PERSONAL ITEMS
A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that Mr. J. H. Guneon, who has been Mayor of Auckland for a lengthy term, and who had decided to retire, 'has consented to stand again nt the earnest request of leading citizens.
The directors of the Alliance Assurance Company, Limited, of London, have made the following- appointments:—To be general manager for New Zealand at the company’s head office at Wellington, Mr. Robert Caugfiley, at present manager of the Christchurch branch office. To be. manager of the Christchurch branch in place of Mr. Caughley, Mr. H. T. Francis, at present chief clerk at that branch. The company’s manager at the Auckland branch, Mr. Bartholomew Kent, having on account of his advanced age, expressed the wish to retire after thirty-seven years’ service, the directors have with much regret accepted his resignation, and have appointed as his successor Mr. Wilford Skegg, at present assistant manager of the Wellington branch. ( It is expected that some yveeks will elapse before Mr. W. Pryor will be able to resume his duties as secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation.
Mr. P. O’Rourke, president of the New Zealand Miners’ Federation, returned to Wellington by the Manuka on Monday night.
Messrs. S. Boreham and A. Cook, who represented the New Zealand Workers Union at the recent conference of the Australian Workers’ Union, with which organisation the. New Zealand body us affiliated, returned from Sydney by the Manuka on Monday.
Mr. George Highland, the American producer for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., is bow in Wellington on a health visit. He intends to visit Rotorua and places in the South Island before leaving for San Francisco, cn route to New York. Mr. Highland has comi>leted bis contract with J. C. Williamson., Ltd., and at present does not know whether he will return to Australasia.
Senior-Sergeant Bird, of Petone, who has been on a health-recruiting trip to Helensville, returned home on Monday evening. '
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 134, 2 March 1921, Page 4
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322PERSONAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 134, 2 March 1921, Page 4
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