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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21507, 21 November 1939, Page 6

Personal Items

Mr James Fletcher, managing director of the Fletcher Construction Co., Ltd., has been appointed to the directorate of Todd Motors Corporation, Ltd , to All the vacancy caused by the death of Mr Edwin P. Yaldwyn.

Police Inspector M. Flanagan, who has been appointed inspector in charge of the Timaru district after having been 19 years in Auckland, was presented With a silver tea set at a farewell gathering in Auckland attended by more than 100 police officers.

The Mayor of Timaru, Mr W. G. Tweedy, accompanied by the Mayoress, will leave for Wellington to-morrow. Mr and Mrs Tweedy will act as host and hostess at the Canterbury Court of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. They will return to Timaru on Monday.

Reference to the passing of Mr C. S. Fraser was made by Mr C. W. Wood at the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Industrial Exhibition and Winter Show Association. It was decided to send to Mr H. H. Fraser a letter of sympathy in the death of his father. It was also decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr J. M. Jenkins, whose father had also passed away.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mt C. S. Fraser was carried to silence at the meeting of the Timaru Borough Council last night. In proposing the motion, the Mayor, Mr w. G. Tweedy, said that Mr Fraser had been a very old and highly esteemed resident of Timaru, who ■ had died on Friday at the advanced age of 87 years. Mr Fraser had played a prominent part in the commercial, social and sporting life of Timaru, and he had been one of the rapidly diminishing band of pioneers who had done so much for the community in the early days.