Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24095, 3 November 1943, Page 2

Personal Items

Mr F. H. Waters has been appointed Valuer-General, in succession to Mr W. Stewart, who has retired on superannuation.—(P.A.) Captain Stanley D. Jupp, United States Navy representative in New Zealand of the commander of the South Pacific area, has been promoted to the rank of commodore. —(P.A.) The New Zealand soldier-composer, Denis Mulgan, mentioned in a cable message from London yesterday. Is a son of Mr Geoffrey Mulgan, of Oxford, England, and a nephew of Mr Alan Mulgan, of the staff of the National Broadcasting Service, Wellington. He was born in Auckland and educated in England. He took up music as a career, with the oboe as his instrument. He has also done some conducting.—(P.A.) Major J. Abel, Dominion chairman of the Prisoner-of-War Inquiry Office, who has been visiting Christchurch, returned to Wellington yesterday. The North Canterbury district of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union has accepted the offer of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association to appoint two representatives of the union on the association’s executive. Messrs A. M. Carpenter and R. G. Bishop have been appointed. The Deputy-Prime Minister (the Hon.. W. Nash) announced yesterday that the King had been pleased to approve the award of the D.S.C. to Lieutenant A. G. Tait, R.N., for good services! in submarines. His father is Mr A. G. Tait, of Timaru. Messrs F. A. Kitchingham (Mayor of Greymouth), J. D. McDonald (Greymouth Borough Council). W. Fisher, the Hon. J. Ryall, M.L.C. (Grey County), Messrs A. R. Elcock (Mayor of Hokitika), E. Rowley, and D. J. Evans (Westland County Council) will represent West Coast local bodies at a conference of South Island local bodies at Christchurch to-day.