 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lady Galway and a party from Government House, Wellington, passed through Ashburton by car at 10 o’clock this morning on their way to Mount Cock for aTirief holiday.

Mr D. P. Moodie, formerly of Ashburton, left to-day. to board the Wan--ganella at Wellington for Australia,, whence he will return to Johannesburg, South Africa. Pastor W. E. Vickery and Mr V. Lovett will represent the Ashburton Church of -Christ at the annual Church of Christ Conference at Invercargill during Easter. Mrs S. J. Buchler will represent the Women’s Christian Auxiliary at the conference. Mr M. H. R. Jones, who has been for some years on the staff of the Public Trust Office at Auckland and has been transferred on promotion to the position of district manager at Oamafu, visited Ashburton to-day, en route to Oamaru to take over his new duties. Mr Jones is a son of Mr H. M. Jones, of this town. Superintendent A. Morrison, of the Hawera Fire Brigade, has been ap-deputy-superintendent of the Christchurch. Fire Brigade, in place of Deputy-Superintendent C. J. Blake, who will retire at the- end of this month after nearly 41 years’ service. The appointment was made at a meeting of the Christchurch Fire Board last evening.

Probably the oldest traveller to use the regular air service as a matter of course, Mr John Vorbach, aged 94, left Blenheim by the Cook Strait Airways ’plane for Wellington ■ this morning. He is en route to visit his daughter, Mrs Fraedcr, of Auckland. Mr Vorbach is an amazingly active man, and up till two. years ago was actively engaged in blacksmithing. He is an experts biliiardist (says a Blenheim Press Association message),

Bandsman John Ford, of the Ashburton Salvation Army Band, has been awarded second prize in a Dominion competition instituted by Commissioner F. M. Adams for an original march composition for the use of Salvation Army bands. The first prize went to, Bandsman Hubert ltive, of Whangarei, who was a member of the local Salvation Army Band in 1933. The New Zealand. Musical Board at Salvation Army Headquarters, Wellington, judged the entries. Bandsman Ford’s composition was entitled “Joyful Service,’’ while the winning march was called “Day Springs.”