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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 62, 16 March 1943, Page 4

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Mr. L. C. Early, of Greendale, has been elected a life member of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Mr. A. W. Scott, of the Lands and Survey Department, has been appointed supervising field inspector for the North Island, with headquarters at Hamilton.

Mr. Martin S. Smith (Wanganui) was elected president of the New Zealand Institute of Electricians when the annual conference was held in Palmerston North recently. Mr. L. G. Mahoney (Mangaweka) was elected vice-president, and Mr. S. Cowley (Wanganui) secretary.

Mr. D. H. Sturrock has retired from the position of secretary of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers after holding the post for 25 years. Mr. A. R. Douglas, a senior engineer on the staff of the Westfield Freezing Company, succeeds him. Mr. W. J. Gardner, former secretary of the Wanganui Harbour Board, now of Wellington, has been appointed with Messrs. F. W. Reed and M. P. Congdon to represent the Wellington Harbour Board in the dispute between the New Zealand Harbour Boards’ Employees' Industrial Union of Workers (Wellington branch) and the Wellington Harbour Board over conditions of employment arising from fire-salvage work at King’s Wharf. Representatives of the workers will be Messrs. G. Martin, D. Emmerson, and W. R. Russell. Mr. J. A. Gilmour. S.M., will be chairman. The appointments were made by the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour. The death has occurred of Mr. William Ronaldson King, Ngaio, aged 52 a former private secretary to several Ministers of the Crown, who retired recently from the Public Service because of ill-health. He served with the N.Z.E.F. in the Great War, and before his appointment to the secretarial corps was in the Department of Agriculture. He was secretary to several Ministers of Agriculture, including Sir William Nosworthy, the late Mr. C. E. Macmillan, the late Mr. David Jones, Mr. J. B. Donald, and Mr. W. Lee Martin. Before his retirement several months ago he was engaged in the E.P.S. branch of the National Service Department. Mr. E. K. Lomas, Napier, inspector of schools in Hawke's Bay, and a former principal of the Wellington Teachers' Training College, has died, aged 61. He took his M.A. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Otago, played 11 years in its first fifteen, represented Otago at Rugby and captained the first New Zealand Universities side to visit Australia. He was abroad for some time and made a particular study of training college work in America. For two years he was principal of a boys’ college in Korea. He joined the Wellington Training College staff in 1911, became vice-principal and then principal, retiring in 1936 to become inspector of schools in Hawke’s Bay. He was on the Victoria College Council from 1919 to 1923, and was a follow of the Royal Geographical Society and for a time secretary of the Wellington Philosophical Society, now the Royal Society. He was president of the Kelburn Bowling Club in 1931. Mr. Lomas was a bachelor. Mrs. W. Buckley. Palmerston North, is a sister, and Messrs. J. S. Lomas, Wellington, F. K. Lomas, Auckland, and G. F. Lomas, Wanganui, ai*e brothers.