PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24685, 5 March 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr R. B. Tennent, Director of Primary Production, who arrived in Invercargill on Tuesday evening and attended meetings of farmers in the .city yesterday, left for Gore yesterday afternoon. He will travel to Dunedin today. The Rev. J. Newlands, of Winton, has been appointed Moderator of the Southland Presbytery for the ensuing six months.

Mr E. A. Cameron, president of the Southland Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union, has received advice that the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. J. G. Barclay, is unable to visit Southland next week as arranged. Messrs F. B. Adams and W. S. Armitage, of Dunedin, who have been attending the sitting of the Supreme Court, returned north by the midday express yesterday. Mr F. K. Mac Kay, superintendent of railway road services, Wellington, left for the north yesterday after a short visit to Invercargill on departmental business.

Official advice has been received by Air Headquarters, Wellington, that the D.F.C. has been awarded to WingCommander H. N. G. RamsbottomIsherwood, A.F.C., R.A.F. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1940. Wing Commander Ramsbottom-Isher-wood was educated at Blenheim and left a commercial position in 1930, when he joined the Royal Air Force. Last September it was announced that he had been placed in command of a Royal Air Force wing in Russia. In November it was announced that he had been awarded the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet decoration. This was the first award to a foreigner for a military achievement. He is married with one child and his parents live in Blenheim.—P.A.

Mr A. O. Glasse, who has been elected to succeed Mr M. C. Henderson as president of the New‘Zealand Institution of Engineers, was born in Dunedin, and received his early education and training there before proceeding to England, where he joined the British Thomson Houston Company, Rugby, in 1914. He returned to New Zealand in 1922 in the interests of his firm to carry out a large electrical contract for the Auckland Electric Power Board, and on the completion of the work joined the board’s staff as assistant engineer. Subsequently he became chief engineer, a position which he holds at present.