Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23967, 7 June 1943, Page 4

Personal Items

Mr S. J. Harbutt has been re-elected chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board. He has been chairman since 1937,

Mr Andrew Linton has been returned unopposed as a member- for the Middle Ward of the New Zealand Dairy Board.

According to a notice in the Gazette, Major J. D. Hutchison, of Southern Military District Headquarters, has been seconded to the 2nd N.Z.E.F. for duty on a transport. Mr K. Kippenberger, of Waimate, has consented to accept nomination as a candidate for election to the Canterbury Education Board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr G. W. Armitage. a representative of the south ward. The south ward is the area extending from the Rakaia to the *VaitaKi, inclusive of the Timaru urban area, and Mr Klppenberger’s nomination was requested by representatives of the school committees throughout the Waimate County, Mr Kippenberger was a school teacher for about 40 years, and, in addition, served on school committees during a period when he was engaged in farming. Appointments to the New Zealand Temporary Staff from the Canterbury Regiment, which are announced in the Gazette, include Temporary-Lieuten-ants S. J. D. Russell and R. M. Grant. In the Canterbury Regiment, the following promotions are announced:— Temporary-Captain S. J. C. Williams to be temporary major; Temporary-Lieu-tenant J. D. Carl to be temporary captain; Temporary-Second Lieutenants J M. Cronin, R. H. Kerr, G. Grieve, J. F, Daly, T. W. Hungerford, H. S. Smith, and P. H. Cooper to be temporary lieutenants.

Pilot Officers T. E. M. Harper, C. L. Ridgon. A. C. Perry, and K. A. Muff, of the Christchurch Wing of the Air Training Corps, have been promoted to the rank of flying officer, according to a notice in the Gazette. Mr Derek Studholme (Coldstream' has gained the rank of lieutenantcolonel in the British Army, according to advice received recently. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Studholme, who was visiting Britain, enlisted as a private in the anti-aircraft battalion of the London Scottish Regiment three days before the outbreak of war in 1939. He was promoted to sergeant-instruc-tor after undergoing various courses, and was later sent to an officers’ training camp, where he gained his commission. Later he was transferred to the Royal Artillery, and did work connected with radio location in London, where he remained during the bombing in the winter of 1940-41. In May, 1941. he was sent to Egypt, and later to Malta, where he was promoted to captain and then to major. He remained there until January of this year.