PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. H. Lowry was a passenger foi the South by last night's Main Trunk express. Mr. A. S. Barker, of Gieborne, and Mr. A. W. Mason, of Gieborne, are visiting Auckland. The Rev. G. T. Beale, vicar of Tβ Henui, New Plymouth, and Mrs. Beale, are leaving for England at the end of February. Mr. Beale was formerly curate at St. Barnabas Churth, Auckland. Mr. A. BJackwood, superintending engineer at the Lake Coleridge powerstation, has received notification of bis transfer to the Mangahao power station, North Island. He will take up his duties next month. The Rev. J. Lamb Harvey, of St. Andrew's Church, intends to leave for a short holiday next week. The Rev. George Budd, superintendent of home missions for the Presbyterian Church, will occupy St. Andrew's pulpit during Mr. Harvey's absence. The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister for Public Works, and Mrs. Coates, who have been staying a£ the Grand Hotel for the last few days, left by this morning's train for Dargaville, where they will spend the New Year. This afternoon the Prime Minister the Hon. W. F. Massey, declared open the new recreation park and tennis courts at Mangere. To-morrow he will lay the foundation stone of the new Presbyterian Church at Papatoetoe. Mr. Herbert Jones, inspector of the relief department of the Hospital Board, leaves early in the New Year for a trip to Rotorua. The past year has been a most strenuous one in connection with relief work, and Mr. Jones is feeling the strain of his arduous duties. Archbishop (yshea, of Wellington, was a pasenger by the Maunganui, which arrived at Wellington from San Francisco yesterday. He left Wellington in March last, and since then hae visited the United States, England, Rome, France, Germany, and Ireland. He was accompanied on the Maunganui by Archbishop Duhig, of Brisbane, and Monsignor Byrne, Vicar-General of Brisbane. Mr. A. W. P. Hewitt, postmaster at Hawera, is retiring from the service at the end of the year, having completed his period of service of forty years. Mr. Hewitt leaves Hawera almost immediately and embarks in farming life at Piriaka, Taumarunui district, where he has taken up land. The position vacated will be filled by Mr. O'Gorman, postmaster at Woodvilie. Mr. L. C. Woolcott, chief representative in Melbourne of the literary department of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph," is in Auckland renewing acquaintances after an absence of 26 years. Mr. Woolcott was a member of the staff of 'The Bell," which had a brief but chequered career as a daily evening paper in Auckland. He was afterwards on the Wellington "Post" before proceeding to Australia eighteen years ago. He is at present on three months' leave of absence from his paper, following on a breakdown in health. Mr. Woolcott is staying at Deyonport, and will be for a fortnight in Auckland before visiting Rotorua, Wellington, and the South Island.