PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL,

This morning, at his office at Government Buildings, his Excellency received the Hon. W. Nash. Minister of Finance.

Later the Governor-General presided at a brief meeting of the Executive Council.

Major G. H. Clition, M.C., N.Z.S.C.. of Army Headquarters, Wellington, h?3 been appointed to the command vt the Northern District Army School U' 'instruction at Narrow Neck camp', I where he will have charge of the training of officers for the second echelon of the Special Force. Major Clifton will proceed to his new appointment today. Mr. Mostyn Holden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Holden, Karori, - who has been attached to the Air Foroa at Blenheim since the outbreak o! war, will leave for Auckland' at th& end of the week to embark for England. Sir Harry Battarbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, wiil leave Wellington for Pictbn and . Blenheim on November 17. He wiil spend the next two days at Nelson, where he will open the annual show of the Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association on November 18. He' • expects to return to Blenheim on Nov» ember 20, and to reach Wellington from Picton on November 21. Captain C. H. Gallagher arrived from the south yesterday. The Yen. Archdsacon Bullock, Vicar. General of the Diocese of Wellington, returned to Wellington yesterday Jtrom the South Island. Mr. V. M. Ambler left Wellington last night for AucklandMr. Hubert Nathan left Wellington ■ last night by the steamer express. Mr. W. J. Mason was a passenger for Auckland last night by tha Limited express. Mr. H. Higgins, Wellington, left for Auckland , last. night. by the Limited express. ' Mr. J. W. Hein'emann 'returned .v» Wellington from the south yesterday. Mr. J. O'Brien, M.P. for. .Westlani, arrived in Wellington from the south yesterdayj Mr. .A. B. Natusch arrived in' Wellington yesterday from the south. Mr. A. Tyndall, Director of.Housing Construction, returned to Wellington . yesterday from the south. ■ Mr. Eric Riddiford, president of th« • Wellington Racing Club, left for the south last night by the steamer express. ,- Mr. W. J. Howes, of Dunedin, is visit- ' ing Wellington. * ' ; Mr. R. D. Nimmo arrived from Dun- ' edin yesterday. • , ' Mr. S. F. Auburn, of Dunedin,. presi- ". dent of the Importers' and Shippers" . Association, and Mr. J. H. 'Edmonfl, vice-president, are visiting Wellington. ■ Mr. C. M. Turrell, general managerof the New Zealand Shipping. Com- - pany, -was a passenger for the. Sou'ib. . Island last night by the steamer ex- , press. . ' . ' Mr. J. Neale, manager in, Wellington of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd.; accompanied by Mrs. Neale, left Wellington last night for the south. , ' . ~\. ; . .■ ■■„ ' The Rev. Father Michel Bardouii, 1 secretary to the Catholic MelkUe- , Metropolitan of Beirut, is ;visitin,| • Auckland. He will remain -for some time to work among the Syrian peopte who have settled in the Dominion. - ', Mr. W. A. Hislop, general manager of Universal Pictures, returned to" Wellington last night with Mr.1 D. Casey,, general sales manager f»r Universal Pictures in Australia. Mr. Casey,, w.i<> - has been visiting his company's f tudios in Universal City, California,. arrived at1 Auckland by the Mariposa. . ' ,■ Lieutenant-Commander ,R.. Hunter-.. Blair, who is well known in New Zea* land, has been appointed Flag-Lieutea-, - : ant to'the Admiral/in charge of ,th« ; Fleet at Scapa. He •is a son of Major • 1 Hunter Blair. Captain E. G. Rhodes, who isl at ■ ' present in London, has been appointed : by the Admiralty to supervise the ar- . \ riving of merchant ships in the Port of 1 London. Captain Tahu Rhodes has been pro--; moted to the rank of majpr and ha 3 been appointed Railway Transport Officer for the London district. Dr. D G. McMillan, M:P- Mr. T. W. McCombs, M.P., the Rev: Clyde Carry. M.P.,. and Mr. \C. Morgan Williams, ■ M.P., were all passengers f rom the south .by the steamer express this morning; Major A: H. Carrington, formerly at the New Zealand Staff Corps, and for some years connected with journalism in New Zealand, has been- appointed .' Brigade Major of the 182 nd (Birmingham) Infantry Brigade -in the 61st Division. Major Carrington has just had published a "Life of CaptaiCook." •