PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL

The appointment of Messrs. James Begg and Thomas Andrew Duncan as producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board is gazetted, reports the Press Association. Mr. J. W. Lophert, a master at the Napier Boys’ High School, has been selected as manager of the team of schoolboy athletes for the Melbourne centenary, reports the Press Association. Mr. John Stringfellow, the well-known Corriedale breeder, of Moroa, Greytown, has accepted the position of judge of the Corriedale sheep at the Melbourne Centenary Show. Mr. Stringfellow will sail for Australia on October 11. The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, went south last night, reports the Press Association. He will attend , the 21st anniversary dinner of the Canterbury branch of the Commercial Travellers’ Association at Christchurch this evening.

A gazette notice announces the appointment of Messrs. Frederick Edgar Nottage and Alexander Morris Robertson as representatives of the producers on the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, says the Press Association. Mr. Malcolm Miller, formerly of Christchurch and Lyttelton, has been appointed from a number of candidates to fill a vacancy for a bass singer in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Recently Mr. Miller was second in a final test for a three years’ scholarship in the Royal Academy of Music, London. Mr. F. E. Hutchinson, who held a lectureship in forest utilisation at Canterbury College up till the recent closing of the forestry school, has been appointed to a position in Melbourne on the forest products laboratory staff of the Australian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, states a Press Association message.

“Mr. T. C. List, as a man and friend, was an outstanding citizen; he did a great deal of work for his country and his death is a great loss,” said the chairman, Mr. E. Long, at a meeting of the Waimate West County Council yesterday. It was recalled that Mr. List while resident at Manaia had been one of the principal movers in the formation of the county. A resolution of sympathy with Mr. List's relatives was carried, members standing in silence. A motion of sympathy withithe family was-passed by the directors of the Lepperton Dairy Company at their monthly meeting yesterday.