PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, left Huntly to-day for Whangarei and Kerikeri. The Minister will remain in the north for a week. The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister ol Mines, addressed ..meetings of miners at Pukemiro, Glen Massey and Rotowaro yesterday. He attended the Matamata races to-day and this evening he will address a meeting In Matamata. To-morrow the Minister will proceed to Rotorua, where he will open a Maori meeting house, later leaving for Gisborne. Mr J. H. Findlay has been appointed deputy registrar of births and deaths of Maoris at Hamilton. Messrs S. P. Thompson and S. Complin, of India, are at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr H. Breach, headmaster of the Raglan school, will leave shortly to take up duties in the South Sea Islands. Mr L. J. Parlane has been appointed registrar of births, marriages and deaths at Te Kuiti, and also registrar of Maori births and deaths. Mr. Victor Lloyd, of Wellington, has been appointed to adjudicate at the Otago area drama festival to be held in Dunedin in July. Mr. W. Jones, who for the past nine years has been "Mayor of Whangarei, has consented to stand for re-election. Mr M. C. Henderson has retired from the position of city electrical engineer at Dunedin. Mr G. T. Edgar was recently appointed his successor. Dr. Malcolm Sargent, the eminent English conductor, has accepted an invitation to visit New Zealand to conduct the Festival of Music projected for 1940. After 40 years’ service with the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited, Mr. C. J. Hobden, the wellknpwn purser of the Arawa, has retired. Mr V. G. Grinlington, postmaster at Raglan, has been transferred to WaJhi. He will be replaced by Mr J. H. C. Halliday, postmaster at Waverley, Taranaki. The King has approved the appointment of General Sir Edmund Ironside to be Governor of Gibraltar, succeeding General Sir Charles Harrington. He will take up his appointment neit October. Mr G. P. Thomson, manager of the Courtenay Place (Wellington) branch of the National Bank cf New Zealand, Limited, retired yesterda/ after 43 years’ service. His successor -is Mr W. J. Kerr, lately manager of the Oamaru branch of the bank. Mr W. T. Rudman, formerly of the Supreme Court office at Auckland, has commenced his duties as clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Morrinsvllle and Matamata, in succession to Mr E. W. Abercrombie, who has been transferred to Auckland. The following officers were elected at the annual conference of the New Zealand Poultry Producers’ Federation in Wellington:—President, the Bev. W. F. Stent Wairarapa , vicepresident, Mr J. w McGilinchy : Christchurch ; executive, Mr. T. Gill Oamaru . Miss M. Whitehead Manukau ; secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. J. Severn (Upper Hutt).