PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23335, 20 October 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Messrs J. Ironside (Dunedin) and J. P. Stoop (Wellington) are at the Club Hotel.

Mr D. Harris left by the express yesterday afternoon for Dunedin, where he will attend a sitting of the Conciliation Council. He returns to Invercargill tomorrow. ’ Mr L. E. Gielgud, under-secretary of the International League of Red Cross Societies, accompanied by Mrs Gielgud, left Auckland by the Monterey for Los Angeles.

Reference to the death of Mr R. Sangster, a tramway motorman, was made at the meeting of the City Council last evening, and a resolution of sympathy was carried. Mr Russell Reid, of Invercargill, has left for Wellington to accept a position with the play-writing department of the National Broadcasting Service. Mr Reid has been studying at Otago University for the past few years. Mr D. F. Hobbs, Freshwater Fisheries Biologist to the Marine Department, who has spent some weeks in research work for the Southland Acclimatization Society, will leave for the north this morning.

Mr E. Mackay, who has been employed as general clerk to the Eastbourne Borough Council for the past five years, has been appointed clerk and overseer to the Mount Hutt Road Board. He will take up his duties at the beginning of November. Messrs J. S. Sinclair, E. K. Seymour, E. Prenwick, N. Miles, R. Duthie, E. Butcher, J. C. Duncan and S. Owens (Dunedin), W. Johnston and S. Sims (Christchurch) and A. A. Evans and A. J. Storer (Wellington) and Dr A. Kidd (Waipiata) are at the Grand Hotel. Mr G. Gunn has been appointed to represent the Umpires’ Association on the management committee of the Southland Cricket Association. The chairman (Mr H. Grace) extended a welcome to Mr Gunn at the meeting of the committee last evening. Mr N. L. Reid, who for the past year has been manager of Whitcombe and Tombs’s Invercargill branch, will leave shortly on transfer to the head office, Christchurch. Mr W. A. Purvis, of the Christchurch staff, has arrived in Invercargill to take over the management of the branch here.

Mr Milton Vickery, of Wellington, chairman of the Church of Christ Home Mission Board, arrived in Invercargill by the express last night. Mr Vickery is one of the vice-presidents of the World Conference of the Churches of Christ. He will be the speaker at the annual district conference at Edendale on Monday next.