PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22069, 27 September 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr P. R. Sargood and Mr G. Z. Lindley left yesterday morning for Wellington.

Mr F. C. Seabrook left on his return to Christchurch yesterday morning after a visit to Dunedin. Messrs J. J. Marlow and J. B. Shacklock left for Wellington yesterday morning with the object of interviewing members of the Government with respect to alterations in the Waitaki power agreement.

Mr W. Hume, of the Hume Pipe Company, left yesterday morning on his return to Australia, and was accompanied by Mr W. M. Jeffery, of the same company, who will travel to Auckland. Mr 0. K. P. Morriston, of the India Rubber Tyre Company, London, who has been in Dunedin for the past few days, left yesterday by ear for the north. Mr 0. L. Finer, president of the Otago Wrestling Association, accompanied by Mrs Finer, left by motor yesterday for Christchurch, en route to Wellington, where he will attend a conference of the Dominion of New Zealand \ Wrestling Union, to be held in Wellington on Monday next. * The new’comtnodore of the Broad Bay Boating Club will be Mr J. C. H. Somerville. No other nomination having been received, Mr Somerville will be appointed to that important office at the annual meeting of the club to-morrow night. Mr Peter Mackenzie, of Walter Peak Station, Lake Wakatipu, returned to Dunedin on Monday after a business visit to the Blenheim district and the North Island. Mr Mackenzie crossed from Wellington to Blenheim in the Marlborough Aero Club’s plane piloted by Mr A. 0. Willis on the evening prior to the accident in which the plane was Involved with such disastrous consequences. It was announced yesterday (says a Press Association message from Wellington) that Mr F. W. Furby, chief postmaster at Palmerston North, had been appointed chief postmaster at Christchurch. Mr Furby succeeds Mr F. J. Shanks, who has been promoted second assistant secretary to the Post Office. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the following officers were elected at the annual, conference of secretaries of New Zealand Electric Power Boards:—President, Mr W. A. Day (Franklin); secretary, Mr G. E. Fowler (Waipukurau); committee —Messrs' C. Campbell (Invercargill), 6. Browne (Carterton), W. M'Arthur (Te Awamutu), H. Wyllie (Napier), K. Eglington (Manawatu), and A. Owen (Christchurch). Before his departure from Timaru to take up an appointment as relieving officer in the General Post Office, Mr G. Clark, chief postmaster, was met by one of the largest gatherings of officers held in Timaru and presented with an angler’s outfit—reel, line and landing net. Mr Clark, who is well known in this city, where he was stationed prior to his transfer to Oamaru and then to Timaru, arrived in Dunedin yesterday to relieve the chief postmaster (Mr J. P. P. Clouston), who has commenced his annual leave.