PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23793, 15 April 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr F. G. Hall-Jones and Mr G. M. Broughton, of Invercargill, are at present visiting Dunedin and Waimate. They will return to Invercargill on Sunday evening. Mr E. J. Herrick, of Hastings, and Major R. A. Wilson, of Bulls, arrived in Invercargill last night after a wapitihunting trip in the Bligh Sound district. They will leave for the north this morning. Mr J. J. W. Pooley, whose appointment as clerk of the court at Gore was recently announced, has declined the appointment, and Mr L. R. Higgins, of New Plymouth, has been appointed in his place. The Mayor of Bluff (Mr John Cameron) left by yesterday afternoon’s express for Wellington, He will represent the Bluff Waterside Workers’ Union at a conference.

Mr W. G. Thompson, publicity manager for Warner Brothers First National Pictures (New Zealand), who has been visiting Invercargill to make preliminary arrangements for the screening of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” at the Regent Theatre next month, left for the north by yesterday afternoon’s train.

Dr E. Marsden, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, left on Thursday for England, via Australia, on business relating to the department’s activities. He is also on special leave, writing the biography of Lord Rutherford, which will have special reference to New Zealand, but about which he desires to collect material covering the last 10 years of Lord Rutherford’s life in England.—Press Association.

Mr S. Slocombe, who has been an assistant teacher at the Middle school for the past five years, has received notice of his appointment as a secondary assistant at the Featherston District High School. He will leave Invercargill about the middle of May and will take up his new. duties at the beginning.of the second term. Mr Slocombe is secretary of the Invercargill and Suburban School Sports Association and of the football committee of the association.

The Dominion organizer of the New Zealand Garage Proprietors’ Association, Mr H. Everett, is at present visiting Invercargill. Mr C. O. Trownson, collector of Customs at Christchurch for the last eight years, has announced his retirement after 41 years in the service. He was born in Dunedin where he also began his long career in the Customs Department. He was educated at the Union street school and at the Otago Boys’ High School, and, in 1898, at 17 years of age, he joined the Dunedin office of the department. He remained in Dunedin till 1904 and in the following year was transferred to Wellington as statistical . clerk in the head office. In 1906 he returned to the Dunedin office of the department as examining officer, remaining at that post till 1914 when he went to Blenheim where he was collector for two years. From 1917 to 1919 he was senior examining officer at Wellington. The next eight years he spent in Dunedin as inspector and assistant sub-collector of customs, and in 1925-26 was in charge of the Customs branch at the Dunedin Exhibition. Mr Trownson went to Christchurch in 1931 as .sub-collector and three years later lie was appointed collector.