PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20768, 1 July 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr A. McGregor, Oamaru, is staying at the Grand. Messrs W. Morgan (Wellington), A. M. Rosie and R. J. Goodall (Auckland) are staying at the Dominion. Messrs D. M. Lusk, B. G. Midgley (Christchurch), A. Haig and P. Halstead (Dunedin) are staying at the Grosvenor. Mr H. J. O’Loughlen, manager for the Bank of Australasia at its Te Kuiti branch, has received notice of his transfer to Temuka. Mr J. G. Niccoll, inspector of stock in the Department of Agriculture, has received notice of his transfer from Invercargill to Auckland. The Rev. A. R. Wallace, vicar of Raglan, has been appointed vicar of Hunterville in the diocese of Wellington, as from the beginning of September. Messrs Alex. Grant (Wellington), A. W. Brown and J. Wood (Christchurch) are guests at the Balmoral. Mr L. O. Oakley, of Rakaia, has been appointed delegate to the electoral committee of the Meat Producers’ Board, representing Mid-Canterbury. Mr C. L. Brice, booking and parcels clerk, railway, Timaru, has received advice of his promotion to officer in charge, goods branch, Greymouth, and will leave for his new position at an early date. Messrs A. McArthur, R. G. Lallan (Christchurch), C. T. Burt (Wellington), A. Benzoni, F. Ellis, V. J. Leader, H. Fortune and W. J. Reynolds (Dunedin) are guests at the Empire. . Mr P. C. H. Petersen, of Cambridge, will be among the delegates to attend the World Dairy Congress in Berlin shortly. He has been manager of the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, for many years, and is also chairman of the Government Dairy Factory Managers’ Registration Board. The longest sei-vice record of any teacher in New Zealand to-day is probably held by Mr Robert Cole, headmaster of tjie Petone Central School, who is due to retire on superannuation in two months’ time after having been over 50 years in the teaching profession in New Zealand. Mr Cole began as a pupil teacher at the age of 14 and spent 41 years in the Gisborne district. Captain Henry Weston Hargreaves, master of the Union Company’s tug Matone, retired yesterday. Captain Hargreaves was bom at Auckland in 1869 and served for some tlirie in scows trading out of Auckland before joining the Union Company in 1904. when he was appointed master of the Natone. He has since then retained command of the Natone with relieving periods in the Terawhiti.