PERSONALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 4

PERSONALS

Mr..A. J. Tyson, manager ol' the New Plymouth branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed manager at Hamilton. Fie will be succeeded by Mr. G. B. Dixon, manager at Paeroa. The term of (Mr. Richard W. Gibbs, representing ordinary shareholders on the boai'd of the Bank of New Zealand, expires on March 21. and he is seeking re-election. Mr. Matthew O. Barnett is also a candidate for the position. Mf- R. G. R.- Buckley, elder son of Mr. G. Buckley, of Auckland, has been promoted to the rank of squadronleader in the Royal Air Force, which he entered four years ago after obtaining degrees in science and engineering at Canterbury University College. Sir Harry Lindsay, K.C.1.E., C.8.E.. honorary treasurer of the Royal Empire Society, has left England on his way to Australia and New Zealand. Fie is travelling across the United States, visiting the New York World Fair and the San Francisco Exposition, and will cross the Pacific to Auckland from Vancouver, via Fiji. .He is to spend the last three weeks of November in New Zealand and all of December in Australia, and will return to England by air. Sir Harry is director of the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and ( his primary object in making the tour is to interest the Dominions in the work of the institute,