PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 22962, 7 August 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr J. S. Haywood was a passenger by the express to Dunedin yesterday afternoon en route to Napier. Mr R. H. Sutherland has been transferred from sole teacher at the Ferndunlaw School to assistant master at the Invercargill South School. Mr L. L. Elder, of the Lands and Survey Department, Invercargill, has received a surveyor’s cadetship and will leave for Napier at the end of this month.

Mr N. R. Mclsaac, Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, and formerly Chief Postmaster at Invercargill, arrived in Invercargill by the express yesterday afternoon. He is on holiday leave. Guests at the Grand Hotel include: Messrs O. Baxter and G. N. Walters (Auckland), K. Martin and J. C. Pirritt (Christchurch), W. McKenzie (Dunedin) and H. Withington (Wellington). Mr C. H. Wynyard, F.P.A.N.Z., of New Plymouth, president of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, arrived in Invercargill by the express yesterday afternoon. In the evening he addressed a meeting of members of the Southland branch of the society. He leaves for the north by this morning’s express.

Members of the head office staff of the Public Works Department, in addition to engineers and others from outside districts, were present in large numbers yesterday at a farewell function at Wellington in honour of Mr C. J. McKenzie, who recently resigned on account of ill-health from the position of Engineer-in-Chief and the Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department. Presentations were made to Mr McKenzie by the Minister of Public Works, the Hen. R. Semple, and tributes were also paid to him by Mr J. Wood, who has succeeded Mr McKenzie as Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary, and Mr F. S. Dyson, district engineer of the department at Auckland. —Press Association.