PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24525, 28 August 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Dr T. McKibbin, Medical Officer of health for Otago and Southland, is visiting Invercargill. He is at the Grand Hotel.

Mr W. R. Harris, of Invercargill, chairman of the Otago and Southland Council of Young 1 Farmers’ Clubs, will leave 7 today for Oamaru to attend a meeting of the council at which the president of the New Zealand Federation (Mr D. S. Ross, of Auckland) will be present. He will return south on Saturday.

Mr A. S. Holms, of Waimahaka, left for Wellington on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Meat Board. Messrs G. A. Hamilton (Lumsden), H. P. Mclntyre (Maitland) and J. Cowie (Balfour), members of the electoral committee have also left for Wellington to attend the annual meeting of the board.

Mr W. Lints, producer of the patriotic revue “Britannia,” leaves this morning for Wanganui. Mr Lints has tentative proposals for producing his next revue in Auckland. Mr W. R. Jones was elected unopposed president of the Gore Trotting Club at the annual meeting last night. Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, was yesterday elected the first chairman of the Farmers’ Federation Council, the inaugural meeting of which was held in Wellington.

Mr S. Robson, titles clerk in the clerical staff of the Lands Department at Invercargill, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. He will leave Invercargill about the end of next month.

Squadron-Leader A. G. Lestei - has been appointed air liaison officer at headquarters of the Southern Military District, Christchurch. Mr B. S. Irwin was re-elected president of the Forbury Park Trotting Club at the annual meeting of the club. It is 26 years since he was first elected to the club committee, and this will be his eighteenth year as president. At a meeting of the Bluff Harbour Board yesterday a motion of condolence was passed with the Hon. T. F. and Mrs Doyle in the death of their daughter. Mr Doyle, who was a member of the board for eight years, did not seek reelection at the last election. The executive committee of the Civic Band passed a motion of sympathy with the relations of the late Mrs J. E. Cavanagh at its meeting on Tuesday. Mr H. E. Cavanagh, a son of Mrs Cavanagh, is a member of the band. Mr J. M. Chaplin, who leaves Invercargill this morning to join the Fleet Air Arm, was met yesterday by the directors of and staffs of the Southland and Otago Co-operative Timber Company, the Southland Sawmillers’ Mutual Accident Insurance Company and the Associated Boxmakers of Otago and Southland. Good wishes were extended to him by Messrs M. J. Kilkelly, J. Hensley, H. F. Drewe, H. M. Rout, A. Grindlay, and M. Miller. On behalf of the gathering Mr Kilkelly presented him with a wallet of notes.