PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. James Wylie was re-elected unopposed as president of the Auckland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Association at the 85th annual meeting of the association yesterday.

Mr. W. S. Robinson, London director of North Broken Hill, Ltd., and an associate of other, important Australian companies, was a through passenger for Melbourne by' the Mariposa" which arrived at Auckland yesterday.

Mr. B. L. Tapley, of Dunedin, .'returned to Auckland by the Mariposa yesterday after spending eight months with his brother, ".Mr. Colin Tapley, in Hollywood, who ■ will visit New Zealand about the end of the year.

Mr. R. McGillivray, Fields Superin-* tendent of the Department of Agriculture, will leave Christchurch on Monday evening for the North Island. He will visit Auckland and will attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association at Hamilton..

A; representative gathering of railway employees presented Mr. G. Mutton, Wellington, on his retirement from the railway service this week, with.an armchair for himself and a clock- ior Mrs. Mutton. References were made to Mr. Mutton's worth as a railway officer and numerous expressions of good will were voiced. Mr. Mutton joined the Westport" section of the. Railway Department 37 years ago. He was later? stationed in Canterbury and, on the taking over of the Wellington-Mana-watu Company's section of railway, he was transferred to the north. He has been in Wellington for the past eight years and is chairman of'the Wellington branch of the Associated Society of Railway Servants. He has also been secretary of the Kaiwarra Football Club for a number of years.