PERSONAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 4

PERSONAL

A Gazette notice announces the appointment of Mr T. W. Preston as Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury. A motion of sympathy with Mr J. Stevens in the death of hiS brother, Mr Geoffrey H. Stevens, of Otautau, was carried at the monthly meeting of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Mr F. A. T. Hilton, who headed the list of unsuccessful candidates at the Timaru Borough Council election on May 27 last, and who was nominated at the last meeting of the Council to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Cr. W. H. Hall, has consented to sit as a councillor and has made the statutory declaration before the Town Clerk (Mr E. A. S. Killick). Sympathy with Mr E. J. Fairbrother, deputy-chairman of the South Canterbury Rugby Union, in the death of his father, Mr Edmund Fairbrother, was expressed at a meeting of the Management Committee of the Union last night. The president, Mr S. H. Sullivan, said that for at least two generations the name of Fairbrother had been associated, not only with the Zingari Club but South Canterbury football. A motion of condolence with the relatives was carried in silence.

After having served for seven years as manager of the Auckland branch of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., Mr W. Morrison is to be transferred on promotion toward the end of tire year to the position of chief inspector of the bank in New Zealand. This position is at present held by Mr T. P. Fotheringham, who was appointed inspector for New Zealand in 1933, and is to retire on December 31 after 44 years' service. Mr Morrison has served the bank for more than 40 years. His first managership was at Te Awamutu. He was subsequently manager' at Whakatane, Invercargill. Timaru and Dunedin. Mr Morrison will be succeeded in Auckland by Mr J. B. Stewart, at present manager in Dunedin.