PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18498, 20 February 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. O’Connor, of Auckland, is at present visiting Timaru. Mr W. Ellison, Melbourne, is visiting Timaru.

Mr R. A. Rodger, of Wellington, arrived in Timaru yesterday. Mr M. Taylor arrived back in Timaru yesterday from the north.

Mr G. McKessar was a passenger to Timaru by the first express from the north yesterday. Mr H. H. Sterling, general manager of Railways, passed through Timaru on. his way south by the first express yesterday. The Rev. F. Buckley, of Auckland, will leave next Friday on a visit to Italy. He expects to be away for about six months and hopes to attend the Eucharistic Conference at Carthage.

Councillor T. W. Satterthwaite, who is to leave on a visit to England shortly, will be accorded a farewell at the conclusion of next Monday night's meeting of the Timaru Borough Council.

Major-General Sir Thomas Yarr, late Inspector-General of Medical Services at the War Office, has just completed a short visit to the Hermitage. Sir Thomas stated that he was delighted with Mount Cook, and that he intended returning next year.

Mr E. C. Huie (Auckland), Mr W. Easton (Dunedin), Mr J. Coombe (Palmerston North), Mr A. M. Burns (Christchurch), Mr F. A. Clark (Auckland), Mr R. Lucas (Nelson), Mr J. Staples (Christchurch), and W. C. Weston (New Plymouth) have arrived in Timaru to attend the meetings of the United Press Association, Newspaper Proprietors’ Association and New Zealand Section of the Empire Press Union, which are to be held in Timaru, and at the Hermitage.

The Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries has nominated Colonel Sir James Lithgow as president-elect in succession to the retiring president, Mr Lennox Lee (states a British Official Wireless message). Sir James Lithgow is the head of a firm of the largest shipbuilders in the world. He was president of the Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation in 1921, and later became president of the National Confederation of Employers’ Organisations. He was the delegate of the British employers to the International Labour Conference at Geneva.

Included in those who are to arrive in Timaru to-day to attend meetings of the various newspaper organisations are—Messrs W. J. Chapman, J. R. Salt, D. Cody, E. A. Blundell, W. J. Blundell, C. W. Earle, L. J. Berry (Wellington), E. T. Spanger, S. R. Evison, P. Selig (Christchurch), C. A. Codlin, F. W. Pottard (Auckland),, A. L. Muir (Gisborne), W. Dow (Dunedin), R. P. Furness (Blenheim), V. H. Freeth (Palmerston North), H. F. Bissett, P. Bond (Hawera), W. H. Crawford (Whangarei), T. Geddes (Napier), F. Goldberg (Sydney), J. A. Jewell (Wellington), J. Ilott (Wellington), and W. Appleton (Wellington).

The retirement of Mr G. H. Plummer, senior district inspector of the Auckland Education district, in addition to that of Mr C. W. Garrard, senior inspector of schools, is announced. Both Mr Garrard and Mr Plummer will retire on superannuation on March 31st. Mr Plummer has served for 42 years, the whole time in the Auckland district. Owing to the illness of Mr Garrard, Mr Plummer is at present occupying the position of senior inspector. From April Ist the position of senior inspector will be filled by Mr J. Robertson, senior inspector in the Hawke’s Bay district. Mr N. H. S. Law, inspector at Wanganui, will fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr Plummer.—Press Assn.

Mr 4 A. W. Page, of Christchurch, leaves on February 21 for England, as a representative of the National Peace Council and the New Zealand No More War Movement, in order to attend conferences and make contacts with the European peace movements. The latter have succeeded in forming an International Joint Advisory Council, linking up all the international peace movements, of which Mr Donald Grant, recently returned to Europe from New Zealand, has been appointed secretary. This joint council is undertaking a world wide campaign against military training and conscription. From England he will go as an emissary of the international body to visit its branches in over twenty different countries in Europe, including France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Russia, Lithuania, and the Balkans. On his return towards the end of the year Mr Page will be occupied in organising the No More War Movement in New Zealand.