LICENSING LAWS COMMISSION

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24535, 7 April 1945, Page 6

LICENSING LAWS COMMISSION

wßman.- member APPOINTED

T. JORDAN RESIGNS

(PA.) ' WELLINGTON., April' 6. Hon. M • nS3») announewi/ to-mght the appointment of Mrs Bella Feme Logief of Lower/Hutt, as a member of the Royal Commisslon retently set up .Mra Logie ls the widow of Sergeant George Logie, of the 15th Royal Scots Regiment; For several yearn past sbe has taken' a prominent part m social welfare matters. ; She -is-preddent, the wSneff’fi/ tecUon of the Returned Bervic®;?’ AAociktion,'' ;fpr .toe Hutt VaUey3tod t Js also welfare‘ officer.for .tlmtbody; rgpresentaUVe on the rehabilitation committeetof tbe Hutf Vaßey. MKlpresi* .debt' of;% War Service Auxiliary /for the Rutt Valley. Of ■her sik tons, one, .one has tofig hal ted; three years r aaif Middle Easter te m .Jg»e R«»al New* Zealand Aito Wtea In ;the 'Faciflc, one is a prisoner of-war in Germany, midf one Is doing cbfitinando work. with the Navy in the North Sea area. Mrs Lqgie has also three daughters. r 'Tn addittbn .to. the value to' the qualifications,” said Mr; Nash, her appointment will give expression to the desire of Women’s organisations for the inclusion of 'a ; W9man to tom personnel of the commission.’ Mr Nash also announced that Mr Thomas; Jordan, ,of Masterton, - who was one of the orlginal ' appomteeS to the , commission; had intimated -his inability to act on the commission,, due to the pressure of hls private business affairs. His resignation had, accordingly,, been accepted with regret, Mrs Logie’s . appointment brings' up ‘ the complements of - the commission s personnel’’to" the original strength of oflne. : ■ puSlic hearings of (P.A.) 'witLmGTOK.Aprffa. _ The Rdygl eommisslon on/IJcenstog. will resume Re public. sltttogs at Weh lingtofl on Tuesday. Later in the vteek, it will hear submissions made on behalf of the.Ni.Z.P ißetomed Services’ Association, Itoe Officers’-Club, and certain returned servicemen; local and other bodies, and private evidence. . After the 1 ' Wellington sittings,, the, commission . will proceed to Auckland to hear evidence. It will determine, thereafter* the cenfrea to be visited fa the North Island* - '