PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24599, 22 November 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, met the visiting British Minister, Mr A. Duff Cooper, and Lady Diana Duff Cooper at Auckland yesterday and attended functions arranged in their honour. The Prime Minister and Mrs Fraser will leave for Wellington today.—P.A. Mr A. S. Holms, of Waimahaka, is visiting Wellington for a meeting of the Meat Producers’ Board.

Squadron Leader W. H. Shepherd, divisional commander in the South Island, of the Air Training Corps of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, who has been visiting Invercargill, returned to Dunedin by yesterday afternoon’s express.

Staff-Sergeant G. R. W. Barnes, of Invercargill, 20th Company, National Military Reserve, has been promoted to the rank of 2nd lieutenant.

Mr Lloyd Woods, of the Internal Affairs Department, Invercargill, has been appointed the inspector of totalizators in Southland.

Dr J. Weiser, resident house surgeon in charge of the Lome Hospital, will leave this morning for Dunedin to sit the final medical examinations.

Constable C. L. Spencer, who has been stationed at Chatham Islands for the last four years, has been promoted to the rank of acting sergeant and been transferred to Dunedin Central Police Station to replace Sergeant H. Hogg, who has been transferred to Invercargill.

Mr E. C. Wren, who has been on the mechanical staff of The Southland Daily News for the past 25 years as a rotary machinist, was met by the staff at a function yesterday. Mr Wren is shortly to take up a position with The Southland Times. Mr W. R. Mayhew, engineer in charge of the mechanical department, in presenting him with a fireside chair, praised Mr Wren’s work and wished him success. Speakers representing other departments also spoke and Mr Wren replied. Mr James Miller, of the National Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, and formerly of Invercargill, has received notice of his transfer to the head office at Wellington. He is a son of Mr M. Miller, of Invercargill.

A Gazette notice states that Lieuten-ant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) L. Potter, N.Z.S.C., has relinquished the appointment of officer commanding the Central Field Force and the temporary rank of colonel on being seconded to the 2nd N.Z.E.F.

After a serious illness and at his own request, Captain G. L. Buckley, bandmaster of the Papakura Camp Band, has been given 14 days’ leave before his retirement. Captain Buckley has been in charge of the band almost from the inception of the camp. Well known throughout New Zealand, Captain Buckley has been associated with bands all his life.

Reference to the excellent work done for the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association by the late Mr F. Clark was made at a recent meeting of the Invercargill Rural District Committee of the Southland Association by the chairman (Mr W. J. McKenzie). Mr McKenzie said Mr Clark had done most valuable work as group supervisor for schools in the Makarewa area. Those present stood in silence as a mark of esteem.