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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21994, 20 June 1941, Page 4

Personal Items

The appointment of Mr H. Glendinning Cowell to act as Consul for Turkey at Auckland is gazetted Mr F. L. Smith, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Suva, has been appointed by the Patriotic Fund Board its honorary commissioner with the New Zealand Forces in Fiji. Adjutant R. McDonald, of the staff of Roto Roa Island, has received notice of his transfer as officer in charge of the Salvation Army in the Greymouth district. The Rev. C. G. Hedley Bycroft, of United Congregational Church, Dunedin, has received a unanimous call to Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington. The unopposed election of Mr John Dunlop of Seaward Downs, Southland, as member for the Southern Ward of the New Zealand Dairy Board is gazetted. ThelHon. P. C. Webb has received cabled advice that Mr C. A. Jeffrey, private secretary to the Prime Minister, who was Injured in a motor smash in Egypt, is making a splendid recovery and in a few weeks will be as well as ever. Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Falconer, D. 5.0., M.C., of Dunedin, is reported to have been promoted to the rank of Brigadier. The information is contained in a letter written to his family, in which he states he has taken over the command of the battalion formerly commanded by Brigadier L. M. Inglis, of Timaru. No information on the promotion is held by the Dunedin army authorities. According to a notice appearing in the Gazette, Wing Commander Edward George Olson has relinquished his appointment as Air Force Member for Personnel and as a member of the Air Board, and Wing Commander Sidney Wallingford, who receives the temporary appointment of Group Captain, is appointed a member of the Air Board in Wing Commander Olson’s place. Mr James Samuel Roberts, assistant borough engineer at Napier, has been appointed assistant engineer to the Invercargill City Council. There were seven applications for the position. Mr Roberts, who is 28 and married, was trained in the Wellington city engineer’s department, and after six years he became an engineering assistant in the department. On October 1, 1939, he’ was appointed to his present position. He is a registered civil engineer, an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and an associate member of the Institution of Structural Engineers.