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Evening Star, Issue 23915, 19 June 1941, Page 8

PERSONAL

—Vice-Regal.— The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, presided at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday morning. Later His Excellency presided at a meeting of the National Patriotic Fund Board. For the purpose of conferring with: the New Zealand military authorities Major-general W. C. Holden, D. 5.0., M.C., War Office representative on the Eastern Group Supply Council at Delhi, has arrived in New Zealand after taking part in similar conferences in Australia. • The Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, has received cabled advice that Mr C. A. Jeffery, private secretary to the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser), who was injured in a- recent motor smash in Egypt, is making a splendid recovery, and in a few weeks will be as well as ever.—-Press Association. Lance-corporal G. F. Miller, who has been posted as missing, is a son of Mr and Mrs W. M'Nair Miller, of Hastings, and a brother of Mr F. W. G. Miller, secretary of the Automobile Association (Southland). Another son. ofMr and Mrs Miller, who was in' the Air Force, was killed in a flying accident in England last August. . Mr David Maider left for Wellington to-day, and will return to Dunedin early next week.

The Rev. C. G. Hedley Bycroft, of United Congregational Church, has received a unanimous call to Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wel-

lington. The following Southland sheep farmers have been nominated! by primary producers’ organisations for to the Electoral Committee of the New, Zealand Meat Producers’ Boards— Messrs H. P. MTntyre (Maitland), Jas. Cowie (Balfour), and E. J. Bailey (South Hillend). , Mr James Samuel Roberts, assistant borough engineer. at Napier, has been appointed 1 assistant engineer to the Invercargill City Council. There were seven applications for the position. Mr Roberts, who is_ 28 years < of age ,and married, was trained as a civil engineering cadet in the city engineer’s department of Wellington,, and after six years he became'an engineering assistant in the department.; On October 1. 1939, he was appointed to his present position. Ho is 1 a registered civil engineer, an associate- member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and an associate member of the Institution ofStructural Engineers. The death was announced at Christchurch yesterday of Mr F. W. Rowley, a former secretary of the Labour Department, aged 66. —Wellington message. Mr W. R. Clarke left for Wellington, on to-day’s express. . Advice has been received in Dunedin that Sapper V. F. G. Hay, having been wounded, is waiting passage for his return home. Latest registrations at Wain s Hotel are Mr J. Neville-Jackson, Mr R. 0. Chatfield, Mr C. Chamberlain (Auckland), Mr A. J. Wyness, Mr G. W* Penlmgton (Wellington). Guests at the Grand Hotel includa Mr and Mrs V. S. Hamill, Miss G. Hamill, Miss D. Hamill (Shanghai), Mr B. Firth (Blelbourne), Mr J. W. Graham (Christchurch), Mrs W. Telford (Otanomomo), On the register at the City Hotel ara Mr A, D. Forsyth, Mr W. A. Pritchard, Mr and Mrs J. A. Wilson (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Duthie (Christchurch), Mr M. J, Watkins (Timaru), Mr T. A. Quirk (Invercargill), Mr J. Ritchie (Gore), ' Excelsior Hotel guests include Mr C. Sykes (New Plymouth), Colonel H. Richardson, Mr N. J. Sutton, Mr W. Marchbank (Wellington), Mr G. Gibb (Timaru).