Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 250, 21 October 1937, Page 6

Personal

Mr. H. E. Ziesler is a Wanganui visitor to the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Association’s annual show.

Mr. A. S. Burgess was re-elected president at last night’s annual meeting of the Automobile Association (Wanganui).

Mr H. Savage, of Wanganui, who has been employed in Palmerston North for a period, has returned to his home.

Mr. W. H. Swanger, of Taupo, a former secretary of the Wanganui Education Board, is- visiting the city. He was present for a brief period at yesterday's meeting of the board.

Mr. Ormond Wilson, M.P., is now out of hospital, but his medical adviser has ordered him not to attend to Parliamentary or constituency work for a month. During that time Mr. Wilson .will be convalescing.

Congratulations on his appointment as a vice-president of the New Zealand Technical Association were conveyed to Mr. M. H. Oram (Palmerston North) at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board.

Mr. B. Suzuki, editor-in-chief of the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, accompanied by Mr. C. F. Foley, of Auckland, were visitors to Wanganui yesterday, when they were the guests of Mr. Hugh C. Jenkins. A visit was paid to the Sarjeant Gallery, which interested the visitors.

The board's congratulations to Mr. M. F. Henry, of Oroutoha, on being awarded a Royal Humane Society medal for rescuing two persons from drowning at Paekakariki last January were expressed by the chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway, at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. F. G. A. Stuckey, a former senior inspector of schools in the Wanganui district was passed at yesterday's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. “The lt.te Mr. Stuckey was appointed to the Wanganui district in 1920 and left in 1926 on promotion to Otago,’’ said the chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway. "During his term in this district he proved himself a most energetic and capable officer and his passing is a severe loss to education in New Zealand.”

"Members will no doubt be aware of the permanent appointment of Dr. Elizabeth Gunn as Director of School Hygiene, a position in which she has been acting in a relieving capacity for some months,” said the chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway, at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. “We shall have an opportunity of conveying our congratulations to Dr. Gunn personally at the November meeting and thanking her for her valuable services as school medical officer in this district over a number of years.