STATE ADVANCES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 7

STATE ADVANCES

NEW BOARD DIRECTOR FORMER M.P. APPOINTED • United Press Automation 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr David Barnes, former Labour member for Waitaki. who was defeated by the National candidate, Mr D. f!. Kidd, at the general election in October last, has been appointed a director of the State Advances Corporation cf New Zealand. The State Advances Corporation Act provides that the board of management shall consist of two joint managing directors, appointed for a term not exceeding seven years, one or more other directors to be appointed from

time to time by the Governor-General in Council, to hold office during pleasure. and an ex-offico director representing the Treasury, as approved by the Minister of Finance. The board at present consists of Messrs A. D. Park and T. N. Smallwood, joint managing directors; G. A. Lewin, director; and B. C. Ashwin, first assistant to the Treasury, who is direc - tor ex-officio. Mr Barnes was born in Coupe, Lancashire, England, in 1894. He received his primary education at the public school in that village, and later went to the Kirk Grammar School. He emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 17 years with his parents, who took up farming in Canterbury, first near! Christchurch and later at Waipara. j Mr Barnes was working on his j father’s farm when the Great War j broke out, and enlisted in December. 1914, and served at Gallipoli with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. He was wounded on 27th August, 1915, and was invalided back to Egypt, and

later to New Zealand. He bacame interested in aviation in Sockburn, and re-enlisted in the Flying Corps in 1917. He was one of the first 100 pilots to go through Sockburn, and in February. 1918, went to England with a pilot’s certificate in the Flying Corps. After instruction in England, Mr Barnes obtained his commission and was engaged in flying in England when the Armistice was signed. He returned to New Zealand in September, 1919. and after managing a number of holdings, took up land in 1927 in Fairlie, where he now resides, Mr Barnes has taken an active interest in farmers’ problems. He was a foundation member of the Crown Tenants’ Association, and was president of the Fairlie branch in 1934-35, as well as being delegate to the central association. He started the Fairlie branch of the New Zealand Labour Party. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1935.

‘I seut my lit.tie boy for two pounds of plums, aud you have sent ojily a pound and a half.” “My scales are all right* madam. Have you weighed your little T hear your wife insists on going to Monte Carlol"’ ‘‘\es, she is mad on it. Hut I put my foot down absolutely.” ‘‘She’s not going, then?” “Well, uot with niv consent.”