PERSONAL.
1 I Mr. and Mrs. English and Mrs. Davies, visitors to Auckland from Christchurch, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. W*. C. McGregor, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. J. F. M. Fraser as Crown Solicitor at Dunedin. Mr. Justice Hosking will leave Auckland for Hamilton on Suesday next, to continue the civil sittings on the Wednesday. Mr. W. J. ■ Bardsley, secretary of the Otago Harbour Board, is at present on a visit to Auckland, and is staying at Glenalvon. Mr. Walter L. Xewman and Miss Xew-' man, visitors at the Grand Hotel, will leave Xew Zealand "»y the Xiagara on her next trip. Mr. A. Kidd has been nominated by Mr. A. M. Myers as a candidate for the Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School. Mr. P. B. La Morte, of Napier, who will leave by the Xiagara for an extended trip abroad, arrived by the Westralia, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. L. A. Abraham, of Palmerston Xorth, will leave for the Old Country on a trip by the s.s. Rotorua. Mr. Abraham is at present staying in Aucklanß. Mr. M. Cable and Mr. H. Lear, of the •staff of the Wellington Corporation Tramways, are at present on an official visit bo Auckland, and are staving at the StaT Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Shorter, 0 f Sydney, who are on a holiday visit to Xew Zealand, arrived in Auckland from Wellington to-day. and are staving at the Grand Hotel. Captain H. C. Carr, who went down with the auxiliary cruiser Bayano when she was torpedoed off the coast of Scotland recently, was in charge of H.M.s. Psyche in Xew Zealand a year a"0. Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Hume, R.X.Z.A., Officer-Commanding. the District, and Colonel C. T. Major, Officer-Commanding the Auckland Infantry Brigade, will leave for Whangarei to-night by the Manaia to visit the training camp "of the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment, at Ruatangata. Dr. D. M. Y.'Sommerville (from St. Andrews'), Professor of Mathematics at Victoria College (Wellington), and Dr. E. Marsden (of Manchester), Professor of Physics at the same college, who arrived at Auckland by the Rotorua on Tuesday, have been welcomed to their new appointments by the Victoria College Council. Major C. R. Macdonald, 1.G.5., GeneraT Staff Officer of tne Auckland District, will pay a visit of inspection on Monday to the training camp at Tauranga, of the **D" and "E" squadrons of the 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles. The other squadrons of the Waikato Mounteds will go into camp at Morrinsville at the end of April. Mr. D. Teed, Mayor of Xewmarket, was to-day waited on by a deputation of influential ratepayers of the borough and urged to reconsider his decision not to again seek election this year. Mr. Teed, in replying to the 'deputation, said he was going out of town for a | few days. He would give the request his serious consideration, and let the I members know his decision some time I next week. Mr. John P. Bray, United States Consul-General for Australia, who has [been transferred to Singapore after , nearly eighteen years' service in Aus- | tralia, wHI take his departure from Sydney about the middle of next month. , His successor will be Mr. Joseph BritI tain, Consul-General in New Zealand. Mr. E. Verne Richardson, Vice-Consul-General for the United States in Sydney has received advice that be had been promoted to the post of Consul at Salina Cruz, in Mexico.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 19 March 1915, Page 6
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