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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23318, 29 September 1945, Page 4

PERSONAL

Reference to the death of Mr F. R. Flatman, chairman of directors for 14 yeare of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, was made at the annual meeting of the Association yesterday. Mr A. Austin (present chairman) paid a tribute to Mr Flatman’s work, and the meeting stood in silence as a mark of respect to Mr Flatman. Welcoming Mr M. E. Hayman to the Timaru Harbour Board yesterday, the chairman (Mr R. S. Goodman) said that it was the first time that a member of the Board had been appointed by the Minister of Marine. He hoped that the Board would remain free from all political influence as it had been in the past. Mr W. H. Hall was appointed yesterday as the representative of the Timaru Harbour Board at the conference of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association at Dunedin next month. Mr C. Evans, who has been in the employ of the Timaru Harbour Board for the last 15 years, and Mr A. Chapman who has completed 17 years’ service with the Board, are retiring, and at a meeting of the Board yesterday the chairman (Mr R. S. Goodman) complimented them on their loyal service and wished them happiness in retirement. Mr D. McDiarmid, of Dunedin, has been appointed second engineer in the Timaru Harbour Board’s Dredge 350. Advice has been received that Temporary-Acting-Lieutenant Ross McKenzie Cramond, R.N.Z.N.V.R., who was recently demobilised and is residing in Wanganui, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. General George Carpenter who will arrive in Wellington accompanied by his wife in January, will retire from the international leadership of the Salvation Army in June. By then he will be 74. Owing to the abnormal world conditions he was granted an additional year of office. Commissioner J. Evan Smith said yesterday that the High Council would meet in April. All commissioners and territorial commissioners would be called to London then, he said, to appoint a successor to General Carpenter, who was elected to the leadership in 1939. At the request of Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., the Minister of Defence has conveyed to Captain Upham the congratulations of the New Zealand Division and also his own personal congratulations on the award of a Bar to the Victoria Cross.

Mr C. A. Jeffrey, permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department, is retiring after more than 40 years’ service. In addition to being permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department. to- which he was appointed in March, 1943, he is clerk of the Executive Council, secretary to the Cabinet and chief private secretary. Mr Jeffrey’s birthplace was Clyde, Central Otago, his association with the Public Service began in 1903, when he joined the Post and Telegraph Department as a clerk. He served in the last war. His first appointment as a member of the Ministerial secretarial corps was to the late Sir Arthur Myers. After seven years’ service in the Royal Air Force, Flying Officer S. Overton, of Auckland, arrived at Whenuapai by air from Australia yesterday on furlough. He joined the R.A.F.. when on a visit to England in 1938, and has served in England, Greece, North Africa, France, Belgium and Germany. /