BIOGRAPHIES
MEMBERS OF NEW BOARD OF BROADCASTING CONTROL The following brief biographies of the newly-appointed members of the Broadcasting Board of Control, are of interest. Mr. H. D. Vickery The chairman of the Broadcasting Board, Mr. H. D. Yickery, is a public accountant of W ellington, where he has been practising for the past 22 years. For a number of years he has acted as an examiner in accountancy subjects for the University of New Zealand. He is connected with a number of companies, ineluding Metters (N.Z.), Ltd., B. L. Hart and Co., Ltd., and the Paparoa Coal Co., Ltd. Mr. Vickery acted for the Government on the committee for the revision of the Companies j Act. Fpr ten years he was secretary for the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and he was the first secretary of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce. Last April Mr. Vickery was appointed a member of the Earthquake Adjustment Court.
Mr. L. R. C. Macfarlane Mr. L. R. C. Macfarlane, who is a farmer at Culverden, is president of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He is also president of the Royal Agricultural Society. For many years past Mr. Macfarlane has taken a prominent part in farmers' movements, and is well-known as a successful agriculturalist. At the 1928 General Election he unsuccessfully contested the Hurunui seat in the Reform Party's interests against the Prime Ministe-r, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes. Mr. G. R. Hutchinson Mr. George R. Hutchinson is the managing director of Hutchinsons (Wholesale), Limited. He is chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, and a member of the Auckland Transport Board. He was a member of the Grafton School Committee 38 years ago. He also served on the Edendale and Birkenhead School Committees. Mr. Hutchinson was elected to the Auckland Harbour Board 18 years ago. He has been a member of the Auckland City Coun-
cil, and was at one time chairman of the tramways and waterworks committee. He left New Zealand as a captain in the Army Service Corps in 1915, returning after four years' service with the rank of major.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 December 1931, Page 2
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