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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24253, 21 March 1940, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr W. Easton returned to Dunedin from Wellington by the afternoon express yesterday. Mr P. Neilson. M.P., was a passenger for Wellington by the through express yesterday. The appointment of Mr Henry Seymour King, in place of Mr William Robertson, retired, and of Mr Felix Herbert Waters as members of the National Provident Board (states a Press Association message from Wellington) was gazetted last night. The National Council of the Y.M.C.A. has appointed Mr Harry Shove, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association, who is a public accountant practising in Auckland, its overseas commissioner. He is expected to leave with the third echelon. Mr Allan Wilkie, the well-known Shakespearean actor, in a letter to a relative in Dunedin, states that he is now living in retirement in Victoria, British Columbia. The war has interfered with his plans for a visit to Australia and New Zealand. Mr W. L. Stammers, a former pupil of the Southland Boys’ High School, has been promoted from the lower deck to the quarter deck of H.M.S. Achilles. Word to this effect has been received by his mother, Mrs W. S. Stammers, of Mount Eden, Auckland. After passing the matriculation examination Mr Stammers joined the staff of the D.1.C., Dunedin, but in 1936 he entered the accountancy branch of the navy, and last year passed for examination for commissioned rank. He was the first New Zealander to gain his commission in the accountancy branch of the navy under recent regulations. He was on the Achilles in the River Plate engagement. Mr W. Goodfellow has returned to Auckland after a three months’ visit to England, He went by way of the United States and Canada, but returned by air as far as Sydney. The death of Mr J. B, Wright, European manager of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of which Mr Goodfellow is managing director, made the trip to England necessary „ South-bound passengers by Union Airways yesterday afternoon were Mr R Hal combe from New Plymouth, Mrs Van Stavern from Wellington, Mr C. G. Chesterman. Mrs J. R. Henderson, Mr G. A. Hutt. Mr A. Smillie and Mr J L. Griffen from Christchurch. Mr Anthony H. Thomson, president of the New Zealand and Australian Chiropractors’ Association, left Dunedin yesterday for Wellington in order to attend the twentieth annual conference of the association. Mr John Buckland-Wright (Nelson and Dunedin) is at present engaged on camouflage work in England (says our London correspondent, writing on March 1). He has recently exhibited wood and copper engravings at exhibitions organised by the British Council in Oslo and Copenhagen, and he has been chosen, with only five other wood engravers, to represent the British section at the twenty-second Biennale International Exhibition of Fine Art at Venice from May to November.

As a result of a number of changes in executive positions in the Railways Department in the Auckland district, Mr T. Miller, who has been- transport officer at Dunedin for the past 12 months, has been promoted to the position of stationmaster at Frankton Junction. Mr J. Barnett, stationmaster at Westport, will become goods agent at Dunedin. Mr Miller was born at Rangiora, and joined the service as a cadet in the Dunedin Railway Telegraph Office 35 years ago. He gamed experience at various stations in the Otago district, where he acted as relieving stationmaster and in other capacities. In '9lB he was appointed stationmaster at Balfour, and then spent seven years in the office of the district traffic manager at Invercargill. After a further period of about seven years in the transport and tram running office in Dunedin, he was appointed traffic inspector, a position which he held for about 18 months. He was then transferred to the train running office in Christchurch, and on March 1 of last year he was appointed transport officer at Dunedin.