PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr James Begg is at present in Wellington attending a meeting of the Meat Board. . Crs Marlow and Shacklock and the city electrical engineer (Mr M. C. Henderson) left for Wellington yesterday on corporation business. Mr A. N. Smith left yesterday for Christchurch. Mr 0. J. Wilson left Dunedin yesterday for Christchurch.

Mr J. C. Begg, honorary director of the Otago Institute’s observatory, has been nominated without opposition for the position of president of the 'New Zealand Astronomical Society, and will assume office next month.

Mr R. Sincock, of the Wanganui office of the Government Tourist Department, is at present on a holiday visit to Dunedin.

Mr Arthur Craig, of Greenfield, a member of the Wheat Marketing Board, passed through Dunedin on his return from Christchurch yesterday afternoon. Mr G. W. Thomson, who has been absent from the Dominion on a business visit to London, returned to Dunedin by the express from the north yesterday afternoon.

Mr J. Malcolm, of the Government Tourist Department’s Invercargill office, is paying a! visit to Dunedin. Mr John Fuller arrived in Dunedin from Wellington yesterday afternoon on a short business visit.

Mr R. A. Usmar, publicity represent a--tive of British Dominions Films, arrived in Dunedin by the express from the north yesterday afternoon. , Mr S. W. M. Stilling, of Wellington, representative in New Zealand of the Australian National Travel Association, will arrive in town by this evening’s express, and will return to Christchurch on Monday morning. The retirement for health reasons is announced of Mr C. A. Thompson, manager of the North Dunedin branch of the Bank of New Zealand.' Some two years ago Mr Thompson was badly burned about the face by ammonia which was thrown at him by a man who attempted to rob the bank’s office at North-East Valley, where Mr Thompson was on duty at the time, and since then he has been in indifferent health. Mr Thompson joined the Colonial Bank at Lawrence in 1893, and two years later, when that institution was obsorbed by the Bank of New Zealand, he was retained in the employ of the latter. He was later transferred to Timaru, where he remained for about 18 months, and was afterwards stationed at Port Chalmers. After eight years there he was transferred to the main Otago office in Dunedin, where he became assistant accountant. In 1920 he was appointed manager at Queenstown, but returned to Dunedin three years later as chief accountant, and took over the duties of manager of the North Dunedin branch in December, 1930. Mr Thompson’s retirement dates from the end of this year, and his successor at North Dunedin will be Mr R. Frisk, who is at present manager of the Lawrence branch. Mr Thompson is now on sick leave and will commence a holiday trip to the north on Tuesday. He expects to be away about six, weeks.