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THE EARL OF DERRY, M.C., has been elected president of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
MR. ARTHUR J. SALMON, founder of the Fellowship of the Motor Industry, has been re-elected chairman.
MR. S. BUCHAN, M.A., B.Sc.,
Pti.13.(Camrs8), F.R.I.C., F.I.R.I., general manager of the Andre Rubber Co.,. Ltd., has been appointed to the board.
VISCOUNT HINCHINGBROOKE has been appointed chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Transport Committee. MR. DAVID RENTON is vicechairman, and MR. G. WILSON and MR. MAITLAND, honorary secretaries.
MR. 0. L. HARRIES has been appointed a member of the Welsh Transport Users' Consultative Committee, and MR. W. W. F. SHEPHERD has become chairman of the North West Transport Users' Consultative Committee.
MR. J. FERGUSON, meeting secretary of the Road Haulage Association, stood as Conservative candidate in the recent three-cornered contest in the Potters Bar ward by-election for Potters Bar Urban District Council, and polled 75 per cent, of the votes cast. He is a Canadian domiciled in this country and came to England during the war, during which he served with Bomber Command.
MR. R. POSTG A.T E, A.C.LS., A.M.INsT.I., has been appointed an officer of the London Transport Executive, with the title of traffic auditor. He joined the former London General Country Services, Ltd., in 1932 and became assistant secretary of the company in the following year. After the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board, he served as personal assistant to the general manager from 1935-39, being appointed staff assistant at the end of that period. In 1946 he was made responsible to the operating manager for the administration of the headquarters offitcs and was appointed principal executive assistant (headquarters) in 1951.
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MR. A. TEGERDINE, founder and chairman of the Bus Workers' AntiNationalization Society, has been expelled from the Transport and General Workers' Union. He has appealed against the decision to the national headquarters of the T.G.W.U.
MR. FRANK PERKINS, chairman and managing director of F. Perkins, Ltd., who, as reported last week, received facial injuries in a shooting accident, has undergone three eye operations at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and is reported to be "as comfortable as can be expected."