PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21001, 1 April 1938, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs G. A. Lewin (Dunedin)., J. W. Heenan (Wellington) and C. L. Grange (Thames) have been appointed members of the Local Government Loans Board for one year.

Messrs R. H. Brown and M. W. W. Cummings have been elected members of the Public Service Superannuation Board for three years to represent contributors belonging to the Post and Telegraph Department.

Mr Peter Sinclair, 34 Bank Street, formerly a blacksmith in the employ of the Timaru Harbour Board, celebrated his ninety-second birthday yesterday. He received many congratulatory telegrams from relatives and well wishers of the family. Mr Sinclair still enjoys good health.

The Rev. F. Stent, of Carterton, has been re-elected president of the New Zealand Poultry Producers’ Federation. Mr Stent has been president since the formation of the Federation in 1935. Other officers elected were: Vice-president, Mr J. W. McGilinchy (Christchurch); executive officers, Mr T. Gill (Oamaru) and Miss M. Whitehead (Manakau); secretary and treasurer, Mr A. Severn (Upper Hutt). Mr W. T. Ritchie, chairman of the Timaru Harbour Board, Intends leaving on April 22 on a six months’ trip to England, and at yesterday’s meeting of the Board Mr Ritchie was granted leave of absence for the April meeting, as this is the only one the present Board has jurisdiction over. Mr Ritchie expressed thanks to members of the Board for the wonderful support they had accorded him during the period he had been chairman, and especially in helping him to bring harbour improvement matters to the state they were in to-day. He also expressed his thanks to the staff and to the newspapers. Mr Ritchie also mentioned that while in England, if the Board desired it, he would make various inquiries regarding plant and such like which may be of great help when the harbour improvement work was put in hand. It might be that he would not be back on the Board after the next election, although he intended leaving his nomination in the hands of the authorities before he left, but even if he were not returned, he might be able to secure information which would be of value to the Board.