PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24601, 25 November 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) will visit Invercargill next Monday. He has expressed a desire to meet fishermen and shooters and he will attend a special gathering of sportsmen in the evening. In the afternoon he will be the guest of honour at a function arranged by women who have participated in group travel tours.

The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) has arrived in Dunedin to preside oveithe adjourned session of the Supreme Court.

Mr W. F. Sturman has returned to Invercargill from Wellington, where he represented the Southland Patriotic Council at a conference of patriotic council representatives.

Captain E. F. Scott, officer commanding the 7th Works Company, Christchurch, who has been visiting Invercargill, returned north on Sunday.

Mr J. C. Sefton, of the telegraph engineer’s office. Invercargill, has been promoted to senior clerk in the same office.

Mr P. H. Stevenson, South Island supervisor of the New Zealand Railways refreshment branch, visited Invercargill during the week-end. He left for Dunedin by yesterday afternoon’s express.

Mr L. J. R. Anderson, of the money order and post office savings bank staff, resumed work yesterday after annual leave in the North Island.

Mr K. J. G. Cook, of the Awarua radio staff, has been promoted to the position of senior clerk in the chief postmaster’s office, Invercargill. Mr H. E. Moston, Under-Secretary for Labour, who attended the International Labour Conference in New York, returned to New Zealand by the clipper on Sunday.

Brigadier P. Atherfold, of Dunedin, divisional commander for Otago and Southland of the Salvation Army, visited Invercargill during the week-end and on Sunday conducted Young People’s anniversary services. He will return north this morning.

Mr C. B. Gibbs, of Invercargill, was installed as Grand Commander - of the Thirtieth Degree Masonic Lodge, Zealandia Consistory No. 10, at the annual installation ceremony in Dunedin on Saturday night. Others who attended the ceremony from Invercargill were Messrs G. J. Reed, A. Scott, S. C. K. Smith, Andrew Noble, A. Sefton, E. Jackson and William Robison.

Flying Officer R. H. Strang, of Invercargill, has been promoted to the rank of flight-lieutenant, according to the London correspondent of The Evening Post, Wellington, and has been appointed a flight leader in the New Zealand Fighter Squadron in place of Flight-Lieutenant S. Norris, D.F.C., who was recently promoted to the rank of squadron leader and transferred abroad.

Messrs W. H. Little (president) and D. Harris (secretary), of the Southland General Labourers’ Union, have returned to Invercargill after attending the annual conference of the New Zealand Labourers’ Federation at Wellington.

News has lately been received of Surgeon-Lieutenant Norman W. Pryde, R.N.V.R., son of Mr and Mrs T. Pryde, McMaster street, Invercargill. SurgeonLieutenant Pryde is now serving on the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Victorious. After graduating at the Otago Medical School he was a house surgeon in the Christchurch and Southland Hospitals. He went overseas six years ago to do post-graduate work in London and County hospitals in England. At the outbreak of the war he joined the Royal Navy and up to March of this year, when he joined the Victorious, filled medical posts at various naval hospitals. Surgeon-Lieutenant Pryde’s brothers, Major Neil Pryde, of Te Aroha, and Sergeant T. R. Pryde, of Invercargill, are on active service with the Army in the Middle East.