PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21036, 25 February 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr J. B. Stewart, of Dunedin, who for eleven years has been manager of the Union Bank of Australia at Geraldine, has been appointed manager of the bank at Feilding. A large at-, tendance of citizens representative of the town of Geraldine and district, met to express their high regard of Mr Stewart, who was actively connected with many institutions working for tho welfare or the people and district. A' handsome presentation was made to Mr Stewart by the mayor (Mr B, R,, Macdonald) on behalf of those present.' The secretary (Mr 0. L. Ferens) of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association) will leave to-morrow morning for Central Otago to address a number., of meetings on the subject of the organisation of the annual Poppy Day, appeal and other matters in which the R.S.A. is interested. Mr A. B. Moffet was a through passenger from Invercargill to Wellmgn ton to-day. Superintendent Campbell, of the Timaru Fire Brigade, is on a visit to Dunedin. Mr W. H. Shepherd left Dunedin to-day on a business trip to .Wellington. Mr C. E. Hassell returned to Inver- * cargill to-day from Gore. Mr Walter Ellis, past president of the Otago Master Builders’ and Contractors’ Association, has been elected vice-president of the Master Builders’* • Federation at the conference now being held. ■ At the executive meeting of the Otago Provincial Fruitgrowers’ Council :, held yesterday Mr Alexander M‘Donaid. secretary of the Taieri Fruitgrow-; ers’ Association, took occasion, on be-: half of his association, to present Mr, H. Turner, manager of the council,; with a small token of the esteem in' which he is held by the fruitgrowers of, the Taieri. Mr M'Donald said that the; gift carried with it the sincere good wishes of his members for Mr Turner’s success overseas, and stressed the valu- :' able assistance which Mr Turner had 1 ' rendered to tho industry in the dominion generally and in Otago particularly < In acknowledging the presentation,, which took the form of a handsome set of ebony hair brushes; Mr Turner asked Mr M’Donald to convey to the Taieri growers, amongst whom he numbered many vaulable friends, his keen appreciation of their useful gift, and to assure them that he hoped still to be of assistance to the industry when overseas. ’ . >

Advice has been received by cable from London that Mr Ronald Chamberlain, M.A., Mus.Bao., F.R.C.0., A.R.A.M., examiner for Trinity College of Music, will arrive in Wellington on July 25, and will examine the South Island in all subjects The Grand Hotel register includes Mr R. ,B. Williams (London), Mr and Mrs A. Terry (Sydney), Mr and Mrs Warwick Gregory Messrs W. Nicholls, Roy Smith, R. Jollins, J., Lavelle, and H. Arrowsmith (Wellington) ; Mrs F. M. Kilian, Miss H. Buckham, Mr A. B. Kirkwood (Christchurch); Mr and Mrs A. Bushel! (Ashburton, Mr F. R. Shrimpton (Timaru), and Mr Linton Mann (Pembroke). Misses D. Saunders and B. Thompson (Perth), Mesdames J. W. A. Prentice and M. A. Black (Sydney), Mr CStevens (Auckland), Mr W. Anderson (Wellington), Mr and Mrs E. A. Millward (Wanganui), and Mr A. G. Stewart (Milton), are staying at the Excelsior Hotel.

' Late arrivals at the City Hotel include Mr and Mrs R. C. Stewart (Wellington), Miss E. N. Pickering, Messrs A. H. Carter, D. M. Fraser, and J, P. Foley (Christchurch), Messrs F. T.' D. and B. Jeffery (Roxburgh), Miss L. E. Hoskin (Omakau), Mr W* Whyte (Ophir), and Mr and Mrs G< .White. (Invercargill).