Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24677, 21 September 1945, Page 4

Personal Items

♦ The Minister of Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb), who is on his way to the 1.L.0. conference at Paris, has arrived in Washington. Mr Webb is reported to have stood up to the journey well, but is receiving treatment for his eye at a Washington hospital.—(F.O.P.R.) Cr. H. Kitson, chairman of the Waimairi County Council, was last evening appointed by the council as its delegate to the annual conference of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association, to be held in Dunedin on October 24, 25, and 26. Mr T. H. Langford, No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority, will leave on Tuesday to conduct a sitting of the authority in Greymouth. Mr J. S. Haywood, district officer of the Transport Department, will represent the Commissioner of Transport, and Mr C. G. Rands will represent the Rehabilitation Department. Mrs H. J. Allard, of Sumner, has received advice that her husband. Flying Officer H. J. Allard, is safe in Singapore, after being a prisoner in Java for three and a half years The appointment of Mr M. E. Hayman as a member of the Timaru Harbour Board in place of the late Mr H. M. Whatman, is notified in the Gazette.—(F.O.P.R.) The following officers were elected at last evening’s annual meeting of the Canterbury and Westland Civilian Amputees’ Association:—president, Mr A. E. Lilley; vice-president, Mrs D. Lindley; secretary and treasurer, Mr H. W. Rogers; committee, Messrs W. G. Donaldson. A. V. Southcombe, C..Barwick, M. E. Clemens, and R. J. Thomas: honorary auditors,' Messrs W. G. Donaldson and C. Duffy. The appointment of Mr D. C. McKechnie as a member of the Temuka Licensing Committee has been gazetted.—(F.O.P.R.) Mr Arthur Rayner, assistant manager of Bellamy’s, the Parliamentary restaurant, has been appointed manager of ‘‘The Lodge,” Hanmer Springs. Mr Rayner, who was formerly manager of the Wellington Club, served in the last war with an English regiment, the West Kents. Working his passage home from New Zealand to enlist, he served on the North-West Frontier and in Afghanistan, Mrs Rayner has been in charge of the National Patriotic Fund Board’s tobacco scheme. — (F.O. P.R.) • Mrs D. H. Thomas has received news that her husband, Lieutenant D. H. Thomf)s, is safe and well in Rangoon. Lieutenant Thomas, who is a son of Mr E. G. Thomas, 477 Hereford street, has been a prisoner of war since the fall of Singapore. Mrs Thomas and her two small sons have been living in Christchurch for the last few years. Mr E. A. Dobbie, who, for several years, has been secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Health Camps and of the King George V Memorial Trust Board, has resigned these positions, and will leave Wellington soon for Auckland, where he will take over the secretaryship of the Auckland Provincial Council of Health Camps. At a meeting of the Sunlight League Health Camp Committee last evening, regret was expressed at Mr Dobbie’s resignation from his dual post, and it was decided to send him a letter expressing appreciation of his work for health camns and gratitude for his unfailing help to the camp committee in Christchurch. His keen practical interest in the committee s permanent health camp at “Glenelg, Murray Aynsley ■ hill had, members said, been of great value.