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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr D. McCoomb, of the Levin municipal gasworks, was yesterday, from 26 applicants, appointed manager of the Waipawa gasworks. The appointment is announced of Mr A. L. Burk, who has been town clerk of Green Island, Dunedin, as Commissioner of Thames Borough in place of Mr C. L. Grange, who is to take up the position of secretary-manager of the Auckland Hospital Board. Messrs W. H. Brown, T. M. N. Rodgers and S. I. McKenzie (president, member of the executive and secretary, respectively) of the Manawatu Automobile Association, are in Hawera today ' attending the annual meeting of the North Island Motor Union. Mr D. F. Smillie, who has been hon. secretary of the Manawatu Bowling, Croquet and Tennis Club for nearly nine years, did not,, owing to .the pressure of other duties seek re-election to that office at the annual meeting of the club last evening. Warm appreciation of Ills valuable services was expressed, particularly in consolidating and strengthening the finances of the club.

Year by year the small band of hardy pioneers who helped to build up the province of Otago is and in the passing of Mr Thomas White, at the age of 92, another link with the past is severed. Mi; White arrived .in the ship Jura on ■ September 23, 1858, a lad 12 years of, age, and with his parents went to live in the Tomahawk Valley, where in later years with his father and uncle be quarried rock from the hills and built a substantial stone dwelling, which is 'a landmark in the valley. The Gazette announces the following appointments to the Dairy Factory Managers’ Registration Board: On the recommendation of the New Zealand Dairy Board, Mr A. Linton, dairy company manager; on the recommendation of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association, Mr J. M. McDonald, a memb.er of this association on the recommendation of the Massey Agricultural College Council, Professor W. Riddet Massey College, and Mr G. M. Valentine, Department of Agriculture.—Press Association.