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Southland Times, Issue 24546, 22 September 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Inspector H. Martin, formerly of the Christchurch police force, who has been appointed to take charge of the Southland district, arrived in Invercargill during the week-end. He will take up his new duties today. Detective-Sergeant R. Thompson left Invercargill by the express last night for Christchurch, where he will-repre-sent the Invercargill Police Force at the funeral tomorrow of Mr Thomas Gibson, formerly police inspector in charge of the Southland district. Captain Lionel H. Cordery, No. 3 General Hospital, Egypt, has been promoted to the rank of Major, according to private advice. Lieutenant G. C. Tapper has been posted from the Reserve of Officers to the Ist Battalion, Southland Regiment, according to the New Zealand Gazette.

Mr A. W. J. Apps has been appointed a member of the Lake Wakatipu Rabbit Board in place of Mr R. J. Mclntyre, who has resigned, according to a notice in The New Zealand Gazette.

The appointment of Mr Angus Macdonald as a member of the Remount Committee for the Western Southland Service District in place of Mr J. L. Hazlett, who has resigned, is contained in The New Zealand Gazette.

Mr N. J. Callan, a member of the Bluff staff of the Union Steam Ship Company, who is leaving to join the Air Force, was made a presentation in the Invercargill office of the company on Saturday. In presenting Mr Callan with a gift on behalf of the staffs, Mr P. Linton Hodge, manager of the Invercargill branch, wished him the best of luck in the future. Others who spoke were Mr J. R. Woods, Mr W. Lock and Miss D. Forrester.

Among those included in the list of recipients of awards for gallantry in action in the two Balkan campaigns is 2nd Lieutenant E. A. McPhail, who was at one time on the staffs of the Gore and Invercargill branches of the Bank of New Zealand. 2nd Lieutenant McPhail, who receives the Military Cross, came to Gore in 1934, later being transferred to Invercargill, where his father had been manager in 1923. After two years and a-half at Invercargill 2nd Lieutenant McPhail was transferred to Dunedin, and later to Central Otago and then to Christchurch, where he enlisted.

Mr N. J. M. McLeod, M.1.M.E., chief mechanical engineei- in the Public Works Department, retired on superannuation on Friday. He began his career in the Public Service in October 1901 as a member of the workshops staff of the New Zealand Railways, and in the ensuing 15 years gained valuable training. Mr McLeod joined the head office staff of the Public Works Department in May 1915 and transferred some four years later to Auckland, where till 1929 he occupied the positions of senior draughtsman and office engineer. Mr McLeod was transferred with promotion to the head office of the Department in November 1929 and since then he has, as chief mechanical engineer, been in charge of the department’s activities in the field of mechanical engineering.