PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 71, 29 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. Besrg, Mayor of Dunetlin, i 3 aram a candidate for office for the ensuing: year. Mr. C." Roberts, late Chief Justice oS Samoa, returned to Auckland to-day on a business trip. Mr. X. Valla-. Genera! Traffic Manager of the. Union ?.>. Co.. returned br t'le Maheno from Sydney. Archdeacon C. Mac Murray left last night by the express en route to Christchurch and Dunedin. Professor Worley will be absent froir* Auckland for ten days in connection with the sitting of the Kauri Gum Commission. Major James R. Boose, travelling , commissioner of the Royal Colonial Institute, is expected to arrive in Auckland by the Niagara on April 11. Mr. H. A. Huggins, Controller of Sav-i injrs Banks, G.P.0., with Mrs. and Miss Huggins, arrived in Auckland this morning for a few weeks' holiday. Mr. (H. R. -Segar, son of 'Professor IL W. -Serrar, was a passenger for Weliin.<rton by last nighfs express. He leaves for .London by the Fort Melbourne. The Right Hon. W. F. Massey. Prime Minister, attained hi? nrttb year on Saturday. He arrived in New Zealand, half a century ago by the City of Auckland. ■Dts. J. T. Eliot, 1. L. Ferguson, W. Irv : ng, !W. Newlands, and W. H. Parkes have been reappointed memrbers oi the Medical Board under the Medical Practitioners Act. T>r. J. M. Steward, Anglican Bishop of ■Melanesia, arrived by r he Maheno from Sydney yesterday. On Monday he pws to Wellington to artend the Bis'aop=' Conference, and expects to leave for the Islands about the middle of ApriL Sir ■Disfbton Proton, V".C, Comptroller to Queen Alexandra, recently celebrated his SSth birthday. A few months ago he. as lite eldest V.C. winner alive, headed rhe procession at a garden fete in Buckingham Palace, given by the King and Qaten in honour of "the . bravest of the brave." Mr. Archibald Hutton. who died, at Clirtha. aged 77 years, was stung on the neck by a aornnt wiiiie vis'ting Canada some months ago. Upon arrival in Auckland 'he was operated upon, but never recovered his health. Dr. Alexander McTaggart, formerly Dominion Agriculturist, arrived in Wellington by the Tahiti. Last February he received from Cornell University the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. While at that university he specialised particularly on soil technology, physiography, and glacial theology, as we'll as farm crnTw Dr. McTaggart has visited most of Jt important colleges and experimental ations in the United States and Canada. He got the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at Toronto University and Master or Science at Cornell University.