PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. V. C. Stafford, minister-elect of the Church of Christ. Vivian Street, and his family, arrived from Invercargil by the steamer express .this morning. Mr. Stafford's ministry commences next Sunday. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. K. H. Tucker, who represented Wellington at Rugby in 1897, was passed at a meeting »l the Wellington Rugby Union's management committee last night. Mr. T. E. Kelly, electrical engineer in charge at the Tuai power station, Waikaremoana, has received advice of his transfer to Hamilton, and will be succeeded by Mr. .J. R. Lough, of the district office, Palmerston North. Dr. Frank Turner, Auckland, has returned from the United States. Ha was awarded a fellowship.at Yale University, where he has been- doing research work in geology for the past year. Dr. Turner, .who is a son of the late Mr. J. H. Turner, formerly of the staff of the Auckland Grammar School, has resumed his duties at Otago University. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, M.P., v-aS a passenger by the Limited express, from Auckland today. ' Mr. J. A. C. Allum, Deputy Mayor1 of Auckland, arrived by train todayon a short business trip. . Dr. Kenneth McCormick arrived by the Limited express today from Auckland. Mr.' Harry H. Pattle, Pukekohe, ihas been motoring extensively in. Great' Britain since" last February, states "THe Post's" London correspondent. On® result is thai he has sketched over 120 views of different typical "Home" scenery. He was elected *an honorarymember of the Langham'Art Club,, which recently entertained him at « farewell dinner and presented him. with three beautiful original sketches* He is returning to New Zealand in December with his sister, Miss Katharine. Pattle, and Mrs. Eveleigh, Otorohanga. Mr. James Lobb, of Lawrence, Otago; who recently returned from his eleventh trip around the world in "following the sun," will leave for the south tonight by steamer express. The war has interfered, considerably with the lecture bookings of Mr. Alan C. Browne, F.R.G.S., A.R.C.A., states "The Post's" London ■ correspondent. His dates were many, and the centres arranged for were in all parts of England and Scotland. On December 11 he will give an address before the 'Royal Geographical Society, in Kensington. In the summer Mr. Browne and three other New Zealanders climbed the Matterhorn. They were ; Messrs. A. P. Thompson (Wellington and Christchurch), Douglas Hueston,and Harold K. Douglas (of the Public • Trust Office, Wellington, and a mem-. . ber of the New Zealand Alpine Club). . They were accompanied by Adolf Pollinger, the well-known sguide, a mem- . ber of the family of far-famed guides. • Several members of Parliament were amongst the passengers who arrived . from the south -today. . They were ' Messrs. T. L. Mac Donald (Mataura), T. D. Burnett (Temuka), W. A. Bod- '• kin (Central Otago), D. C. Kidd (Wai- ' taki), A. N. Grigg (Mid-Canterbury), Mrs. C. Stewart (Labour, Wellington. West), and the Rt. Hon. G. W. and Mrs; Forbes (Hurunui). ' ' Mr. C. E. Begg, of Dunedin, arrived from the south today.