PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24354, 7 February 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) will arrive in Invercargill next Tuesday night. The following day he will inspect several Southland industries and will also be the guest of the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon to be held in the Tudor Lounge. The Minister will stay at the Grand Hotel while in Invercargill. He will leave the city on Thursday.

Mr J. A. Lee, M.P., leader of the Democratic Labour Party, and the Hon. W. E. Barnard, Speaker of the House of Representatives, will arrive in Invercargill today and will deliver addresses in the Victoria Concert Chamber tonight.

Flying Officer A. E. W. McDonald, who has been spending a few days’ leave in Invercargill, will return to Wigram Aerodrome by the express this morning.

The appointment of Dr C. B. Gilberd, of Hamilton, to the post of assistant medical superintendent at the Auckland Hospital was made by the Auckland Hospital Board at a special meeting. The new assistant-superintendent who is 39 years of age has had broad experience both on the practical and administrative side of medicine since his graduation in 1925. At the present time he is medical officer of health for South Auckland with his headquarters at Hamilton. Dr Gilberd was born at Wanganui and took the degrees of M. 8., and Ch.B. at Otago University.

The well-known New Zealand bass singer, Mr Oscar Natzke, who is to make a concert tour of the Dominion in association with the young Australian tenor, Mr Kenneth Neate, will give the first concert of the tour at Auckland on Saturday, February 22. Mr F. Jones, of Invercargill, will leave for Auckland tomorrow morning. He will go by plane from Dunedin and will return in a fortnight’s time. Mr A. E. Howell, of the Outram post office, has been transferred to the position of Cadet-in-charge at Pukerau to replace Mr H. E. Pittaway, who leaves for Wellington tomorrow. Mr J. Mitchell, of Bluff, left Invercargill by the afternoon express yesterday to spend a holiday in the north. The appointment of Mr P. W. Fryer as secretary and treasurer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board was confirmed at the meeting of the board on Wednesday. Mr Fryer is engineer to the board and has been acting secretary and treasurer. Mr H. W. MacDonald, who has been postmaster at Waikaia for the past seven years, has been transferred to Gore as senior telegraphist. His successor has not yet been appointed. Mr E. Sacharov, secretary to Dr C. Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, arrived in Auckland from the United States by the California Clipper on Sunday. Mr Sacharov is returning to Palestine after an absence of about a year and left on Monday for Sydney. Mr H. M. Millar, of the head office electrical engineering staff of the Public Works Department, is making an inspection visit to Invercargill. He will leave today for Dunedin. t Captain G. P. Dyer, a retired officer of the United States Navy, arrived in Auckland from Honolulu by the California Clipper this week on a holiday visit to New Zealand.