PERSONAL

Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 12, 13 March 1946, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. E. F. Rothwell, of Lower Hutt, has been elected a member of the council of the Wellington Law Society. « « * * Mr. G. R. Boas, A.ComA., of Lower Hutt, has been admitted as an associate of the Society of Commercial Accountants, England #** * . Mr. C. H. Griffin has been elected a member of the executive of the New Zealand Biscuit and Confectionery Manufacturers' Association. « • • • Cr. J. B. Young was granted leave of absence from Monday night's meeting, of the Lower Hutt City Council, as he was visiting the South Island. * # # * Mr. J. G. Perry, formerly assist-ant-engineer to the Invercargill City Council, has been appointed senior assistant engineer to the Lower Hutt City Council. .•# * * • At the annual meeting of the district conference of the M.U.1.0.0.F., at Wellington, deep • regret was expressed at the death of Mr G. A. Hall .secretary of the Rose of the , Valley Lodge (Lower Hutt) for more than 50 years. • * • * Mr. Monigatti, president of the Hutt Valley Returned Services Association, recently visited Taranaki. » • • • Feeling reference was made in the annual report of the Hutt Rugby Football Club to the death during the year of Mr. C. H. Slater, who had been closely connected with early football in the Hutt Valley, and Mr. S. A. Ogilvie, one of the club's vice-presidents. - • * * • Miss Lawson, fiancee of Squadron Leader J. R. Hutchison, of Lower Hutt, was amongst those who arrived at Auckland from England by the Akaroa last week. * • * * Mr. S. Blackley, representing the New Zealand Counties Association, has been appointed a member of the Town Planning Board. } • 0 • * Mr. Paul Schramm, the well known pianist, left Wellington recently on a world concert tour, starting in Australia. * « » • At Monday night's meeting of the Lower Hutt City Council the Mayor, Mr. J. W. Andrews, referred to the great loss the community had suffered by the recent sudden death of Rev. J. Thomson Macky, minister of Knox Church. Councillors stood in silence as a mark of, respect, and it was decided to send condolences to the relatives of the late Mr. Macky. *'* * * Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Croft, of Lower Hutt, are spending a holiday at Gisborno • » » * At the request of the Commissioner of Works, the services of Mr. R. D. Hill, Lower Hutt Town Planner, have been made available for a month for the supervision of special survey and mapping work. "It is a feather in our cap, as well as in that of Mr. Hill, that the services of our Town Planner should be requested for work of national importance," said the Mayor,