PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20781, 16 July 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs B. G. Drewett (Christchurch) and R. Cain (Waimate) are guests at the Balmoral.

Messrs L. J. Moor, T. W. Tidswell and E. J. Markley (Christchurch) are staying at the Dominion.

Messrs N. Davis, C. Falconer, J. Armstrong (Christchurch), S. T. Spain, C. J. Spain (Alexandra) and W. Pierson (Gore) are saying at the Empire.

Mr C. E. Crltchley, Australian Trade Commissioner in the Netherlands, East Indies, has been appointed Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand.

Mr S. Blomfield, of Nelson, who has been clerk to the Waimea County Council for the last 44 years, has resigned, and will retire from his duties on September 30.

Mr Justice O’Regan, president of the Arbitration Court, and Messrs W. Cecil Prime and A. L. Monteith, members of the Court, and Mr J. A. Gilmour, Registrar, left Timaru yesterday for Christchurch.

Mr R. E. Sowter, accountant at the Napier branch of the Union Bank of Australia, has received notice of his promotion to the position of subinspector and is to leave Napier next month to take over his new duties.

Included in the guests at the Grosvenor are Messrs W. J. Sim, W. Jamieson, A. Leslie, R. J. Richardson, W. Campbell, E. J, Denys, w. F. Robertson (Christchurch), A. Macdonald (Wellington), J. M. Downey (Auckland). Mr G. H. Maddex, an actuary attached to the staff of the United Kingdom Government’s Actuary Department, is expected to arrive in Auckland by the Mataroa on August 12. He will consult with fhe Government actuary on proposed health insurance and superannuation schemes.

News has been received by the American Consulate in Wellington that the new Consul-General for the United States, Mr Lowell C. Pinkerton, will arrive in September or October. Mr Pinkerton has been stationed in the Department of state. Washington, for about four years. He has twice been assigned to London, and for four years held the post of Foreign Service Inspector, whleh entails visiting the United States' Consulates in different parts of the world.