PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20047, 20 September 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Major A. Blackburn has received notice of a special appointment, and leaves for the south on Monday. Some improvement in health has been shown by Mr. A. B. Williams, Puketiti station, Te Puia, who recently was seriously ill in Wellington. Mr. J. G. Stout, general manager of the New Zealand Petroleum Company, Limited, returned by plane this morning from Auckland, after a business trip to the northern city. Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., relieving magistrate at Gisborne, returned to Wellington to-day. Mr, Luxford will come back to Gisborne to conduct sittings of the Magistrate’s Court on October 9, 10 and 11.

Mr. G. M. Beaumont, the recentlyappointed assistant engineer of the Gisborne Borough Council, has completed the three months’ probationary period, and his appointment has been confirmed.

Congratulations on his promotion to the rank of captain in the First Hawke’s Bay Regiment were offered to Mr. J. W. Bain, secretary of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce, at the monthly meeting of the chamber held yesterday. The president, Mr. I-I. 11. De Costa, said that Mr. Bain always had been a keen worker for the territorials and his promotion was well merited. This opinion was confirmed by the warm acclamation of the members of the chamber. Professor A. Heim, of Zurich. Switzerland, who paid a flying visit to Gisborne during the past few days, left this morning for the north. Professor Heim is well known as a geologist, and while in this district found time to tour a portion of the F.ast Coast, examining superficial evidences of the geological formation. It is understood that he is not connected with the intensive explorations which are being carried on in New Zealand by three major oil-prospect-ing concerns.