Personal Notes

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1945, Page 4

Personal Notes

Mr and Mrs N. Shaw left this morning for Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs E. Preston left for Auckland this morning.

Second Lieut. D. Hunter left this morning for Auckland.

Cpl. W. Brown, R.N.Z.A.F., was a passenger by this morning’s express to Christchurch.

Mr C. : Biggs, Conservator of Forests, Hokitika, has received notice of his transfer to the position of Conservator of Forests, Nelson. He Avill leave Westland early in the Ncav Year. ■

Mr. J. A. Capper, Avho has been chief messenger for the Legislative Council for 38 years, will retire this week. His father, Mr. J. G. Capper, held a similar position for 35 years before him. The new chief messenger Avill be Mr. D. S. Arbuckle.

Lady Myrtle Balfour, daughter of the late Earl Jellicoe, former Gov- - ernor-General of New Zealand, and the Dowager Countess Jellicoe, died at AVinchester, England, on November 10. Lady Myrtle, who Avas 37 years of age, was the Avife of Mr. Lionel Balfour, of Warnford, Southampton.

The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) has announced that Brigadier N. W. McD. Weir, who will next month take .up his appointment as Chief, of the General Staff has been appointed aide de camp to His Majesty the King in succession to Major-Gen-eral P. H. Bell, who has relinquished the appointment on his retirement.— P.A.

A Sydney cablegram stated that Lieutenant Commander Harold W. Larsen M.8.E., R.N.V.R., has been appointed to take charge of United Nations Relief Rehabilitation Administration office which Avill be opened in Wellington this month. He is a New Zealander who has served with the Royal Navy since 1939, and was formerly senior lecturer in economics, Canterbury University College.

Recent guests at Lake Brunner Hotel, Mitchells: Mr and Mrs W. J. S. Brabant (Suva), Mr S. P. Godfrey, Mr I. Davis, Mr H. Mclntosh, Mr P. Stevens, Mr D. Petrie, Mr R. Forrester Mr T. Birch, Miss A. Sandston (Christchurch), Mr A. S. BoydTurner (Auckland), Miss S. Tassell (Tauranga), Dr. and Mrs A. Stewart (Akaroa), Mr. F. Molloy, Mr M. Ellery, Mr Steel (Greymouth), Mr Slaughter (Hokitika), Mr R. Bundelburg (Wellington).

Tributes to the services of Mr. F. Sherwood, private secretary to the Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones), were paid yesterday at a meeting in the Minister’s office. Mr. Sherwood is retiring after 45 years in the Public Service, 30 of them as a Ministerial private secretary. Those present included the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser), Mr. Adam Hamilton, Army, Navy, and Air Force Chiefs of Staff, departmental heads, and others who have been associated with Mr. Sherwood in his career. Mr. Jones, for members of the defence services, made a presentation to Mr. Sherwood and Mrs. Sherwood. —P.A.

The R.N.Z.A.F. Band is now wound up, and the director and bandmaster, Flight-Lieutenant Gladstone Hill, is posted to the Reserve with the rank of Squadron-Leader. Since the reorganisation under Hill in 1940, the band has raised over £170,000 for patriotic purposes, as well as assisting numerous recruiting tours and loan appeals.—P.A. When the Karepo berthed at Greymouth last Friday, every effort was made to load her with coal and dispatch her as soon as possible in order to relieve the gas position at Auckland, but, because rain held up loading operations and, when she had completed, bar conditions were most unfavourable, the vessel was unable to leave until yesterday, and will arrive at Auckland next week, about six days behind time. Three other vessels also took advantage of the moderation in bar conditions yesterday to sail, some of them having been bar bound for a small period, and two ships entered the port. There was only a moderate swell on the bar this morning and it is hoped to be able to get both of these vessels away today.