Personal Items

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 6

Personal Items

v The Minister of Works (Mr W. S, Goosman) and the assistant Commissioner of Works (Mr W. F. Young) returned to Wellington by air yesterday afternoon. Mr Goosman met deputations from the Mayfield-Hinds and Ashburton-Lyndhurst Irrigation Development Associations yesterday morning and members of the Canterbury Progress League’s irrigation committee in the afternoon.

Mr G. J. Currie, senior clerk at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, will retire at the end of this month after 42 years’ service with the department. Most of Mr Currie’s career with the department has been spent in Christchurch, where he began his service. Mr R. J. H. Bollard, a Canterbury University College graduate in aeronautical engineering, has been awarded a doctorate of philosophy with honours at the Aero School of Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, where he went two years ago on a Rotary Foundation scholarship. Dr. Bollard is a son of Mr and Mrs R. J. Bollard, of Hamilton, and a grandson of Mr R. F. Bollard, former Minister of Internal Affairs. He took the bachelor of engineering degree with honours at Canterbury University College. Dr. Bollard will return to New Zealand in September. Mr J. G. Barclay has been reappointed the Halswell County Council’s representative on the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council. When he was appointed on Thursday Mr Barclay recalled that he had been a member of the national board when it was first started.

Mr J. F. Sloan, of Dunedin, Dominion secretary of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association, has resigned to take up the full-time position of secretaryorganiser of the Social Credit Political League in the Otago Province.— (P.A.) f