Bay Of Islands Hospital Board

Northern Advocate, 23 May 1944, Page 1 (Supplement)

Bay Of Islands Hospital Board

Bay Of Islands County (Seven Required.) MR. H. T. ATKINSON.—(See Bay of Islands County Council). MR. E. H. BLUNDELL.—With a record of over 30 years as solicitor to the Bay of Islands Flospital Board, County Council and Harbour Board, Mr. E. H. Blundell is now nominating for membership of the first of these bodies. He has served six years on the Kawakawa Town Board, and 25 years as chairman of the Kawakawa Domain Board. He is the local Chamber of Commerce's last president and a member of the Businessmen’s Association. For 25 years he was secretary to the Bay Acclimatisation Society. He has been president of the Bay Golf Club and of the Kawakawa Tennis and Cricket Associations. Formerly chairman and secretary respectively of the patriotic and Red Cross organisations.

MR. H. M. COOKSON.—(See Bay of Islands County Council).

MR. A. YV. EDWARDS.—With between 25 and 30 years’ experience in farming at Ngapuhi, near Kaikohe, Mr. “Bill” Edwards is an active man in local affairs, being a member of the Farmers’ Union, R.S.A., and Kaikohe School Committee. He has also been a director of the Kaikohe Co-operative Dairy Company for some years, and still a Kaikohe Club golfer.

MRS. M.'E. JOHNSTON.—Standing against 12 men, Mrs. E. M. Johnson is well known throughout Hokianga and the Bay. having been teaching at Waima with her husband for years. Since last July she has acted as headmistress of the Kaikohe Native School. She is now residing at Paihia. First president of the Bay of Islands Federation of Women's Institutes and, earlier, a member of the Whangarei Federation, she is today Dominion organiser of Maori Women's Institutes. She has twice been president of the Northland Native Schoolteachers’ Branch of the N.Z.E.1.; chairman Paihia School Com.

MR. R. D. JOHNSON.—(See Kawakawa Town Board). Page 7.

MR. C. F. JONES.—(See Bay of Islands County Council).

MR. G. M. McINTYRE.—(See Bay of Islands County Council). MR. G. 11. McKENZIE.—(See Bay of Islands County Council).

MR. J. T. McKEOWN.—(See Bay of Islands County Council).

MR. G. M. ROSS.-—Having been a one-time Wairarapa rep., Mi\ George M. Ross became secretary to the local football club when he began farming in Maromaku in 1918, following his return from three and a-half years’ service overseas. He has been chairman of the Maromaku School Committee and Tennis Club, also president of the Towai Show Association. Mai'omaku Domain Board chairman.

MR. 11. W. RUSK.—Has spent only one term on the Bay Hospital Board. He has farmed in the Towai district for nearly 40 years and is a member of the Whangarei Farmers’ Union. He was appointed a director of the Hikurangi Co-op. Dairy Company to succeed Mr. Frank Elliott. A past president of the Kawakawa and District R.S.A. (1942), he is now its vice-president. He is also chairman of trustees for the Hukerenui Cemetery Board and a past-president of the Hukerenui Domain Board, besides having 11 years’ experience of school committee woi'k in Hukerenui. A Bay Rugby representative in 1923, he was formerly president Towai Rugby Club and Hukerenui cricket and tennis clubs.

MR. E. D. TAYLOR.—(See Bay of Islands County Council.) Kaikohe Town District (One Required.) MRS. BARBARA ORR.—A former vice-president of the North Auckland Trained Nurses’ Association and a commandant of the local V.A.D.’s, Mrs. Barbara Orr has lived in Kaikohe for 15 years, the last eight farming on Kaikohe Hill. She is a member of the executive committee of the Kaikohe Red Cross Sub-Centre, for which she lectured or assisted at lectures for five years. On the Kaikohe Library committee and is a W.D.F.U. member.

MR. P. MELVIN WlLLlAMS.—Appointed three years ago to replace Mr H. Ingram as Kaikohe representative, Mr. Williams is a chemist by profession. He has been a member of the Bay Hospital Executive. He was also hospital representative on the Kaikohe E.P.S. and was a member of the recent delegation to the Minister for Health in Kaikohe. Has been president of the Kaikohe Golf Club and Swimming Club. He is an examiner in life-saving.