PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23947, 13 October 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr S. M. Macalister, president of the Southland Acclimatization Society, left Invercargill by express yesterday morning for Timaru.where he will attend the conference of South Island Acclimatization Societies.

Mr J. A. Gilmour, chairman of the Court of Arbitration, paid an official visit to Mataura yesterday to study the working conditions of the Mataura Paper Mill employees, in view of the new award which is pending.

Mr S. W. Gasper, national president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and Mr L. Mcllvride, general secretary of the society, will arrive by the midday express today to attend the jubilee celebrations of the Invercargill branch of the society.

Mr L. H. Wills, of the mechanical staff of The Southland Times, who leaves for Trentham camp on Sunday evening, was met yesterday by his fellow employees and presented with a shaving outfit. Mr W. F. Bissel, advertising manager, who made the presentation, expressed the hope that Mr Wills would have a successful career in the Army and that he would soon return to his work.' Other speakers were Messrs G. J. Hope, H. Read, J. E. Lawry and J. Birss.

Messrs W. Campbell and 1. Mills, employees of the Invercargill branch of Sargood, Son and Ewen, who have been accepted for the special force, were met by the manager, Mr P. B. Witt, and staff and presented with gifts. Mr Witt handed to Mr Campbell a shaving outfit and to Mr Mills • a fountain pen and propelling pencil. Mr E. J. Boyd was elected president of the Southland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the annual meeting of the society last evening.

Mr D. B. Hamilton of the Department of Agriculture, Dunedin, is at present visiting his family at Bluff.

Mr E. J. Luzmoor last night was elected to fill the vacancy on the council of the Southland Acclimatization Society caused by the death of Mr J. H. Thomas.

Mr David Allen has been appointed the stock and station agents’ representative on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, replacing Sir William Hunt, whose death occurred recently. —Press Association.

The appointment of Messrs H. C. Beuke, C. G. Boyes, K. J. Holyoake, S. O’Hara and B. T. Rowling as members of the Hop Marketing Committee is gazetted.—Press Association.

A motion of sympathy with the relations of Colonel G. Mitchell, who before his death was a member of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was passed at the annual meeting of the Southland society last night.