PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20146, 28 June 1935, Page 8

PERSONAL

Guests at the Balmoral include Messrs T. Bennett (Auckland), C. H. Melhuish and C. Porterfield (Christchurch).

The reappointment of Mr Samuel Ritchie as Conciliation Commissioner for a period of six months from July 9 is gazetted.

Messrs B. Shaw (Albury), N. Suckling, D. v. Donaldson, and J. Lawrence (Christchurch) are registered at the Grosvenor.

Mesrs W. Drake, G. Finney (Christchurch), J. B. Power (Wellington), G. C. Carden (Auckland) are staying at the Empire. Messrs George Sterndale Bates and Thomas Edward Harold Evans have been appointed producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Poultry Board.

The appointment of the following members of the Opticians Board is gazetted—Messrs Thomas Gray Young, Henry Scarle Gilberd, and Garnet Wil3on Harty. The Governor-General left Auckland by the Limited express last night for Marton, for two days’ duck shooting. He will return to Auckland on Sunday morning.

The Union Steam Ship Company has received advice of the death in England of Mr G. A. Simmonds, a member of the Company’s London Board of Directors, formerly well-known in New Zealand, aged 73. Mr N. T. Lamboume, Director of Education, with Mrs Lamboume, left for Sydney en route to England by the Maunganui on Wednesday. They will return through the United States and Canada in February next. The Gazette announced that as only four members were elected to the Gisborne Harbour Board to represent the electors of Cook County instead of five, the Governor-General has appointed Mr George Morris Reynolds to fill the vacancy.

Mr R. N. Porter. Bluff, at Wednesday’s meeting of the Bluff Harbour Board, was appointed secretary, tn succession of Mr H. C. Gimblett, who has been appointed clerk of the Southland County Council. Mr Gimblett will continue to act in an advisory capacity for the next three months. Mr Porter was employed for 20 years by Messrs J. G. Ward and Co., and for eight years has been accountant to the Harbour Board. He was aDDointed out of 59 candidates.