PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 56, 7 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Professor Burbidge was a pasenger from Sydney by the Maheno. Mr. W. H. Hamer, engineer to the Harbour Board, has returned from his trap to Great Britain. Mr. A. Jamieson, U.8.E., Chief Provost of Darvel, Ayr.sliire, Scotland, for M years, is staying at the Grand Hotel. M. Turquet de Beauregard, who ia to relieve the local French Consul (M. liippeauj, arrived from Sydney by the Mohuno on Saturday. Sir Frederic Lang, Speaker of the House of Representatives was a pas,rnger by the express last night for '< Wellington. ! Mr. H. I. Richmond has been unani- j re-elected president of the ! Auckland Law Society, -Mr. J. K. Alex- j ander being chosen vice-president. | Dr. H. Dean Bamford, who.-c illness | has been the cause of anxiety to his friends, is now well on the way to recovery, and hopes to 'be able to return j to his office, shortly. j The Rev. T. V. Dillon, minister of I Southport Presbyterian Church, India.- | napolis, 1.5.A., is returning to hU duties ; by the Makura this week, after aj visit to friends and relatives here. j Mr. Micnae! Clyd.- Barnett la- been ' appointed assistant Pubii: Trustee ia : place of Mr. .1, W. MacDona'.d, who was recently promoted to Public Trustee. Mr. P. T. Birch, of the Ma-ter Painters' Federation, will leave for Aus- | tralki on Tuesday on a business ! and healtli recruiting visit. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Birch Mr. and Mrs. J. VV. Wiseman returned by the Maheno after an absence of or seven months spent in the States and Great Britain. Their son, Mr. ', I li. Wiseman, also returned. He left as ! a member of the Expeditionary Force j during the late war. ' The R:?ht Rpv. Mons. Ormond. D.D.,| was a passenger by the Makura fhU j morning from Sydney. Dr. Ormjnd was J »«-retary to the Pipal Delegate to Au=- i J tralia, and recently resigned to take up [arish work in his old Diocese of Auck-, land. I I .Mr. Ernest Davis returned to Auck-j l..nd t>; the Makura to-day. Since he i left New Zealand M~. Davis spent most o\ his time in Great Br'tain, but t-avel'ed extensively on the Continent, i'l'iuc'ed in his itinerary beinfr a trip^ j th:oHL'h Orman) - . i Professor P. \V. Burbidge. MwSc, ! who has been appointed Professor of Physics at Auckland L'nivercity, and Professor W. Anderson, for the newly- | created chair of Philosophy, arrived by j I the Ruapehu at Wellington on Saturday, \ also Mr. W. S. Gray, lecturer in en- ] j gineering. I Mr. H. Trevelyan King, president of the Auckland division of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Association, accomi panied by Mr. K. Smith, vice-prrsident, ! and Messrs. Eceles and Jefferson, execuItive members, left by last night's express for Christchurch to attend the ajinual conference to be opened next week. Mr. Laird also went to represent the Auckland wholesale houses at the conference. ! Captain C. W. R. ftoyd*. C.M.G., j has been appointed to Osborne in com- I mand of the R.N. College. Captain j Royds will be remembered in Xew Zea- I land in connection, with Antartic | exploration. He was first lieutenant of the Discovery under Captain R. F. Scott. liWl-IfMH. and he has lately held an important position at the Admiralty. Mr. T. T. Kin?, lately chief at Dunedin. now retired on superannua- ' tion, is visiting Auckland Mr. King, in ; 1 his youna days, was in the centre of the ' Taranaki, Waitara and Kawhia fighting , j For 2.i years he was postmaster at Gore, j j:in<l »ii then made snb-inp.-ctor of Post | and Telegraph offices throughout Xett Zealand.