PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

J'iip Hon. D. G. Siifiivan. Minister ,f Industries and < m.miprce. arrived n Auckland from Wellington by train Mr P. C. Boxsell. of Sydney, is visiting Hamilton. Dr. A. Jameson, of Iluntly, is visiting the medical conference at Christchurch. Mr J. A. Gentles, of Auckland, was a visitor at the weekly luncheon of the Hamilton Rotary Club to-day. Mr L. A. Firkin, well known in musical circles, is leaving Timaru this week to take up a position in Hamil-

Messrs F. E. Brown. B. L. H. de Rose (Wellington . L. Foster. E. Cameron Napier . D. G. Allen Taumarunui), L. N. Ross and G. Burns (Auckland) and at the Hamilton Hotel.

Mr J. A. Fraser, of Melbourne, will judge the music sections at this year’s competitions in Christchurch. Mr R. McSkimming. of Auckland, will be elocution adjudicator.

Mr F. R. Picot. Director of Internal Marketing, has left for a tour of several days of the northern gumflelds. to discuss with the producers certain questions relating to the marketing of kauri gum.

Mr H. E. Edgley, chairman of the Napier Chamber of Commerce, who is to leave Napier in May on a tour abroad, will represent the Napier body at. the Empire Chambers of Commerce conference in London in July.

Mr A. A. Woodward, engineer of the Waikato County Council, and Mr J. W. Civil, engineer of the Waipa County Council, are attending the annual conference of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers in Auckland.

Mr J. N. Munro, signal and electric hnes inspector at Frankton Junction Railway Station, has been transferred to Woolston and left at the end of last week. He has been promoted to electric traction inspector. Mr L. Fahy, who was electric lines inspector at Frankton prior to Mr Munro's appointment about six months ago, has returned to his former position.