PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24376, 5 March 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Governor-General, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall, and Lady Newall, attended by Wing Commander H. C. Bevan and Captain C. J. Holland-Martin, A.D.C., will return to Wellington from Auckland by the main trunk express this afternoon. —Press Association.

The Minister of Railways (the Hon. R. Semple) will arrive in Invercargill by the midday express today and this afternoon will inspect the railway workshops. This evening Mr Semple will be the guest of railwaymen and their wives at a social gathering in the United Friendly Societies’ Haff. Mr Semple will leave on his return to Wellington tomorrow. The Mayor, Lieutenant J. R. Hanan, was congratulated by the City Council last night on his promotion to actingadjutant. Tlie Rev. J. H. Thomson, Kennington, was elected Moderator of the Southland Presbytery at a meeting of the Presbytery yesterday. The Rev. John MacGregor, Centre Bush, is the retiring Moderator. Mr V. C. Lawn, acting Chief Postmaster at Invercargill, will return to Invercargill by the express this evening after attending a conference in Wellington of district controlling officers and inspectors at the General Post Office.

Quartermaster-Sergeant C. O. Clapp, who is on leave from Burnham Military Camp, is visiting his sister, Mrs A. C. Dickens, Mary street. Mr W. S. Bennett, formerly of Wellington and now superintendent in Australia for Dalgety and Company, Ltd., has just completed his fiftieth year of service as an officer of the company. Mr Bennett joined the company at Rockhampton on January 16, 1891, when the branch was opened He became manager at Townsville in 1906 and three years later was transferred to New Zealand as sub-manager at Wellington. In 1910 he was appointed manager. Early in 1929 he succeeded Mr W. D. Stewart as superintendent of the company for New Zealand, and on July 1, 1936, he was appointed to his present post of controller of the company’s activities in Australia. The Rt. Rev. G. H. Jupp, Dunedin, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, is making a tour of the North Island Maori Mission fields. Mi - C. H. Burnett intends to contest the Tauranga seat at the next general election as an Independent candidate, and not, as was recently reported, the Bay of Plenty seat, for which Lieutenant A. G. Hultquist is the member. Mr Burnett was the sitting Laboui member for Tauranga when defeated by Mr F. W. Doidge in 1938. Cr J. Pickard was appointed to preside at the meeting of the City Council last night in the absence of the Deputy-Mayor, Mr J. R. Martin. Sapper A. Stewart, one of the original members of the Southland Wrestling Club, was the guest at a function in his honour on Monday night. He was presented with an inscribed fountain pen by the president, Mr C. Pedlar.

Mr P. McLeod, a son of Mr and Mrs J. H. McLeod, of Mandeville, left Gore yesterday morning for Auckland where he will take up a position as house surgeon at the Auckland Public Hospital. Mr A. E. White, who has been district agent of the A.M.P. Society at Gore for the last seven years, has received notice of his transfer to Dunedin, where he will take over the district agency. Mr T. R. Buxton has been appointed senior house master and sports master at John McGlashan College, Dunedin, where previously, from 1928 to 1933, he had been a house master under Mr Colin Gilray. Mr Buxton then left New Zealand to gain further experience abroad, and taught at Leatherhead School, Surrey, for five years. On returning to New Zealand he became senior house master at the Timaru Boys’ High School. He has a distinguished record in athletics. He won a University Blue for hurdling and held the New Zealand title for the 440 yards hurdles. Mr Buxton will be given charge of the college cadet corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Row has relinquished the command of the Northern Field Force and has been seconded for attachment to Headquarters, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Mr W. C. Collee has been appointed by the Canterbury College Council as its representative on the board of governor's of Lincoln College in succession to Dr H. G. Denham, who has resigned.