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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr A. E. Mabin, Wellington, has been re-elected president of the New Zealand Wool Brokers’ Association. He has previously occupied that position on 10 occasions. Mr A. W. Pomare has commenced duty in the Wairarapa as district health inspector, pending the arrival of a successor to Mr H. A. Truman, who has taken up an apointment with the Dannevirkc Borough Council. Mr Pomare is a son of the late Sir Maui Pomare. Mr W. G. Tweedie, Mayor of Timaruj was apppointed New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner- in the Middle East at a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Red Cross Society at Wellington yesterday. He served in the last war with the Medical Corps with the rank of captain and was awarded the M.B.E. for his services. He will leave for the Middle East as scon as possible. The term of office of Mr A. E. Mabin, as a shareholders' representative on the board of directors of the Bank ,of New Zealand, will expire by effluxion of time on March 31 next. In terms of thp bank's deed of settlement the date for giving notice of candidature for this office expired on September 30. As the seat on the board was not contested Mr Mabin is reelected for a further term of three years.

Mr Thomas G. Cox, supervisor of the accountants’ branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, is retiring after completing over 40 years’ service. Mr Charles Collins, of Auckland, and formerly of the Masterton branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, has received notice to proceed shortly to Waiouru Camp as a future member of New Zealand’s now famous Tank Corps in the Middle East. A sister of Mr Collins's was a radiological mem-* her of St. Giles Hospital, London, when that institution was destroyed by bombs during one of last year’s air raids, and of which experience she writes her New Zealand relatives a most vivid first hand account.