PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23024, 19 October 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon. T. F. Doyle, M.L.C., returned to Bluff from Wellington at the week-end.

Messrs J. Cleary, Romerill and J. Thomson (all of Dunedin) are among the recent arrivals at the Club Hotel. Messrs F. Powsett (Auckland), S. Hilton (Christchurch) and J. Payne (Wellington) are among the recent arrivals at the Grand Hotel. Mr E. J. Bassett, of the Christchurch branch of John Burns and Company, Ltd., has been appointed accountant to the head office of his company in Auckland.

Messrs A. Dey and W. G. Garrard, of Christchurch, who have been making a hurried trip through Central Otago and the southern lakes, were visitors to Invercargill yesterday. Mr J. H. Lindon, general manager for New Zealand of the Vacuum Oil Co., Pty., Ltd., accompanied by Mr E. Angus Jones, assistant general manager, is visiting the South Island.

Dr W. B. Reekie, of Otautau, who is medical officer to No. 4 Squadron of the New Zealand Air Force, proceeded to Wigram last evening to attend the biennial instruction course of his squadron. At the annual meeting of the Gladstone Tennis Club on Saturday afternoon reference was made to the services given to the club by Mr R. S. Mclnnes, who had been transferred to Wellington. A minute of appreciation was recorded.

Mr I. D. Blair, M.Agr.Sc., Dip.Agr., who has been filling a temporary position on the Canterbury Agricultural College research staff, was appointed assistant in biology to Mr J. W. Calder, M.Sc., B.Agr., at a recent meeting of the college board of governors.

Mr H. Williams, district solicitor on the staff of the Public Trust Office at New Plymouth for 12 years, will leave shortly on transfer to the head office at Wellington as assistant solicitor. He will be succeeded by Mr H. Robb, of the Wellington office. Mr T. P. Sewell, who recently retired from the X-ray department of the Christchurch Hospital, and who was for some years a member of the Canterbury and Edgeware Bowling Clubs, has been appointed secretary of the Dubbo Bowling Club, New South Wales. The Rev. Albert Mead, of Moray Place Congregational Church, Dunedin, who has been in England on an exchange ministry, left for New Zealand, by way of South Africa, on October 2. Mr Mead is to address the assembly meetings of the Congregational Union of South Africa on arrival at Cape Town to-day. Reference to the loss the Waihopai Bowling Club had suffered by the deaths during the year of Mr P. Winders, Mr A. E. Pittaway and the Hon. A. F. Hawke was made by the club president, Mr W. H. Pickford, at the official opening of the club’s season on Saturday afternoon. They had been three very valued members of the club, he said.