South Island Local Bodies To Meet At Greymouth

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1947, Page 6

South Island Local Bodies To Meet At Greymouth

For the first time, the executive of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association will meet at Greymouth tomorrow. Officers of the association from various parts of the South Island will arrive this afternoon to attend the meeting. The visitors will include the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr E. H. Andrews, who is chairman of the executive; the Mayor of Dunedin, Mr D. C. Cameron; the Mayor of Timaru, Mr A. E. S. Hanan; the Mayor of Rangiora, Mr C. W. Tyler; Cr J. N. Clarke, a member of the Christchurch City Council, and Mrs Clarke, who is a member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board; Mr H. S. Feast, town clerk of Christchurch; Dr Jobberns, a member of the North Canterbury Catchment Board; and Mr F. G. K. Gilchrist’, of Christchurch, secretary of the ciation. The meeting will also be attended by representatives of the local bodies in the West Coast area, who do not hold positions on the present executive. It will be held in the meeting room of the Grey Electric Power Board and in the evening the visitors will be entertained -at a social at Harker’s lounge by the local bodies centred at Greymouth. The South Island Local Bodies’ Association was formed to further the interests of the South Island when it appeared that the North Island interests were becoming paramount and. it has met with considerable success, resulting in the local bodies of this Island speaking with a united voice on many important topics.

It was considered desirable that the association should meet in turn in various parts of the Island, to enable the members to become familiar with the different localities and their problems. With tomorrow’s meeting at Greymouth a meeting of the executive or an annual conference will have been held in every major centre in the South Island, with the exception of Invercargill, which has been fixed as the venue for this year’s annua] conference. 1

Ship’s Officer Injured Crushed by a cask of tallow during loading of the steamer Samlamu at Bluff yesterday, John Smith Turnbull, aged .53, chief officer of the ship, suffered injuries to his chest, and was admitted to the Southland Hospital. Hs condition is satisfactory. The accident occurred at one of the hatches, and prompt action by a hatchman prevented Turnbull from falling into a hold. —(P.A.) Death of Naval Officer

Commodore E. Rotherham, formerly Naval Officer in Charge at Auckland, superintendent of His Majesty’s Dockyard at Devonport, and Director of Naval Recruiting, has died in England. He was appointed to the New Zealand command in 1940, and arrived in 1941. He was promoted from captain to commodore secondclass in 1940. When he returned to England at the beginning of 1943 he was appointed director of the King Alfred Naval Training School.— (P.A.)