PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL.

Advice has been received that Major R. G. G. ByrOn (late military secretary to the Governor-General) and Lieutenant S. R. LeH. Lombard-Hobson, R.N. (late naval aide-de-camp to the Governor-General)! have arrived in England and rejoined their respective Services.

Sir Alexander Roberts was re-elected president of the Automobile Association (Wellington) at' the annual meeting of the association last evening. .

Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, who has been away in England and elsewhere for the last six months on business connected with his Department, arrived back in Wellington this morning from Auckland. He left England the day prior to the outbreak of war and travelled to New Zealand via South Africa.

Mr. W. A. Boucher, president of the Bureau of Importers, arrived from Auckland today on a short business visit.

Mr. Harold Gatty, representative in New Zealand of Pan-American Airways, left Auckland by the Monterey yesterday for San Francisco.

The Rev. W. N. Flett, of the Roslyn Baptist Church, Dunedin, will leave : shortly for Burnham, where he will take up duties at the military camp, with the V.M.C.A.

Dr. A. D. Trendall, a distinguished New Zealand archaeologist, has been appointed Professor of Greek in the University of Sydney. Dr. Trendall is 30 years of age. He recently lectured at the four university colleges in New Zealand on ■ excavation work in Italy.

Mr. Hector McDonald has been ap-; pointed, general.manager of Sharland and Company, Limited, wholesale, druggists, in succession to Mr. Bruce Smith, who has resigned. Mr. McDonald has been manager of the Wellington warehouse of the company sine* 1931.