PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24884, 26 October 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. F. James, of Dunedin, was made a life member of the Wairio Jockey Club at the annual meeting of members of the club last week. ■

Mr D. B. Kilgour, the newly-appoint-ed postmaster and stationmaster at Waimahaka, took over his duties there on Saturday. Pilot Officer Arthur McCarthy who was reported missing, believed killed, in a recent R.N.Z.A.F. casualty list, at one time lived in Invercargill, his father, Mr F. H. McCarthy, having been a member of the staff of the Invercargill Corporation as a mechanic at the waterworks. Mr McCarthy has lived in Auckland for several years where his son also lived and where he was married before joining the Air Force. Group Captain A. de T. Nevill, who has been appointed acting air commodore, held various staff appointments in the Royal New Zealand Artillery until his transfer to the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1930. He attended the Royal Air Force Staff College at Andover in 1935. In 1937 he was appointed air staff and intelligence officer at Air Headquarters and became one of the three members of the Air Board. In April last year he was appointed an honorary aide-de-camp to the then Governor-General, Lord Galway. In January of this year he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.