PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20774, 6 April 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Dr. S. K. Phillips has been elected president of the Auckland Society of Musicians in succession to the late Mr E. Varley Hudson.

Messrs H. O. Long, F. Walker (Auckland), L. C. Robinson (Wellington), and S. Chapman (Ongarue) are at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr C. P. Smith has been appointed officer-in-charge of the Labour Department at Auckland in succession to Mr W. Slaughter.

The Rev. A. AI. Elliffe, of Auckland, has been appointed superintendent of the Presbyterian Social Service Association.

Air G. Birnie, postmaster at HelensviHe, has been appointed postmaster at Morrinsville in succession to Air R. E. Williams, who left recently on promotion to Thames. Mr Birnie was supervisor at the Morrinsville office about ten years ago.

Dr. M. G. Franklin, lecturer in chemistry and animal nutrition at Canterbury Agricultural College, has been appointed senior research officer in the animal health and nutrition division of the Commonwealth of Australia Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

The national president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, Mr A. McLagan, was re-elected at the annual conference of the federation at Wellington yesterday. He was unopposed. Mr R. Eddy was re-elected national vice-president, and Mr F. Cornwell national secretary-treasurer. There were two seats on the national executive, and Mr J. Roberts (New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Federation) and Mr F. P. Walsh (New Zealand Seamen's Union) were re-elected.