PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24234, 18 September 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr H. J. Grayson, of Dunedin, general manager of the Standard Insurance Co., Ltd., arrived in Invercargill yesterday on a visit to the branch of the company.

Dr A. Kidd, superintendent of the Waipiata Sanatorium, is visiting Invercargill. He is at the Grand Hotel. Mr E. A. Pankhurst,. who has been postmaster at Wyndham for the last nine years and a-half, has received notice of his transfer to a similar position at Carterton. He will take up his new position on September 30. Mr J. Kemp, manager of the Winton Experimental and Demonstration Farm, has resigned to take over a property of his own. His resignation was accepted with regret at the monthly meeting of the farm committee. Reference to the excellent service given by Mr Kemp was made by members of the committee and best wishes were expressed for success in his new venture.

Mr J. W. Woodcock, fields superintendent for Otago and Southland of the Department of Agriculture, arrived in Invercargill yesterday and attended a meeting of the Lime Committee of the Southland Primary Production Council with representatives of the lime companies. He will return north today.

Mr P. H. McGrath, of Palmerston North, arrived in Invercargill last night. He will spend a holiday with his parents, Mr and Mrs A. E. McGrath, Dee street, before going into military camp. Mr McGrath, who was formerly a prominent competitive swimmer in Southland, went to Palmerston North two years ago.

Mr J. R. McKenzie, managing director of McKenzie’s Department Stores Ltd., visited Invercargill yesterday on business, arriving in the morning and leaving in the afternoon for Dunedin. Mr McKenzie attended the weekly luncheon of the Invercargill Rotary Club, at which the president (Mr A. Derbie) referred to Mr McKenzie’s gift of £lOO,OOO to charity, which was announced at the Rotary conference held in Palmerston North last March. “Mr McKenzie’s name will always be remembered in Rotary for his wonderful gift given through his association with Rotary,” said Mr Derbie. When Mr McKenzie’s gift was announced, it was stated that it would be held in trust and the income devoted to assist New Zealand disabled soldiers and sailors, . the Plunfet Society, ailing and delicate children, and to general charitable purposes. The death of Mr k. M. Isaacs was referred to at the annual meeting of the Union Cricket Club last night. The chairman, Mr R. Swinney, said Mr Isaacs had been a vice-president of the club. A motion of sympathy was passed with the relations.

Members of the executive committee of the Invercargill Returned Soldiers’ Association expressed pleasure at the appointment of Major-General Sir Andrew Russell as Inspector-Gen-eral of the New Zealand Military Forces at a meeting of the committee which was held on Mopday night. It was decided to write to Sir Andrew conveying the association’s congratulations to him on his appointment. Officers of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors were elected at the annual meeting of the institute as follows:—President, Mr C. K. Grierson (Auckland); vice-presidents, Messrs H. L. Paterson (Dunedin) and M. Gandar (Wellington); councillors, Messrs T. W. Preston (Christchurch), E. V. Blake (Auckland), R. G. Dick (Wellington), A. C. Cooke (Gisborne), H. L. P. Dyett (Wellington), and A. H. Bogle (Wanganui); auditor, Mr G. J. J. Feil; secretary and treasurer, Mr H. Esmond Greig (Wellington).

A decision to send a call to the Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes, Auckland, was unanimously reached at a congregational meeting of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington, last week. The charge became vacant on the departure of the Rev. J. R. Blanchard to Adelaide. Mr Hughes has been minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, since February 1935. After a distinguished career at the University of Wales and later at Cambridge, Mr Hughes was a master in secondary schools for seven years before entering the ministry. He was minister at Anglesea, Wales, for six years and then came to New Zealand, and in 1921 he entered on a ministry at Timaru that proved to be conspicuously successful in the 12 years of his charge. In 1933 he went to England with his wife and family and was in charge of a church near Newcastle-on-Tyne for a year. He returned to New Zealand in October 1934. During his residence in the Dominion, he has taken a prominent part in public activities.