PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr Ormond Hutchinson, manager of the Colonial Motor Company Ltd., Timaru, who has been appointed general manager to Ford Motors (Canterbury), Ltd., was presented on behalf of the Ford dealers of Otago and Southland, with an antique brass firescreen and log box and fire set, as well as a mechanical motor car for Master Hutchinson. Messrs C. J. Nathan, j H. Wilkie and W. H. Preston (Wellington) are staying at the Grosvenor. Mr T. S. Hickey, formerly of Opunake. has been appointed Dominion organiser of the new political party known as the Seddon Liberal Party. A cable message from Sydney states that Mr T. M. Hinkley, who was recently appointed manager of the Sydney branch of the United Press Association, arrived aboard the Wanganella. Messrs G. Stewart (Wellington), H. C. Fabling (Christchurch), G. H. Davis (Queenstown), W. Hodge (Dunedin) and J. Simpson (Lyttelton) are registered at the EmpireMembers of the Palmerston North Congregational Church tendered a farewell social to Rev. C. G. H. Bycroft and Mrs Bycroft on the eve cf their departure for Dunedin and presented them with a wallet of notes. Mr G. U. Allen, who has been copilot for Mr C. T. P. Ulm on his recent flights between New Zealand and Australia, has been given the rank of flight-lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Mr J. Aitken, who has been a member of the Wanganui Education Board for many years, announced at tha monthly meeting last ween: that he will not be seeking re-election to the Board for a further term. Mr Bernard Gotlieb, previously Consul at Wellington, New Zealand, and now American Consul at Messina, Italy, on the closing of the Messina Consulate on June 30, 1934, will, with his wife and two children, proceed to a new post as Consul at Trieste, Northern Italy.