PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23287, 25 August 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr John Dunlop, of Edendale, left by the express for Christchurch yesterday on his way to Wellington for a meeting of the New' Zealand Dairy Board. Mr F. J. Williams, president of the South Island Motor Union, left Dunedin yesterday for Wanganui to attend the annual meeting of the North Island Motor Union. Mr H. C. Gimblett, /clerk of the Southland County Council, was yesterday elected a member of the executive committee of the New Zealand County Clerks’ Association at the conference in Wellington. Mr D. W. McKay, chairman of the Invercargill Fruit Brokers’ Association, left yesterday for Wellington to attend a conference of the Npw Zealand Fruit Brokers’ Association, which will be held today. Mr G. R. Martin, inspector of machinery at Hamilton, has been appointed surveyor to Lloyd’s Register in Dunedin in succession to Mr W. J. Crawford, who has filled the position for nearly 15 years. Dr P. R. Kolbe, president of the Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, who with Mrs Kolbe has been spending part of a vacation in New Zealand, left Auckland for the United States by the Monterey. Dr J. R. Cameron, a former New Zealander, who is now professor 6f oral surgery at Temple University, Philadelphia, left Auckland on his return to the United States by the Monterey after a brief visit to the Dominion. Dr P. S. de Q. Cabot, an outstanding student of Otago University, who has won distinction in educational circles in the United States, left Auckland by the Monterey on his return after a visit of six weeks to the Dominion. Messrs A. S. Holms, E. K. Sim, and H. Smith left by the express yesterday to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Meat Board at Wellington. Messrs James Begg and J. D. Revie, the Otago delegates, left Dunedin. Mr L. J. Greenberg, who has resigned his position as secretary of the Wellington Y.M.C.A., is to leave for Dunedin tonight. Mr Greenberg has been appointed station manager at 4ZB under the National Broadcasting Service. Messrs N. Cookson, I. Ambridge and H. James (Christchurch), I. Anderson and A. H. Thomas (Dunedin), L. -M. Schrader, H. J. Porter and W. A. Cowall (Wellington) and E. E. Miller (Auckland) are at the Grand Hotel. Mr Gilbert Porter, a former captain of the Southland Rugby football team, is visiting Invercargill. Mr Porter was a member of the Southland team that won the Ranfurly Shield at Carterton in 1929. He represented Southland for six years, from 1928 to 1933. Mr Alex Churcher, who has spent nearly two years in New Zealand as a Toe H worker, will leave by the Mariposa from Auckland on September 20. He is returning to England by way of Canada and the United States to take up an appointment on the headquarters staff of Toe H in London. Mr J. Harold Glover, Johannesburg, manager of the Southern Life Association of Africa, who has been visiting Christchurch, accompanied by Mrs Glover, left yesterday for a visit to the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers and the West Coast. They will leave for Sydney by the Wanganella on September 2 to return to South Africa in October.