PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24830, 24 August 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. M. C. Denham, M.P., returned to Invercargill by the express on Saturday afternoon. Mr J. S. Barton, C.M.G., of Wellington, arrived in Invercargill by the express on Saturday afternoon. Today he will hear appeals against the valuation of impressed motor-vehicles. He will probably travel north on Wednesday. Dr A. H. McLintock, lecturer in history at Otago University, who arrived in Invercargill by the express on Saturday afternoon to deliver an address to the Music Section of the University Association of Southland, returned north by the express last night. Mr T. D. Pearce, a member of the Northend Bowling Club, was elected president of the Southland Bowling Centre at the annual meeting on Saturday. Mr S. C. Bingham, district manpower officer, returned to Invercargill by the express on Saturday afternoon. Mr E. McPhail, of Christchurch, a former manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Invercargill, returned north by the express on Saturday after a short visit to the city. He was accompanied by Mrs McPhail. Reference to the deaths during the year of Messrs J. S. Brass, C. J. Broad and A. J. Geddes, former members of the Southland Bowling Centre, was made by the retiring president, Mr I. W. Martin, at the annual meeting of the centre on Saturday. Delegates stood in silence as a mark of respect to their memory.

Sympathy with Mr J. C. Thomson, secretary of the Southland Bowling Centre, in his illness and the hope that he would make a quick recovery were expressed by the president and members of the centre at the annual meeting of delegates on Saturday. Mr C. Casey who resigned from the directorate and chairmanship of the Otara Dairy Factory Company, Ltd. At the annual meeting on Saturday, was thanked for long service to the company. Mr G. Jennings, who moved a vote of appreciation, said it had been learned with regret that Mr Casey was giving up dairying and retiring from the directorate. The Casey family had been closely connected with the company since it was established nearly 50 years ago. The company was losing a valuable supplier, director and chairman., The motion was carried by acclamation. In reply, Mr Casey said his father had been one of the original suppliers of the company and a director for a number of years. He wished the company continued success. Mr A. E. J. Anderson, assistant-chief accountant of the Public Trust Office, has been promoted to the position of chief accountant in succession to Mr F. Menneer, who has been appointed an assistant public trustee. • Mr Anderson was bom in Queenstown, where he received his primary education. He later attended the Otago Boys’ High School, and subsequently Otago University from 1917 to 1920. He joined the staff of the Public Trust Office as a cadet in Dunedin in 1917. He has been assistant-chief accountant since 1936.