PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 29 June 1945, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mrs. L. Eatwell has left on. a visit to Christchurch.

Mr L. C. Cook left by yesterday morning’s plane for Wellington.

- Mrs. J. J. Shannahan left by yesterday; morning’s express for Christchurch.

A gazette notice issued last night announces the appointment of Mr. Henry Aiken Young to be Temporary Stipendiary Magistrate from June 25, to September 30 of this year.

A gazette notice issued last night states that Mr. Francis LevesonGower West, Auckland, has been appointed a member of. the special tribunal under the National Service Emergency Regulations.

Mr. R. A. L. Kay, of the stafr of the Greymouth Army Office, has been appointed to the literary staff of the “Taranaki Herald,” New Plymouth, and expects to take up his new position next month.

Mr. W. G. Macartney (Tai Tapu) was the successful candidate in the election for a southern ward member of the New Zealand Dairy Board. The voting was: W. G. Macartney (Tai Tapu) 6,970, B. Clearwater (Southland). 4,175, J. F. Cairns (Temuka) 3,302, G. L. Mead (Motupiko) 2,308.

Mr. C E. Wheeler was elected chairman of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the annual meeting. The retiring chairman, Mr. C. T. C. Watson, said it was a happy coincidence that Mr. Wheeler should have been elected chairman (a position he .had previously filled) on the occasion of his fortieth year of continuous service in the gallery. Mr. B. 'A. Mair was elected vice-president

The following are guests at Itevington’s Hotel: Miss R. F. Muetze (Geraldine), Mrs. G. C. Haydon (Barrytown), Mrs. Beveridge, Mr. C. S. Barker (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Pawson (Timaru), Lieut, and Mrs. Norling (Auckland), Messrs R. Barker, J. E. Emery, J. Carrodus, Burton, H L. Grinlinton, A. Davidson (Christchurch), S. F. Mclntosh (Ashburton)

A Press Association message states that Archbishop O’Shea, of Wellington, will leave to-day. for Apia, to take part in the Episcopal Jubilee celebrations of the Right Rev. J. Darnand, Vicar Apostolic of Samoa, whom he consecrated 25 years ago. LieutenantColonel (Monsignor) Connolly will accompany the Archbishop, and they will afterwards visit Catholic Chaplins, and New Zealand Air Force personnel in the Pacific.

The Moscow radio reports that M. Stalin has been promoted to be Generalissimo, by order of the Supreme Soviet. The Presidium of the Soviet created the title of Generalissimo by a decree, and then issued a statement that the title would be conferred for exceptional and outstanding service to the State in the leadership of all the Armed Forces during the war.

A list of twenty-five awards to personnel of the Second N.Z.E.F. includes that of the George Medai io Corporal Frederick George Herring, whose mother is Mrs. V. Herring, Westport. The George Medai in military services is confined to acts of great bravery, for which- purely military honours are not normally granted. Details of the act •of bravery which earned the George Medal for Corporal Herring, are . not yet known in New Zealand. He is the first member of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. to receive this medal. ...

Guests at the Albion Hotel include: Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Coady (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Howie '(Hamilton), Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Curr (Timaru), F./Lt. W. Smart, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew, Messrs C. L. Hardy, A. Mutch, W. Maloney (Christchurch), F. E. Mathers, B. J. Langley (Wellington), H. W. Thomson (Hokitika), M. S. Littlewood (Hastings), B. M. Cooper (Invercargill), W. Gadd (Westport), W. A. Downing, W. Heffernan, A. Sullivan, T. C. Irving (Reefton), Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Ford (Wanganui), Miss F. A. Pedlow (Dunedin), Miss D. A. Wheeler, Miss H. M. Hamilton (New Plymouth;.

Lance-Corporal Owen George O’Connor, of the Australian Imperial Forces, who has been cited for gallantry in Southern Bougainville Island, is a native of Greymouth. He is the’ only son of Mr George O’Connor, and a grand-son of Mrs M. O’Connor, Preston Road. The report of Corporal O’Connor’s gallantry stated: “The 20*year-old Australian, LanceCorporal Owen George O’Connor, has been cited for gallantry in Southern Bougainville Island, in the Solomons. 1 Lance-Corporal O’Connor stood guard over a wounded man, when three Japanese attacked with fixed bayonets. O’Connor killed them all, and then, under fire, carried the wounded man to safety. He returned to save a second wounded comrade, and he gave covering fire so that a third wounded man could escape; and finally he rescued a fourth man. who was pinned down by enemy fire. LanceCorporal O’Connor was second in command of a nine-man patrol, whose task was to locate suspected Japanese headquarters.”

Labour's candidate for the forthcoming by-election at Dunedin North, Mr. Robert Walls, J.P., of Dunedin, is a prominent business man, and is well known for his activities in local body affairs. Since 1938 he has been a member not only of the Dunedin City Council, but also for the Otago Harbour Board and the Otago Hospital Board. In the municipal elections last year he topped the poll for the City Council and the Harbour Board. Mr. Walls is a trustee of the Dunedin Savings Bank, and in 1944 was president, a position carrying with it at that time the chairmanship of the National Savings Committee. He is also a member of the Otago Land Sales Committee and the Dunedin District Health Camp Committee,, a Vice-President of the Otago High School BOys’ Cricket Club, and has been for many years a member of the Royal Dunedin Male Choir a nd the Dunedin Orphans’ Club. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was Master of Lodge Dunedin 931 in 1917-18. He was subsequently appointed Deputy-District Grand Master of Otago and Southland. Mr. Walls was born in Dunedin and educated at the High Street and Union Street Schools, and served an apprenticeship to the cabinet-making trade, after which he and the late Mr. John McCracken took over the piano repairing and tuning business. He was for a time owner of the broadcast-' ing station 4ZM, which was eventually taken over by the Government.