PERSONAL ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 11 October 1949, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss D. Shields, of the staff of the Blackball Post Office, is on relieving duties at Waiuta.

The King and Queen on Monday returned to London with Princess Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh, anl Prince Charles, from Scotland.

Mr K. R. Fisher, of the State Mines Department, Dobson, who has been appointed to the position of colliery clerk at Blackball, will take up his new duties in the near future.

The United States Educational Foundation in New Zealand announces the appointment of Mr E. G. Budge, of Wellington, to its Wellington staff as an administrative assistant and accountant.

Mr V. McHerron, a cornet soloist in the Greymouth Municipal Band, will leave to-morrow to join the St. Kilda Band, Dunedin, prior to its departure for Australia. He will play in the band at the forthcoming Australian championships.

Mr T. F. Simpson, Lower Hutt, yesterday announced himself a candidate for the Hutt seat, against Rt. Hon. W. Nash,, as a Revolutionary Socialist.

Dr J. W. Kemp, aged 34, a New Zealander, who has been absent from his homeland for over 25 years, . and for the past three years has been in charge of a hospital at Sarawak, Borneo, arrived yesterday at Wellington in the Wanganella. Pie intends with his wife and family of three, to remain in the Dominion.

Mr J. R. “Sapper” Smith, of Cobden, will to-day retire from the New Zealand Railways Department, in which h e had over 40 years’ service. Most of his service has been on the W’est Coast, and of late he was yard foreman on the Greymouth waterfront. His successor will be Mr G. C. Lindsay, also of Cobden.

The following are guests at the Albion Hotel —Miss J. Snodin (Leicester England); Messrs M. Grayidon (London); P. M. Plawke (Nelson); B. S. Blake (Tauranga); J. Sutherland, H. J. Olson, W. Walker, R. T. Tidswell, I. J. McGuigan, F. Longshaw, J. Mundy, R. Buzzard, Mr and Mrs B. R. Curgenven (Christchurch); Mr and Mrs J. Bryant (Dunedin); Messrs H. M. Rendoll, J. D. Peart, R. M. Conachey, Mr and Mrs Patten (Wellington).