PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 93, 16 October 1940, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General presided at a meeting of the Executive Council this morning. The Minister of Marine (the Hon. D. G. McMillan) will leave for the south by the steamer express tonight. Mr. F. W. Mathews, Chief Postmaster at Wellington, was welcomed to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last evening and was congratulated on his recent appointment as Chief Postmaster. ' : ' . I Mr. H. F. Butland, Registrar of the j Court of Arbitration, whose appointj ment as . secretary of the Canterbury j Employers' Association was ani nounced in "The Post" last night, was born in Hokitika in 1902. He. was educated at the Hokitika district primary and high schools and joined th.9 j Public Service in 1918 in the Munitions and Supplies Department, Wellington. He served with the Department of Labour at Wellington in 1919 and., again from 1922 to 1924 after spending 1921 at Palmerston North. He joined the Court of Arbitration, as 1 assistant to the Registrar in 1924. He was appointed Registrar of the Second Court of Arbitration in 1937, and rejoined the Court of Arbitration . as Registrar on the expiry of the term of appointment of the Second Court in 1937. Mr. A. J. Petrie, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at HuriterviHe, has been appointed manager at Marton. Mr. H. J. Bishop, assistant secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, who has been attending sit* tings of the Arbitration Court in Auckland, returned to' Wellington today.. Mr. L. J. McDonald has been appointed the representative of the Wellington Education Board on the Wellington Technical College Boarri pi I Governors in place of Mr. A. C. Blake, who has resigned.