PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Ven. Archdeacon J. A. Lush left yesterday afternoon for Dunedin to attend the Diocesan Synod.

Inspector H. Martin, officer in charge of the Invercargill police district, returned to Invercargill yesterday after a visit to Christchurch. The Rev. Father C. Cahill left Invercargill yesterday afternoon for Dunedin and will later visit Wellington.

Captain A. J. Neil, 27th MachineGun Battalion, has been appointed staff captain of the 4th New Zealand Infantry Brigade, according to an announcement in the New Zealand Gazette.

Sergeant J. Crowley, of Timaru, has been transferred to Gore to succeed Sergeant S. King, who has been promoted to senior-sergeant at Timaru.

Detective-Sergeant R. Thompson, who has been stationed at Invercargill for the last six years, has been promoted to the rank of senior detective. He will continue to be stationed at Invercargill in the meantime.

Mr M. Simmonds, deputy registrar of the Supreme Court, Invercargill, left on Sunday night for Wellington, to attend a conference of the Public Service Association.

Mr M. M. Macdonald, president of the Automobile Association (Southland), was appointed the association’s representative on the Southland Progress League at a general committee meeting of the association, last night.

The Rev. A. J. Fraser and Mrs Fraser, Gladstone, have left to attend the Anglican Synod in Dunedin. The Rev. Father J. Murphy and the Rev. Father B. Dennehy left Invercargill yesterday foi’ Dunedin and will return on Thursday. Father Dennehy will carry on mission activities in the Riverton parish cn his return. Mr D. P. Howlett is announced as the National candidate for Wellington South. Mr Howlett stood against the sitting Labour member, Mr R. McKeen, in 1938.

Mr K. G. A. Ramsay, of the Invercargill office of the Victoria Assurance Company, has been promoted to the position of manager of the company for Otago and Southland. His headquarters will be at Dunedin. He will leave Invercargill about the middle of November.

Mr J. Caulfield, who leaves tomorrow for Waiouru military camp where he will train for the Tank Corps, was bidden farewell by a large gathering of friends at his home last night. Messrs J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., and H. Hodgson, members of the No. 6 Armed Forces Appeal Board, and Messrs A. N. Haggitt, counsel for the Crown, and A, B. Thomson, secretary, arrived in Invercargill by the express yesterday afternoon from Dunedin. The board will sit in Invercargill for 10 days. Messrs F. J. Townsend and S. B. Taylor, of Gore, will leave for Wellington this morning to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance, at which they will represent the Gore and District Carriers’ Association. While in Wellington Mr Townsend will also attend a meeting of officers commanding the Lines of Communication Motor Transport Companies of the Home Guard. Mr James W. Sutherland, who will enter camp shortly for overseas service, was the guest of honour recently at a social evening arranged by members of the staff of Thomson and Beattie Ltd. Mr Sutherland has been associated with the firm for the last four years as manchester buyer. Mr Sutherland was presented with gifts and a cheque. The principal speakers were Messrs R. Thomson and W. Fraser, who made the presentations on behalf of the firm and staff respectively. The speakers praised the guest’s good qualities and expressed the wish that he would have a speedy and safe return.

A motion of sympathy with Mr E. McKenzie, an All Black selector, on the death of his wife was passed at a meeting of the management committee of the Southland Rugby Football Union last night. A function in honour of members of the congregation who had joined the fighting forces was held at the North Invercargill Presbyterian Church hall on Sunday after the evening service. The guests of honour were Leading Aircraftman lan W. Speirs and Privates R. J. E. Botting and Graham Herbison. The minister, the Rev. Hugh Graham, who presided, wished the guests a speedy and safe return and made a presentation to each of them. A motion of sympathy with the relations of the late Mr Charles Purdue, a former Southland and All Black player, whose death occurred recently, was passed at a meeting of the management committee of the Southland Rugby Football Union last evening.