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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 4

Personal

Mr. D. Tucker, traffic manager of the Wellington City Corporation tramways, will retire.at the end of March. He has been 40 years in the service.

Mr. R. A. Candy, Ngarua, and Mr. A. Morton, Egmont Village, have been appointed members of the Board of Governors of Massey Agricultural College.

Lieut.-Colonel W. S. McCrorie, V.D., is attached to the Home Guard and the area commander (Major R. W. Hardie, D. 5.0.) has appointed him to acting commander of the 2nd Home Guard Battalian, which inclu les Wanganui suburbs and western districts of Waitotara.

Major F. W. Garner, Palmerston North, one of the few surviving veterans of the Maori War, celebrated his ninety-third birthday last Saturday, when he received the congratulations of a wide circle of friends. Major Garner continues to enjoy good health apart from an attack of neuritis with which he was afflicted some time ago.

The death has occurred in Masterton of Mr. Thomas Forsyth, accountant and auditor of Wellington, a member of the city council, and for many years chairman of the Wellington Education Board. Mr. Forsyth leaves one son, Dr. John Forsyth, Masterton, and three daughters, Misses Jean, Jessie and Minnie Forsyth. Mr. Robert Forsyth, representative in London for the New Zealand Meat Board, is a brother.

Mr. E. T. Cox, a former minister in Trinity Methodist Church, Wanganui, is a nominee for selection as Labour candidate in the forthcoming mayoral election in Dunedin. Dr. D. G. McMillan, former Minister of Marine, and Mr. Robert Walls are the other nominees who will go into the final ballot to be held by the Otago Labour Representation Committee to decide the candidate. Mr. Cox was Mayor of Dunedin for five years, being beaten by Mr. A. H. Allen at the 1938 elections.

Dr. C. B. Gilberd, Hamilton, an old boy of the Wanganui Technical College, has been appointed assistant medical superintendent at the Auckland Hospital. Dr. Gilberd is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gilberd, Wanganui. Dr. Gilberd was educated at Gonville School and Wanganui Technical College before going to Otago University, where he took his M.B. and Ch.B. degrees. He was on the staff of the Auckland Public Hospital for two years before starting his own practice in Otorohanga, after which he practised in Papatoetoe. He was then appointed medical health officer in Whangarei and last year was transferred to Hamilton. Thirty-nine years of age, Dr. Gilberd has had a broad experience on both the practical and administrative sides of medicine since his graduation in 1925. He is married with four children.

Sir Roderick Jones has resigned the chairmanship and managing-director-ship of Reuter's, states a London cable message. Sir Roderics Jones, after acting as a Reuter correspondent in Soum Africa, was appointed Reuter's South African editor in London in 1902. After a period back in Africa in charge of Reuter's interests he returned to London to succeed Baron de Reuter in control of the Reuter organisation throughout the world, which he did no the Baron’s death in 1915. He was in charge of cable and wireless war' propaganda until the Ministry of Information was established, when he was appointed Director of Propaganda. He is a Chevalier of the Legion on Honour, Knight Commander of the Order of the Saviour (Greece), and First Class of the Order of the Brilliant Jade (China). He received his title in 1918.