PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24850, 25 February 1942, Page 6

PERSONAL

Ministerial -.•» Mr Adam Hamilton, who is a'mem- J ber of the War Cabinet, w& a, sas- * senger for Wellington by the through < express from Invercargill yesterday. ; Mr G. R. Ritchis left for Wellington by the express yesterday. : -' Mr R. Wilson Brown was a p&ssen- ; ger for Wellington by the thrbujfe;*?- | press yesterday. «f *i*|3§ » Private E; M. Friedlander, \ been on sick leave, left yesterday-to . rejoin his unit. ''| | Mrs J. Clark has received word that I her :>on, Private N. F. < prisoner of war. - i~ :.^ v ¥ - Commander G. W. Morrison, JFtJI,, :■', who was on shore duty'at Hongkong < at the time of the Japanese attack, is reported missing. Mr Douglas Spedding and Mr L. R. Lopdell (Invercargill) left for Wellington yesterday to attend a meeting of - the council of the New Zealand Rugby Union. A resolution of sympathy in the death of Mr C. W. Frye was carried at. the annual meeting of the Dunedin.: Choral Society last night.,lt was stated that he had been a helpful and generous member of both the Dunedin. Choral Society's and the Dtuwdin Orchestral Society's orchestras. '.' Passengers for the north by air yesterday were: Captain . Q,, L... Tftcipr, Mr A. Barr Brown; Mr a EmhWßtiel, and Mrs N. Kennedy for Christchurch. Mr L. M. Satt?rthwaite, Mr W. R.J Brown, Mi- G. W. Reid, and Mr S. McCausland for Wellington. Passengers who arrived by the afternoon plane were; Mr and Mrs F. , A. Abbott and Miss T. T. Abbott , from Auckland, Mrs I. Ansell and Miss M. Robertson from Wellington, Mr W. L. Kilroy, Mrs Peter Wood, Mr J. * Mercer, Mr J. Williams, and Mr'R. W. Uren from Christchurch.

Captain Leonard Robertson, who was recently appointed superintendent \of mercantile marine in Dunedin; has had a long and adventurous career at sea. He was a nautical surveyor of ships for many years and acting supenntendent of mercantile marine in Auckland for the past 12 months. Capfi||h! Robertson, whose grandfather, iatSir, 1 and brother were master mariners, kit Wellington at the age of 20 as second mate of a large barquentine. He passed the examination for foreign' master in Sydney two years later and subsequently returned to New Zeafcuid, -• joining the Patea Shipping Company as mate and master. His next petition was master of the Union Steam, Ship Company's salvage tug Terawhiti.. Later he was officer In charge of the Lake Wakatipu shipping Service, ;<!bn--trolled by the Railways Department, for 12 years. He qualified for veicfa*: ; master, the highest certificate cibtiun-, able in the mercantile marine. He went to Auckland as surveyor of ships in 1928. mm