PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20640, 1 February 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr F. Purdie (England) is on a visit to Timaru and is at the Grosvenor. Messrs S. Holmes, D. Lumsden, S. A. Stannard (Oamaru) and R. Simpson (Dunedin) are staying at the Dominion. Members of the Queensland bowlers’ party and Messrs E. Falconer and C. M. West (Timaru) are registered at the Grand. Captain D. F. Smith, stevedore at Bluff for the New Zealand Shipping Company, is to join the company’s Auckland staff shortly. Messrs J. E. Gebbie, W. H. Harwood, J. Delany (Oamaru), J. Milne, G. W. Heydon, N. Sherwood. W. K. Wilkinson (Dunedin), H. L. Garrett and L. Thomas (Christchurch) are guests at the Empire. Mr A. Morrie Taylor, general manager and engineer of the Timaru Gas, Coal and Coke Co., Ltd., has been unanimously elected president of the Gas Institute of New Zealand for another year. The conference is to take place in Timaru in February, 1938. Mr J. Hadfield, supervisor of the superintending engineer’s office of the Post and Telegraph Department in Auckland, has received notice of his appointment to the position of stores manager in Wellington. Mr J. Simpson, at present accountant in the superintending engineer’s office, Auckland, will succeed him. Advice has been received that Mr J. P. Steven has tendered nis resignation as chairman of the South Canterbury Adjustment Commission set up to administer the Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act, 1936. Mr Steven had previously occupied the same position under the Mortgagors and Tenants Relief Act, 1933, and the Rural Mortgagors Final Adjustment Act, 1934-35, his original appointment having been made in May, 1935.