PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 194, 14 August 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., has resigned from Canterbury Repatriation Board. I The Rev. W._ Todd has been elected moderator of Christchurch Presbytery. J Lord Plunket, formerly Governor of 2\ew Zealand, left unsettled personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £12,4G5. Mr. E. Phelan, of the Prices Investigation Tribunal, and Mr. E. Carter, local officer of the Tribunal, left for Rotorua this morning. Mr. X. H. Hanna Tvas admitted as a ■barrister by .Mr. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court on the application of Mr. J. R. Reed, K.C. Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, Secretary and Paymaster-General of the Xew Zealand Treasury, jhae arrived in England !on his mission to make inquiries on i certain financial matters on behalf of the Dominion. Mr. J. W. Wiseman, managing director lof J. Wiseman and Sons, Ltd., is now in : 1/igla.nd with |his wife. They have toured I the United States, and hope to return to J New Zealand about the middle of December, via Suez. Mr. M. G. Pezaro, B.Sc., son of Mr. IG. Pezaro, of Auckland, tied for first : place in physiology at the Glasgow ' University, out of 600 students. Mr. Pezaro gained a certificate of distinc- , tion. While at the front he won an overseas scholarship, and is now •studying medicine at the Glasgow University. Captain George Hooper, of the ~SJZ. Government Marine Department, who I has been in England in connection with ! the selection of a suitable war vessel to replace the boys' training ship Amoknra, returns to the. Dominion per b.s. ! Wiltshire, leaving Liverpool on July 10. 1 The occasion oMIr. T. E. Roberts' retirement from the position of first assistant Local Deputy Public Trustee was marked by a pleasing function, when the local etaft" met to show him tho regard in which ho was held, and to wish, him happiness and prosperity for tho futuro, Tho occasion was taken to present him with a travelling hap, rug, and cheque from his fellow ollkers in Auckland and Wellington. Air. Roberta is leaving to-day for Patea, j whero he is going into practice as a. [solicitor.