PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Minister of Education (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) and Mrs Mason will arrive in Invercargill this evening. Tomorrow morning Mr Mason will visit city schools, and in the early afternoon he will travel to Gore, where he will open the new technical block of the Gore High School.

The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, left Wellington last night for Invercargill. He will discuss with the county councils of Southland the rural housing scheme and the financing of house building through these bodies. Before returning to Wellington he will visit Dunedin and other centres.

2nd Lieutenant T. L. Macdonald, M.P., will leave Gore by the express this morning to report for duty at Bumham military camp tomorrow.

Dr F. O. Mac Gibbon has returned to Invercargill after a short visit to Wellington. Mr H. J. Grayson, of Dunedin, assistant general manager of the Standard Insurance Co., Ltd., who has been visiting Invercargill, returned to Dunedin yesterday afternoon. Mr N. Paterson, of Dunedin, who has been visiting Australia for the past three months, arrived in Invercargill .by the express last evening after crossing the Tasman Sea by air. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, M.P., and Mr Johannes C. Anderson have been appointed members of the Maori Purposes Board. Mr Clyde J. Abigail, industrial officer for the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company (Australasia), Limited, who has been visiting Invercargill, will leave tonight for the north. He will visit Wellington and Auckland before returning to Invercargill to attend conciliation proceedings affecting employees of New Zealand Milk Products Limited, Underwood. Mr Warwick E. C. Gregory, who for a number of years has been the local director and manager for New Zealand of the Port Line, was last week elected a member of the London board of directors. Mr Gregory, who went to England on a business visit in April of last year, has since the war started been actively employed in the London office of the Port Line.

Mr R. Hunsley, who will shortly enter camp with the 4th Reinforcements, was bidden farewell by members of the Invercargill staff of Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. The manager, Mr W. Purvis, made a presentation of a razor and writing outfit He expressed the hope that Mr Hunsley would have a safe and early return. Mr Hunsley left Invercargill yesterday for Christchurch. Messrs J. G. Hastie and R. Willis, members of the staff of D. Kingsland and Sons, Ltd., who will go into camp with the 4th Reinforcements, were bidden farewell at a staff gathering. Mr John Murray, in congratulating them on the step they were taking, asked them on behalf of their fellow members of the staff to accept a presentation of wristlet watches. Mr Arthur Kingsland referred to the long association with the firm of both Mr Hastie and Mr Willis and to their sterling qualities. In presenting each with a cheque on behalf of the firm, Mr Rewi Kingsland expressed the hope that they would have a successful career in the Army and wished them a safe and speedy return.