PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24620, 30 May 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal The Governor-General, Sir ' Gyril Newall, yesterday received the executive officers of the Auckland branch, of the Navy League. Later, their Excellencies visited the Auckland Teachers’ Training College. ' > Ministerial • The Minister of Agriculture and Marketing. Mr J. G. Barclay, arrived from the north yesterday afternoon. He will open the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Winter Show this afternoon, and in the evening will attend a conference with .Otago runholders to discuss the meat situation. Mr C. M. Bruce was a passenger for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday . .. Mr P. Neilson. M.P., was a passenger for Wellington by the mid-day express yesterday. Dr R. J. T. Bell returned by the through express yesterday from Christchurch.

Mr G. W. Lane returned by the express yesterday afternoon from Wellington.

Mr H. L. Gibson, president of the South Islands Travel Association, left last evening for Invercargill.

Major-general Young, New Zealand Commander'of the Home Guard. left yesterday morning for Gore after inspecting units of the guard in the Dunedin area. .1

Mr Justice Kennedy, who has been presiding at the quarterly sittings of the Supreme Court at Invercargill, will return to, Dunedin to-night., Mr James Begg and Mr A. S. Holms (Waimahaka) left by the through express yesterday for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Meat Producers’ Board. •*,

, Mr W. : R. Sinclair , and Mr. Alan Wood, who had been' attending a meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association at Wellington, returned by the express last evening. a-

, The Rev. J. A. Fraser, formerly of Milton, was" last night inducted by Bishop Fitchetf as vicar of All Saints’ Church, Gladstone, Invercargill.' According to a . Press Association cablegram from London, news from. Nazi-occupied Jersey has been received by a friend in. London that Canon Wilford, of Christchurch, is safe.

Cabled advice has been received that Captain A. L. Hogg, : N.Z;A., and /: Pri-, vate Godfrey G. Thomson,, who- were previously reported missing; are now, safe and well. Driyeh "John Bardsley is also reported safe and well,! ' ’ . Mr Noel V. Wade, of Sydney, formerly assistant representative in Australia for the Manchester Ship; Canal Company (the port authority for -Manchester. has been appointed the company’s representative for Australia and New Zealand, in succession to the late Captain W. J. Wade. M.B.E. Administrative changes in the senior staff of the Department of Healthwere announced by the Minister of Health, Mr A. H. Nordmeyef, last night. Dr R. A. Shore will relinquish his present position of director of the hospitals division, and will have the full-time office of deputy directorgeneral of health v ,Dr..L. J ,C,-McNickle; inspector of hospitals, will succeed Dr* Shore." ■ .;

Passengers by the northbound plane, yesterday? were; Miss C. Hegarty, Mr Jagusch, ’and Mr L. Fisher, for Wellington, and Mr and Mrs A. Shirley for Auckland. Passengers by the southbound;: plane were: Mr and--Mrs W. Wix from Auckland, Mrs C. Hensley from , and Mr_D. Lang-C ley from 1