PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23306, 16 September 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr E. J. McLauchlan was elected president of the Southland Rowing Association at the annual meeting last evening.

Mr E. H. Patton, teller in the money order and savings bank, Invercargill, has been transferred to Waihi as supervisor.

Messrs Miklos Szabados and Istvan Kelen, the Hungarian table tennis players, arrived in Invercargill by the midday express yesterday. The Anglican Bishop of Dunedin (the Rt. Rev. W. A. R. Fitchett) arrived in Invercargill yesterday. He will visit several country centres before returning to Dunedin on Monday. Messrs R. Pickford (Dunedin), F. H. Wilson (Christchurch), K. Kennedy and L. W. Green (Wellington), A. Ansell (Dunedin) and R. B. Whitehead (Otautau) are at the Club Hotel. Mr Carson Shea, of Wellington, has arrived in Invercargill to take over the management of the Majestic Theatre. Mr C. H. Brittenden, who was acting manager pending the arrival of Mr Shea, has returned to Gore.

Mr J. R. Haigh, formerly of Invercargill, who is now sales manager for the Associated Motorists Petrol Co. Ltd., Wellington, arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening. He will return north on Saturday. Mr P. B. Bryden, assistant district engineer, New Zealand Railways, at Invercargill has been notified of his transfer on promotion to Christchurch and will leave on Saturday to take up duty as assistant district engineer in that city. Mr N. Brown (Seacliff) and Messrs A. L. Hark (Lawrence), W. H. J. Christie (Wellington), H. Hart (Dunedin), M. Szabados and I. Kelen (Hungary), H. E. Berry (Sydney), T. England (Dunedin), R. M. Adams (Christchurch), P. Curley (Dunedin) and T. V. Stokes (Melbourne) are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr S. A. Miller, of Invercargill, had a delightful trip from Australia bj the Strathnaver (says the London correspondent of The Otago Daily Times, writing on August 25). He expects to be in England for about three months, and his idea is to travel through England, Scotland and Wales by motorcycle. Later he will fly to Paris to set the exhibition. Mr Miller’s family has relatives in Ilfracombe, North Devon, and he hopes to be able to meet some of them.

Mr N. A. Mitchell, the Southland and New Zealand Rugby football representative, left yesterday for Auckland, where he will play in a match on Saturday. After the third Test against South Africa on September 25 he will return to Dunedin, where he will live. Before his departure Mr Mitchell was met by the executive and senior players of the Old Boys Football Club and presented with a smoker’s stand. In making the presentation, Mr T. R Pryde, president of the club, referred to the distinction Mr Mitchell had broueht to himself and his club during his Rugby career in Southland. Mr ly L. Crawford, on behalf of the players, paid a tribute to Mr Mitchell’s ability and to his wide popularity. Mr Mitchell replied. Mr M. C. Fairbrother, who has been appointed secretary to the Automobile Association (Southland), was for five years assistant county clerk to the Masterton Borough Council, followed by four and a-half years in Western Samoa as private secretary and aide de to the Administrator, Sir Herbert

Hart. After returning to New Zealand early in 1936, he received an appointment to the Public Works District Office, Wellington, which controlled tht traffic inspector’s staff. Nine weeks ago he was transferred on promotion to the Commercial Broadcasting Service, Wellington, as assistant accountant. He passed the Public Service entrance and accountant’s preliminary examinations and during the last three years passed in nine subjects of professional accountancy, with one more subject to complete. He received a commission in the New Zealand Territorial Forces in 1926, which he still holds. Mr Fairbrother will begin his new duties on October 1.