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Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Mayor, Mr A. Wachner, accompanied by Councillor R. T. Parsons and the town clerk, Mr W. F. Sturman, were among the passengers to Stewart Island yesterday morning. Mr J. S. Barton, C.M.G., of Wellington, will arrive in Invercargill by the mid-day train from Dunedin today. The purpose of his visit is to hear appeals against the valuations of impressed motor-vehicles.

Dr F. J. Turner, lecturer in geology at Otago University, returned north yesterday after delivering an address, to the Southland branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Mr D. Harris will leave on Monday for Auckland to attend a meeting of the national executive of the General Labourers’ Union.

Captain R. J. Hamilton, of Bluff, is at present visiting Wellington, where he will attend the Master Mariners Association’s dinner tonight. He will return to Bluff on Tuesday. Dr J. G. Macdonald, president-elect of the Invercargill Rotary Club, and Mr G. G. Osborne, acting secretary, have returned from Timaru, where they attended the district conference of Rotary. Mr F. G. Hall-Jones, District Governor-elect of Rotary for New Zealand, proceeded from Timaru to Wellington to be present at the North Island assembly of Rotary clubs. Winner of the Military Cross for gallantry in the fighting on Ruweisak Ridge, Captain A. H. Norris, of Geraldine, and formerly of Christchurch, who served in the South African War as a sergeant in the 2nd Contingent, and was awarded the Queen’s Medal with five clasps. Captain Norris, who is an old boy of Christ’s College, gained his commission in New Zealand. Before the New Zealand Division was transferred to Egypt he commanded A Company of the battalion to which Lieutenant G. S. Cooper, another Military Cross winner and Christ’s College old boy, belonged. The Rev. H. G. Norris, a brother of Captain Norris, is a chaplain to the forces.