HARBOUR BOARDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 6

HARBOUR BOARDS

GOVERNMENT NOMINEES I By Tsleeraph - Press Assorts (loti 1 WELLINGTON. This Day. Mr John Oldham Johnson, secretary of the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union, has been appointed Government representative on the Wellington Harbour Board. He will replace Mr Andrew Fletcher, who has been a member of the board for eight years, and whose term expires on 27th April. The following have been appointed as Government representatives on provincial harbour boards:— Messrs Edward James Bo water, Foxton: William Rowe Clark and Richard Murray, Gisborne: David Emery Higgins and Norman William Naylor. Havelock: Edward Jasper Herrick and Luther Stephenson. Napier; James Ryland Cruickshank, New Plymouth; Daniel Mourie, Opunake; Frank Parsons. Patea; Patrick Joseph O’Kane, and I Harry Lionel Harker, Wairoa; Darnell j Dwyer, Wanganui. NEW LYTTELTON MEMBER CHRISTCHURCH, 29th March, j Mr R. E. Cairns, of Lyttelton, haa j been appointed Government represenI tative on the Lyttelton Harbour Board | as from 27th April, in place of Mr W. T. j Lester, whose term expires next month, t j Mr Cairns, who is a waterside worker, j is a member of the Lyttelton Borough ; Council, to which he was elected un- | opposed at a by-election two years ago. | He has served on the council as chairman of the gas and electricity corni mittee. He is also secretary-treasurer Jof the Lyttelton branch of the New | Zealand Labour Party.