PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23651, 28 October 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr F. G. Nind, senior inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department, who has been acting chief postmaster in Dimedin during the absence of Mr N. R. Mclsaac on annual leave, returned north yesterday. Mr R. A. Wallis, of Gore, left Bluff by the Maunganui for Melbourne yesterday. Mr J. W. Mawson, Director of Town Planning, met members of the Invercargill City Council and the Southland County Council yesterday and discussed with them several matters involving town planning. He will leave for Dunedin today. Mr N. R. Mclsaac, chief postmaster in Dunedin, who has been on a motoring holiday in the Otago and Southland country districts during the past few weeks, returned to Dunedin to resume duty yesterday. Mr W. J. Hezlehurst, a member of the Tour and Travel Committee and the Exploitation Committee of the Golden Gate 1939 Exposition of San Francisco, to be opened in February, was a passenger in the Maunganui, which left Bluff for Melbourne yesterday. Mr Hezlehurst is also the Australian and New Zealand representative of the Pacific Greyhound Line.

The Rev. Laurence A. North, formerly minister of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, Christchurch, was elected general secretary of the Baptist Union of New Zealand and treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society at yesterday afternoon’s session of the New Zealand Baptist Assembly now meeting in Wellington. Mr North will take up his new appointment after the assembly. He will replace the present secretary, the Rev. M. W. P. Lascelles, who has announced his intention to retire after occupying the office for 16 years.—Press Association. When H.M.S. Achilles leaves Auckland in December, Captain J. W. RivettCarnac, R.N., will succeed Captain I. G. Glennie as commodore of the New Zealand squadron.—Press Association.