PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 22915, 13 June 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr A. F. Hawke was a passenger to Invercargill by the express last evening. Mr D. McDougall, M.P., arrived in Invercargill by the midday express yesterday. Mr Eustace Russell was a passenger for Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr C. Daniels, of Wellington, arrived in Invercargill by the express last night and is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Mi- J. Reid Gerrard left during the week to take up a position in the Government Labour Department, Wellington. Mr A. Sutherland was appointed organizer *of the Riverton centenary celebrations by the Board of Directors last night. The Mayor of Bluff (the' Rev. A. E. Waite) is at present confined to his home by illness. At the meeting of the Bluff Borough Council the members wished Mr Waite a speedy recovery. The Hon. T. O’Byrne, and the Hon. T. F. Doyle, members of the Legislative Council, and the Hon. Adam Hamilton, M.P., returned to Invercargill from Wellington by the express last night. Reference to the death of Mr W. Hinchey, a former Mayor and councillor of Bluff, was made at the meeting of the Bluff Borough Council by the deputy-Mayor (Cr. J. H. Doyle). It was decided to send a letter of condolence to the relatives of the late Mr Hinchey. Mr G. O. Fagan, of the exchange staff' of the Post Office at Gore, has been promoted to the Accountants Branch, Wellington. Messrs H. L. Thoroughgood (Winton) and C. M. Green (Pleasant Point) have been transferred to Gore as additions to the exchange staff. Dr P. C. Carman, a former pupil of the Southland Boys’ High School, who later gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy when at the London University, has been appointed lecturer in applied chemistry at the Cape Town University. Advice to this effect has just been received by Mr A. C. Carman, of Invercargill, father of Dr Carman. For the past two years Dr Carman, who will proceed to Cape Town in August, has been attached to the explosive branch, near Glasgow, of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. Cabled advice of the appointment of Mr Joseph G. Greeninger, now stationed at Karachi, India, to the office of American Consul at Auckland has been received by the present Consul, Mr Walter F. Boyle. Mr Groeninger, who will proceed to his new post as soon as possible, comes from the State of Maryland. He entered the United States Foreign Office in 1911 as ViceConsul at Copenhagen, since when he has served in Berlin, Esthonia, Rotterdam Java and Karachi, where he has been for the last five years. Mr Boyle is not aware to which post he will be transferred, but he is due for long leave of absence, which he intends to spend in the United States before taking up his new duties. —Press Association.