PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr R. King (Dannevirke) was a guest yesterday at the Empire Hotel, Masterton.

The death has occurred of Mr Jonas Lie, the artist, a New York cablegram reports. The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, returned to Wellington from the north today. Mr W. O. Rennie has been re-elect-ed chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College.

After 49 years' service with the Public Works Department, Mr G. H. Murray, assistant roads engineer in Napier, is to retire. The friends of Mr F. R. Garland, well known in Masterton farming circles, will regret to learn of the death of his father in Waimate yesterday. Mr Garland has left for the South Island.

The following members of the New Zealand Survey Board have been appointed as from January 1, 1940. according to a “Gazette” notice last night:—Messrs. G. H. Bullard, M. Crompton-Smith, A. H. Bogle, and C. K. Grierson. The last two were nominated by the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Mr. R. G. Milligan, Auckland director and attorney of the Martha Gold Mining Co. (Waihi) Ltd., will shortly relinquish his position to take up a

commercial post in Australia. Mr Milligan was appointed local director anct attorney to the original Waihi Gold Mining Co., Ltd., out of which the Martha company was formed, after the death of Mr Charles Rhodes in 1932.

At the annual meeting of the Dorninon Croquet Council held in Lower Hutt yesterday the following were elected to office: President, Mr. R. McCreath (Gore); vice-presidents, Mesdames A. H. Keesing (Auckland) and J. McDonald (Otago); New Zealand handicapper, Mrs. C. Watkins (Hastings); New Zealand referee, Mr A. G. F. Ross (Christchurch); secretary and treasurer, Mrs W. S. Austin (Wellington); assistantsecretary, Mrs. W. E. Caldow (Wellington); editor-manager of “Gazette,” Mrs E. McKenzie (Wellington).

Two notices appearing in last night’s "Gazette” have a special bearing on the appointment of Major-General B. C, Freyberg to the command of the Second' New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The first notice states that the Governor-General has been pleased to approve Major-General Freyberg being placed on loan from the British Army to His Majesty’s Government in New Zealiand, dated November 21, 1935. The second notice states that the Go-vernor-General has approved MajorGeneral Freyberg's appointment to the command of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. This notice is dated January 5, 1940. With the death of Mr Arthur Henry Gibson, J.P., at his residence, Ng’aio, recently. New Zealand lost an early settler who had varied and interesting experiences from 1879 onward. Mr Gibson was a son of the Rev. Robert Henry Gibson, and at the age of 17 arrived in New Zealand with his father on a visit. Conditions proving suitable, Mr Gibson. Sent'., returned to England for the rest of his family, leaving .his son as a cadet on the farm of Major Harry Atkinson (afterwards Sir Harry Atkinson). Mr. Gibson. Junr., was educated by private tuition and at Owen s College, Manchester. England. Failing health compelled him to relinquish the land. Before his retirement 15 years ago. Mi'. Gibson was on the stall of the Magistrate’s Court. Wellington.