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Southland Times, Issue 24756, 29 May 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr M. Silverstone, of Dunedin, a director of the Reserve Bank, returned north by the express yesterday afternoon.

Colonel W. T. Churchward, regional commissioner of the E.P.S. for the Southern Military District, and Captain H. Kitson, associate officer, who have been visiting Invercargill, will leave for Christchurch by the express this morning. Yesterday they visited Bluff and interviewed the chief controller, Mr T. Boyd, and secretary, Mr H. A. Ferguson, of the Bluff E.P.S. Mr A. Benjamin Fuller, managing director of John Fuller and Sons, Ltd., Wellington, was a visitor to Gore yesterday. He left by the afternoon’s express fox - Dunedin. Mr W. J. A. McGregor, of Invercargill, was re-elected chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board at the annual meeting yesterday. In nominating Mr McGregor as chairman, Mr W. A. Ott said Mr McGregor had the time to devote to the work and had given valuable and ungrudging service in the position. Mr J. Cameron seconded the motion, and as there were no other nominations he was declared unanimously re-elected. Mr J. H. Reed, chairman of the Southland Technical College Board, was appointed the board’s representative on the Disabled Servicemen’s Reestablishment League at the monthly meeting of the board last night. Mr A. C. Stewart, of Invercargill, was a successful candidate in tire 1942 final examinations of the Australian Institute of Secretaries.

Mr .H. C. Gimblett, who has been reappointed the Southland County Council’s representative on the Southland Technical College Board, was congratulated on his appointment by members at the monthly meeting of the board last night.

Sympathy with Sir Robert Anderson, Messrs A. H. Aitken and W. Norman (members) and D. E. S. Mason (engineer) in their illnesses was expressed by the Bluff Harbour Board yesterday. A motion of sympathy with relations in the death of Mr A. King, of Orepuki, was passed at a meeting of the Southland Museum Trust Board last night. It was stated that Mr King had been a contributor of specimens to the museum.