PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 301, 18 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Douglas Davys, of Rotorua, isstaying at the Grand HoteL .. ; .i; ,Nurse.„N.. C._., Anderson, arrived in Aucklank this m6_iing: 0 - ; -- ! T^ The Hon. Charles and Mrs. Johnston are at present in Auckland. | Lieutenant J. A. Carr and Lieutenant P. 0. P. Beck arrived in Auckland this morning. " Mr. J. H. Gunson (Mayor), with hi* wife and family, left to-day for a Christ-mas-New Year vacation. > Captain Colin McDonald, marine: superintendent for the Union S_.Co, left for the south last evening. •Mr. A. D. Lubecki, who ha« been spending three months at Rotorua, has returned to Auckland. ......... ~:• \ For the third time in succession Hon. : ; H. M. Scott, K.C., has been elected Mayor; of Suva. ! Mr. A. D. I/übecki, who has been at Rotorua for the last three months, returned to Auckland yetsterday. | Mr. Wm. S. Vernon, B.Sc, of Dunedip, was appointed by the Auckland Univer-> ¥ sity College Council yesterday to the position of Physics Lectureship for ; Arrivals at "Cargen" include Mr RobC| Bell, Mr William Bell, Mr Charles 8e11,..': Miss Bell, and Lieut. K. C. Bell, Ashburton; Mr A. R. Carmichael, Napier; Miss C. Swanston, Rotorua; Mrs Carrr Rollett, Rotorua. Major Edw„rd Puttick, who was men-. ; j tioncd in Sir Douglas Haig's. dispatches, j and has recently been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, is the fourth: son of Mr. aud Mrs. J. Puttick, of, | Oamaru, and is only 27 years of age. •Mr. H. H. Ebey, who visited New Zealand some time ago on behalf of the. Luckenback S.S. Company, is now ■a. ! traffic director " for the United States Shipping Bureau. The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. W.'F.vMassey) left by the express laat night for Ohakune, for the purpose of opening the section of the railway to Raetihi today. This evening the Prime Minister •will return to Wellington. Mr. J. F. Dicketts, the superintendent in Fiji for the Pacific Cable Board, bar been promoted to Auckland, where he will take up a similar position nest month. He was very popular locally, ani apart from his position as superintendent of the cable took a public interee*. in the town. =,">.-■' ! The Rev. H. A. Wynter Blathw&yt, vicar of the Waimea, Plains, who lias 'been rector of Thorpe Abbots, Scole, Norfolk; for nearly a year, is .now on his way to Egypt, where he will be chaplain to the -vow Zealand Forces. During «» Mr. Blathwayt acted as senior chapl»» at a large camp at Five- Rivers Zealand). j The Hon. T. M. Wilford left Wtlling- ' ton yesterday for a tour of the prisP» camps in the north at Kaingaroa,.„« Arai (on the Waimarino-Tokaanußoattli and Waikeria. He will also ytfrt Whakatane on harbour matters, and M is to go to Thames to see apdut.» request that is being made there To? the provision of cool storage. for nso. He will also visit Auckland in connection with prisons and marine m»ttersi and will not return to Wellington tiu after the holidays.