PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 October 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The Prime Minister. A cable message from Washington states that Mr Coates has arrived after a transcontinental tour from San Francisco. He will call upon President Coofidge, and then proceeds to New York, whence he sails on Saturday for England. Dr F. F. A. Ulrich lias returned from Dunedin. Mr McLeod, chief inspector of schools for Canterbury, arrived in Timaru yesterday. A London cablegram states that Mr Robert Hall, the Queensland Rhodes Scholar, has been appointed Lecturer in Economics at Trinity College, Oxford. Mr E. F. Hollands, the newly appointed electrical engineer for Timaru, in his application to the Borough Council stated that he is a registered engineer, a member of the Institute or Electrical Engineers (South Africa), an associate member of the Institute ot Electrical Engineers (.London), and an associate member of the New Zealand Society of Civil Eng.neers. Mr Hollands who is a married man 40 years of age was trained as an electrical engineer in Loudon, after which he went to South Africa to gain fuither experience. After seven .years service with’the South African Government, he was engaged for a number of years.oil municipal" and mining contracts. In 1916 ha became an employee of the New Zealand Government, being attached to the Lake Co'eralge scheme under the late Mr L. Birks. From the Government service ho was appointed electrical engineer to the Borough ot Stratford where, alter three years’ service he joined the stall of Messrs Turnhull and .Jones as engineer in charge of several large contracts the firm'had on hand. After three months’ service ho was appointed Engineer and malinger :in the .Wellington (Branch of the Company. He will relinquish this employment to come to Timaru.