PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24237, 21 September 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

• After conferring with members of the Southland Education Board and inspecting a number of schools in the city yesterday morning, the Minister of Education (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) left for Gore, where in the afternoon he opened the new technical block of the Gore High School. From Gore the Minister travelled to Queenstown, where he will spend the week-end. Mr Mason expects to return to Wellington on Tuesday night.

The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) discussed the rural housing possibilities in Southland with members of the Southland and Wallace County Councils yesterday. He also attended the annual meeting of the Southland Fanners’ Co-opera-tive Association, Limited, as chairman, of directors. Today he will unveil a memorial tablet in the Forest Hill hall commemorating the golden jubilee of the Forest Hill school. He will leave Invercargill for Dunedin on Monday afternoon and will travel to Wellington on Tuesday. Mr W. Grieve returned to Invercargill last night after a visit to Christchurch and to Wellington. In Wellington, Mr Grieve attended the conference of the Motor -Trades Federation as a member of the New Zealand executive. He also interviewed the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr J. G. Young) on behalf of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce and the Southland Progress League and discussed the question of the night clearance of mails in Invercargill with him. In Christchurch Mr Grieve visited the Union Jack Soldiers’ Club.

Mr W. J. Thomas, a member of the Invercargill City Council, was nominated by the Southland County Council yesterday as one- of the two representatives of the City Council, the County Council and the South Invercargill Borough Council on the Southland Technical College Board of Managers. The vacancy on the board was caused by the retirement of Mr W. McChesney. Mr H. C. Gimblett, county clerk, is the other local body representative on the board. Mr Percy Shaw, a director of Sargood, Son and Ewen, Ltd., will arrive in Invercargill by the express tonight. Mr Shaw, who now lives in Auckland, was formerly manager of the Invercargill branch of the firm. While in Invercargill he played a prominent part in the city’s cultural and sporting activities. He will leave again for the north on Tuesday. Lieutenant H. M. Hopper, 20th Company (Bluff) of the National Military Reserve, Class 11, has been promoted to the rank of captain. Mr E. J. Ritchie, exchange clerk at Thornbury, took up duty in a similar capacity in the Invercargill telephone exchange yesterday. Mr A. E. Crimp, who has been relieving Mr L. Higgins as clerk of the Gore Magistrate’s Court during the last three weeks, returned to Invercargill by the express last night. Mr H. C. Harley has retired from the presidency of the Automobile Association, Canterbury, after three years in office. At a meeting of the council of the association on Thursday many tributes were paid to Mr Harley’s work. Mr Harley will be succeeded by Mr C. G. Curtis, who is president-elect. Messrs T. Browne, A. S. Donnelly, C. H. Brumby, T. M. Lohrey, G. Mulvey, E. D. Calder, C. J. G. Smith and W. J. Moir, officers of the Chief Post Office staff, Invercargill, who are going into camp for overseas service, were honoured at a dance arranged by the Chief Post Office Social Club, which was held in the Bowmont street hall on Thursday evening. The chief postmaster, Mr H. Miller, wished the men a speedy and safe return. Mr Brown replied on behalf of the men.