PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs R. Savage (Wellington), A. W. Welch and J. Simpson (Dunedin) are staying at the Grand. Mr P. A. Elworthy has returned from an eight months' visit to England. Mr C. C. Dacre, the New Zealand cricketer who has been playing for Gloucester for a number of years, returned to the Dominion this week. Messrs W. J. T. Smith, W. T. Batagwanath (Dunedin), I. J. O’Regan (Reefton) and C. Watson (Christchurch) are guests at the Balmoral. Guests at the Dominion include: Messrs E. Taylor, J. R. Johnson, A. W. Barnett (Dunedin) and F. J. Kent (Christchurch). The Rev. A. Russell Allerton, vicar of St. Thomas’, Freman’s Bay, who is on a visit to England, will leave Liverpool on his return to New Zealand to-morrow. He is due back in Auckland at the end of October. Messrs F. H. Ansley (Christchurch), W. R. Brugh, J. A. Sim, J. Smith, Lees Bulot, R. E, MacAvoy, M. Joel, D. Greenslade (Dunedin) and Victor S. Lloyd (Wellington) are staying at the Grosvenor. Messrs N. McCausland, H. W. Blake, D. O’Toole (Christchurch), H. Hart, H. Warwick (Dunedin), R. Taylor (Auckland) and Major A. W. Williams (Christchurch) are registered at the Empire. Mr A. T. McSherry, who has been for the last five years supervisor of the telegraph branch of the Palmerston North Chief Post Office, has been promoted to a similar position in Napier. Word has been received that Mr Geoffrey Townley Cuthbert, engineer to the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board, has been appointed deputy-inspector to the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Mr Cuthbert has been with the Poverty Bay Board for three years. Formerly he was on the Public Works Department, Wellington. He was born in Gisborne.