PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19933, 18 October 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr John Farrell, of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., was a visitor to Timaru yesterday. Mr C. Macadam. Murchison, is registered at the Empire. Mr G. Hart. Christchurch, and Mr E. R. Grainger. Christchurch, are guests at the Empire. Mr W. Stewart. Petone. and Mr L. R. Harker, Wellington, are staying at the Dominion.

Mr M. McArthur, of Auckland, is visiting Timaru, and is staying at the Grosvenor.

Guests at the Grosvenor include Messrs H. Harris, Christchurch, W. Jamieson, Dunedin. T. F. Gilkinson, and F. M. Corkill, Invercargill.

A Press Association message from London says that Major-General Freyberg has been placed on half pay pending a vacancy. Mr J. Walsh, of the Invercargill staff of the Customs Department, has received advice of his appointment to the position of assistant examining officer at Wellington. It was decided at Tuesday’s session of the Christchurch Diocesan Synod to send a message of congratulation to Archbishop Julius, who celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday on Monday Mr G. E. Simcocks, a noted judge dogs, of Sydney, arrived by the Mo;, wai on Monday to act as judge in the Hawke’s Bay show at Hastings this week. He has come at the invitation of the New Zealand Kennel Club Mr E. R. Fitzsimmons, who has been swimming instructor at the Invercargill Municipal Baths for the last six years, has received advice of his appointment as coach to a swimming organisation in Melbourne. He will leave tor Australia from Bluff by the Maheno on November 26. Mr F. W. Platts, of Hamilton, who has retired from the position of stipendiary magistrate for the Thames circuit and who is now on final leave, has been appointed a permanent coroner. He will also preside over future sittings of the Children’s Court in Hamilton.

Mr L. D. Mulligan, stock auctioneer with Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., at Blenheim, leaves at the end of next week on transfer to Christchurch. His duties at Blenheim will be taken over by Mr T. S. Maskew, of Little River. Mr A. McCailum, formerly of the Blenheim branch, has been transferred on promotion from Oxford to Timaru. A cable message from Sydney announces that the Governor-General of New Zealand (Lord Bledisloe) returned from Brisbane to Sydney yesterday. He went by train to Dalkeith Station. Merriwa. and then boarded the New England Airways monoplane which made a special landing at Newcastle, where he was officially welcomed.

The appointment of Mr A. Bain, Chief Inspector of Schools in the Taranaki district, to a similar position at Auckland in succession to the late Mr W. G Blackie. has been notified by the Education Department to the Auckland Education Board. Since Mr Blackie’s sudden death on the golf links last May, Mr M. Priestley has been acting temporarily as chief inspector. Mr Priestley, who has been an inspector at Auckland for the last 24 years, has announced his intention of retiring from the service at the end of February.