PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 230, 27 August 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr D. I. McDonald, at present secretary of the Canterbury Employers’ Federation, has been appointed general secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association. —Press Association.

At a meeting of the directors of the N.Z. Farmers’ Dairy Union, Ltd., lollowing the annual meeting, to-day, M r J. A. Nash was re-elected chairman, thus enteriug on his 21st consecutive term in this office.

The Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford) is visiting AVellington, where ho will attend meetings of the Provincial Patriotic Committee and the Provincial Centennial Committee. He is to return to Palmerston North to-morrow evening.

Mr G. J. Lancaster, for 20 years headmaster of the Christchurch Boys’ High School, plans to retire from that position at tho end of the present school year. Mr Lancaster succeeded Mr C. E. Bevan Brown as headmaster of the school in 1921.

“For over 40 years we have had the name of Parsons associated with our directorate and very much regret that it terminates as from to-day,” said the chairman of directors (Mr J. A. Nash) at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers’ Dairy Union to-day. “Our very highly respected director, Mr Ivor Parsons, owing to an alteration in the supply from his farm, has had to retire. He, liko his father, has done excellent work on the directorate and we shall miss his counsel and advice. We thank him for his long service and wish him every success in the future.” Mr Nash presented an appropriate gift to Mr Parsons, who expressed liis regret at severing his connection with the company and thanked the directors for their gift. The death has occurred after a brief illness of Mr Arthur William Gillies, a well-known Auckland sharebroker, states a Press. Association message. Mr Gillies was born and educated in Dunedin, his father being the late Mr Robert Gillies, who at one time was member for Bruce in the House of Representatives. He took up farming as a career and set up in business at Hawera, where he served for some time as Mayor. During the Great War he was appointed a member of the District Repatriation Board and voluntarily took charge of the scheme under which farms of men on service were supervised and carried on by experienced farmers. In 1935. with Mrs Gillies, he visited Europe and was able to realise a long-cherished wish to join his brother, Sir Harold Gillies, the famous plastic surgeon, for a salmon fishing trip to Iceland. During the latter part of his life Mr Gillies resided at Ranui, near Henderson.