PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24236, 20 September 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Minister of Education (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason), who arrived in Invercargill last night accompanied by Mrs Mason and his private secretary, Mr P. J. G. Smith, will confer with members of the Southland Education Board this morning, and will later visit the South, St. George and Tisbury schools. He will meet members of the Southland Girls’ High School Board at 11 a.m. and members of the Southland Technical College Board at 11.30 a.m. In the afternoon he will travel to Gore, where he will open the new technical block of the Gore High School. Mr Mason stated last night that the purpose of his visit was to inquire into the educational needs of the district, and to see if the more urgent of them could be met as speedily as possible. The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) arrived' in Invercargill from Wellington last night. He was accompanied by his private secretary, Mr C. H. Williams. This morning Mr Hamilton will discuss with the county councils of Southland the rural housing scheme and the financing of house building through these bodies. In the afternoon he will attend the annual meeting of the Southland Fanners Co-operative Association, Ltd., _ as chairman of directors. Tomorrow _ night he will unveil a memorial tablet in the Forest Hill hall commemorating the golden jubilee of the Forest Hill school. Mr Hamilton will leave Invercargill for Dunedin on Monday afternoon and will travel to Wellington on Tuesday. Mr J. S. Brass was elected president of the Southland Cricked Association at the annual meeting of the association last evening. Mr A. S. Holms left for Wellington by the express yesterday morning to attend a meeting of the Meat Producers’ Board.

Mr Robert Fisher was elected president of the Gore Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting last night, Mr W. L. Jourdain, poultry instructor of the Department of Agriculture, Dunedin, is at present visiting Invercargill.

Mr R. A. Wallis was elected the Gore Chamber of Commerce’s delegate to the Southland Progress League at the annual meeting of the chamber last night.

Police Sergeant S. King, of Invercargill, is at present at Bluff relieving Sergeant J. Coutts, who is on annual leave.

Mr C. C. W. Clark has been appointed by the Transport Department to the position of traffic inspector in the borough of Gore. Mr Clark began his duties yesterday.

Sergeant W. F. Stewart arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening on leave from Addington military camp.

Tributes to his energy and enthusiasm in the interests of cricket in Southland were paid by delegates to Mr Roland Taylor upon his retirement from the management committee of the Southland Cricket Association at the annual meeting of the association last night. Mr Taylor has been president of the association for the last two years and a member of the management committee for many years. He did not seek re-election.

Mr L. A. Troon, who will enter camp with the 4th Reinforcements, was met by the Invercargill staff of the Texas Oil Co., Ltd., at a farewell gathering. The branch manager, Mr G. Scandrett, made a presentation and conveyed the best wishes of the staff to Mr Troon for a safe and early return. Pilot Officer M. J. Herrick, who has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, is a son of Mr E. J. Herrick, Hastings. He is 19 years of age and is a former pupil of Wanganui College. He left about the middle of last year to join' the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell as a cadet Mr W. F. Webb, stationmaster at Thornbury, has been appointed relieving officer at Invercargill and will replace Mr R. O. Brebner, who enlisted in the Railway operating company of the 3rd Echelon. Mr J. H. Pye, stationmaster at Woodlands, will replace Mr Webb at Thornbury and Mr J. P. Cahill, of the Dunedin district, will take over the duties of stationmaster at Woodlands. Messrs R. MacDonald, of Waikuku, and D. R. Ogilvy, Foxton, have been appointed members of the Flax Plan Industrial Committee in place of Messrs A. G. Long and B. B. Wood, who have resigned. These changes in the committee were Gazetted last night.—Press Association,

Major E. H; Whiting has been attached to Army Headquarters, Wellington, for duty as publicity officer and has ceased to be seconded to the Central Military District Headquarters for similar duty, according to a notice in the Gazette last night.—Press Association.

The • Otago Education Board has accepted the resignation of Mr John A. Moore, principal of the Dunedin Training College. It will take effect at the end of the year. Mr Moore was appointed to this position in 1923, and at a meeting of the board the chairman (Mr James Wallace) and Mr W. R. Brugh were deputed to draft a minute of appreciation of his services to education in Otago. Mr H. Prowse, who has been a member of the staff of the Invercargill Borstal Institution for the last eight years, has accepted a position in the North Island and expects to leave soon to take up his duties at Waikeria in the Waikato district. Mr Prowse has taken a prominent part in musical and art circles in Invercargill and he has organized a number of concerts given by the boys of the institution in the Civic Theatre. He has also sung at many functions in Invercargill and various parts of Southland. Mr Prowse has been closely connected with the Southland Art Society as an exhibitor and lecturer. It was largely through his efforts that the Southland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration was formed. He has been secretary of the branch since its inception several years ago.