PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 23833, 13 March 1941, Page 10

PERSONAL

Flying-officer G. E. Weston, who has been awarded the D.F.C. for the great gallantry and . skill he displayed in a bombing raid on the docks at Brest, is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Georg® Weston, of Lawrence. Flying-officer Weston, who was bom in England, is now 21 years of age. He was educated at the Oamaru North School,. Waitaki High School, and the_ Lawrence District High School. On leaving school he spent two years in the head office of the Publio Works Department in Wellington. Ha loft New. Zealand in December, 1938,to take up a short-service commission in the Royal Air Force. Mr G. A. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, left this morning for Christchurch.' Mr James Begg and Mr A. S. Holms (Y/aimahaka) left this morning to attend a meeting of the Meat Board all. Wellington. _Mr J. Kilmartin left to-day for Wei- ■ lington to attend the New Zealand Boxing Conference. - Mr M. Rocke O’Shea, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, returned north by the through express yesterday after a few days’' visit to Dunedin. Messrs Charles James Inder, of Dunedin, and William Edward Aubrey, of Oamaru, were yesterday nominated for the position of representative of the Crown ■ tenants on the • Otago Land Board for the ensuing two years. Mr Inder is the sitting member. The ■lection, the exact date of which is yet fo be fixed, will be held about the

ttniddle of April. _ _ . V Grand Hotel registrations include Mi; H. J. Williams (Melbourne!, Mr C. W. Dodds, Mr D. W. Duff. Mr L. Brodie (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Charters (Geraldine), Mr and ‘Mrs C. J. Broderick (Invercargill). Staying at the City Hotel are Miss A. M. W T ebb, Mr C. W. Ramsay (Wellington), Mr L. A. Piper, Mr L. R, M‘Kay (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs D, K. Torrance (Invercargill), .

Latest arrivals at Wain’s Hotel include Mr C. W. Hayward (Wellington), Mr M. K. Lawson (Christchurch), Mr W. Hedges (Ashburton), Mr and Mrs R. Harrison (Oamaru),. Mr F. J. Handcock (Waipori Falls), Mr W. E.. Hazlett (Invercargill).

The latest 1 Gazette ’ has the following appointments of honorary aides-de-camp to the Governor-General -.—Captain A. 8.. Fanshawe, Royal Navy; Captain E. Rotherham, Royal Navy,;] Lieutenant-colonel (temp, colonel) E. T. Rowllings, N.Z. Staff Corps; Lieu-tenant-colonel (temp, colonel) A. E, Conway, 0.8. E., N.Z. Staff Corps; Lieutenant-colonel C. S. White, V.D., N.Z. Temporary Staff; Major J. G. Jeffery, M.C., Y.D., N.Z. Temporary, Staff; Wing-commander E. 6. Olson, Royal N.Z. Air Force; Squadron-leader •I. Seabrook, A.F.C.. Royal N.Z. Air Force; Sanadron-leader M. R. Galder, Royal N.Z. Air Force; Flight-lieuten-ant R. B. Bannerman, D.F.C.. Royal N.Z. Air Force.