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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23154, 17 January 1950, Page 6

PERSONAL

GROUP-CAPTAIN J. R. FLEMING. R.A.A.F.. has been appointed Australian defence representative in New Zealand in succession to Brigadier G. H. O'Brien. He will arrive at Wellington on February 24 accompanied by his wife, Brigadier O’Brien is becoming director of the Royal Artillery Army Headquarters in Melbourne. MR. A. A FRASER, chairman of the Waikohu County Council, presided at the monthly meeting of the council yesterday. Also present were Messrs. G S. Bridge, A. F. Fitzgerald, H. C. Boys. A C. Bellcrby and H. J. F. Tombleson Mr. G. Brown was granted leave of absence. MR. E. M. WATERMAN, Australian representative on the International Wool Secretariat, will arrive at Auckland on January 20 on a brief visit to New Zealand. After visiting Wellington, where he will discuss secretariat affairs with the New Zealand Wool Board. Mr. Waterman will leave by air on January 25 for the United States on his return journey to the secretariat’s headquarters in London. 'During his stay in New Zealand Mr. Waterman will be the guest of the New Zealand Wool Board, which, together with the wool boards of Australia and South Africa, maintains and directs the International Wool Secretariat. The Australian Wool Board appointed Mr. Waterman its representative in December, 1948. He has just finished a 5000-mile tour of India and Pakistan, where he inspected the secretariat's activities and conferred with Government officials and industrialists.—P.A. MR. JOHN McNEIL. Kilmarnock. Scotland, the new pipe-major of the New Plymouth Caledonian Society's pipe band, was one of the immigrants who landed at Wellington from the Atlantis. Mr. McNeil was specially _ selected by the New Zealand immigration officer at London. Mr. W. G. Simpson, for the New Plymouth Caledonian Society. During the Second World War he served with the Ist Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and saw service in the occupation of Madagascar and in Burma. He held the rank of sergeant. He has played Association football and has also done a fair amount of boxing in Scotland. He is 39 years of age. Before the war Mr. McNeil served for many years with pipe bands in Scotland'. 'He is a carpenter by trade and is entering employment with a New Plymouth firm of builders.