PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 54, 6 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

* Mr Harold Beauchamp has been reappointed director of the Bank of New Zealand for two years. It is understood (reports the Press Association) that Mr J. H. Upton, of Auckland, will also be re-appointed a director.

Mr Robert Semple, a well-known figure in Labour circles, was presented on Tuesday with a substantial cheque, the amount of which had been subscribed by Labour organisations throughout the Dominion.

Messrs Thos. Buchanan, W. F. Jenkins, H. Langman, J. H. Smith, and A. Scholes have been returned unopposed as members of the Taumarunui Licensing Committee.

Mr L. P. Blundell, of the Wellington Evening Post, has'been appointed chairman of directors of the Press Association, states a message from Tiraaru to-day.

Dr. McNab. who was reported as having been shot while attending to the wounded at the front, has now written to friends in London stating that he is a prisoner in Germany. It was evidently a case of mistaken identity, of which there have been quite ,a number.

The following office-bearers were elected at the annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association at T'imaru yesterday; Mr P. Selig was unanimously re-elected president; vice-president. Mr F. E. Hyman; committee, Messrs L. Blundell, 'George Fenwick. F. Pirani, E. Abbey, Jones, H. Horton; awards committee, the president and Messrs R. B. Bell, H. Horton, F. E. Hyman, F. Pirani, and W. C. Weston; hon. auditor, Mr E. G. Kerr; secretary and treasurer, Mr L. J. Berrv.