PERSONAL
Mr. G. A. Simpson, of Wanganui, is a passenger by the Tainui, which left Wellington for Southampton yesterday morning. At the annual conference of the Canterbury R.S.A., Mr. It. B. Bell, of Timaru, was elected district president and Colonel Hugh Stewart, of Christchurch, vice-president. Messrs Thompson and Deihl have relinquished the business at the corner of Ridgway Street and Trafalgar Place. Mr A. L. Thompson has left Wanganui, while Mr Alan Deihl has joined the mechanical staff of Messrs H. S. Harman, Ltd.
Mr A. G. Bignell is at present an inmate of a private hospital. Ou Saturday he submitted to an operation, and is now making satisfactory progress.
Mr L. V. Kerby, secretary of the Wanganui Hospital Board, has been appointed managing secretary of the board, with full control of the whole of the staffs of the board’s institutions, with the exception of the medical and nursing staffs. Sympathetic reference was made at the annual meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association on Tuesday evening to the illness of the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands, who, it was stated, had done a very great deal for returned soldiers. A motion was passed expressing condolence with Mr Guthrie in his illness, and trust ing that he would be speedily restored to health.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18783, 17 May 1923, Page 4
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