PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24002, 18 December 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr W. M. C. Denham, M.P., leaves Invercargill by this morning’s express on a visit to Wellington. Mr A. Ibbotson, general manager of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co., Ltd., returned to Dunedin on Saturday after a short business visit to Invercargill. Mr Murray A. Fastier, organist at the Waitaki Boys’ High School, is a visitor to the south for a. few days before going to Sydney to give a series of recitals on the city organ under contract to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Mr . Fastier is a pupil of Marcel Dupre who has been playing over the same network just recently. Mr W. Egerton, of the Gore Staff of the Southland Electric Power Supply, has received advice of his transfer to Winton. Mr Egerton, who has been at Gore for the last 18 months, will begin his new duties in the New Year. Mr C. M. Crawford, who has been attached to the Gore staff of the T. and G. Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited for the last six months, has been transferred to Milton. Mr Crawford will take up his new duties early in the New Year. Mr John Gray, who was ,a member of the staff of William Smith and Company, Limited, before going into camp at Burnham, was met by the management and staff of the company and presented with a wallet of notes. The presentation was made by Mr D. J. Wesney who expressed the good wishes of employers and employees and extended congratulations to Mr Gray on his approaching marriage. Major C. V. Sugden, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed second in command of the 27th Machine Gun Battalion, First Echelon, Special Force. He has been acting for some weeks as camp commandant at Waiouru. A graduate of the Royal Military College of Australia, Major Sugden has been 20 years with the New Zealand Staff Corps. His appointments over this period included service in India from 1920 to 1922. He has been stationed at Trentham, Palmerston North, Masterton, Wellington, Nelson and Blenheim, and at the outbreak of war was adjutant of the Ist Battalion of the Canterbury Regiment at Christchurch. Promoted captain in 1926, Major Sugden was one of a number of staff corps officers promoted to the rank of Major at the beginning of the war.