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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 253, 24 October 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL.

. Captain L. H. Booth, of Rotorua, is Staying at Cargen. j Mr. V. H. Potter returned by the express from attending the Soldiers' Aseoelation Conference at Wellington. ! Mr. D. Cuddie, director of the dairy, division of tho Agricultural Department, leaves for Whangarei this evening. j Dr. H. M. May, who recently arrived in Christehurch from Dunedin, has'been I appointed sixth resident medical officer, at the Christehurch Hospital. . Mr. E. W. Ralph, general manager of ! the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative ' Association, left by last night's express ! for Wellington. I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pavitt and daughter have returned to Auckland after an absence of two years, and are j staying at Arundel. I Mr. J. Jamieson, of the well-known I firm of contractors, Christehurch, who returned by the Niagara yesterday, was ' a passenger South by the express last j night. I Mr. H. R. Spence, with his wife and I daughter, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Spence for the last seven years represented the New Zealand Cub- j toms Department in London. | j Mr. Frank H. Burbush, Auckland dis- j trict repatriation officer, left for the Thames on Departmental business by • train yesterday. He expects to return i lon Tuesday next. i ! Mr. W. J. H. Broadbent, late of the Auckland Harbour Board, and for the last eighteen months surveyor to the City Tramways Department, is leaving Auckland to take up a position with the j Napier Harbour Board. J Mr. J. H.-Gunson, Mayor of Auckland, I has written to the Deputy-Mayor stating I that his wife and himself are in much better health They had just done 2,600 miles by motor, and at the date of writing were on their way back to Callj fornia after having visited Niagara and, i New York | A very pleasant function took place jat the City Markets on Tuesday after- ! noon, when a presentation of a piece of | silver plate was made to Mr. E. H. Little, . for many years associated with the fruit j and produce business in the markets. ' All the heads of the firms were present, and a good number of pleasant speeches ' were made, Mr. Little suitably respond ingMr. and Mrs. Brodie Mack left yesterI day for Sydney, to which place Mr. Mack has been transferred as assistant general manager of -the Fuller circuit. Prior to his departure Mr. Mack was the recipient of a handsome leather travelling bag, suitably inscribed, and a travelling rug from the permanent staff of Fuller's Opera House. Mr. John I Fuller also presented Mr. Mack with | a set of Loewe pipes .in case. f Mr. H. R. Spence, resident agent in I London for New Zealand Customs, returned to the Dominion by the Niagara after an absence of seven years. The creation of the office in 1912, Mr. Spence states, has more than justified itself, and has now become a permanency, at present under charge of Mr. T. :R. Herd. Mr. Spence, accompanied by ;' his wife and is staying for a i few days in Auckland before going on ]to Dunedin to take up the office of col- , lector of Customs there. The New Zealand champion soldier- ] athletes, Messrs. 11. E. Wilson, D. L. Mason, Lindsay, and J. Wilton, who j have put up many fine performances ; against the world's best at Home, are i passengers 'by the steamer Arawa, which |is due to arrive here on November 19. It .is understood that they will be | accorded a reception befitting the I honour they have 'brought upon the ! name of Xciv Zealand in the world of athletics. I