PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Dr C. E. Beeby, Director of Education, is expected to reach Invercargill by this afternoon’s express. Dr Beeby hopes to spend a week in Southland dealing with educational matters. Mr G. McNamara, Controller of Censorship, is visiting Invercargill. He is staying with his sister, Mrs J. P. Butler, Yarrow street.

At the request of the Justice Department Mr F. K. Hunt, who retired in 1936, has been reappointed Stipendiary Magistrate for three months as from May 1. This is due to the retirement next week of Mr W. R. McKean, senior Stipendiary Magistrate, and the absence of Mr C. R. Orr Walker as chairman of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board. —(Press Associaiton.)

The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) will be accompanied on his visit to Britain by Mr C. A. Berendsen, Permanent Head of the Prime Minister’s Department, and Mr C. A. Jeffery, chief private secretary.—(P.A.) Lieutenant-Colonel V. G. Jervis, N.Z.S.C., Deputy Adjutant-General, will act as Adjutant-General and Second Military Member of the Army Board, in addition to his present duties, during the absence from the Dominion of Colonel A. E, Conway, 0.8. E., N.Z.S.C., according to an announcement in the New Zealand Gazette. The Rev. Ernest N. Goring, minister of the Georgetown Baptist Church for the past two years and a-half, who has accepted the position of minister at Nelson, preached his farewell sermons yesterday to large congregations. Mr Goring will leave for the north on Wednesday. Mr E. Murray, of the Customs Department at Bluff, has resumed duty after his annual leave. Mr T. N. Forde, who was relieving at Bluff, has returned to Invercargill. The Rev. H. Raymond Turner, Baptist minister, Dunedin South, has accepted a call to the Esk Street Church, Invercargill, and will leave in June.

Next month Mr John Jacobs, secretary of the Otago Hospital Board, celebrates his fiftieth year in the service of public bodies in Dunedin. On May 14, 1891, he was appointed to a junior position with the Dunedin City Council. He has been secretary of the Hospital Board for 31 years, ever since its inception in May 1910.

Mr Ellis Sutton was elected president of the Caledonian Society of Invercargill at the annual meeting on Saturday night.

Brigadier Mrs Hugson, director of the Salvation Army Samaritan Bureau at Wellington for nearly three years, has now officially retired from active service. The brigadier has been an officer for over 39 years, and has given valuable service as a social officer. For many years she had charge of children’s homes at Hamilton and Dunedin. Major Miriam Glover is succeeding her as director of the Samaritan work in Wellington.