PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 11

PERSONAL.

Mr. Spencer Harper, of Melbourne, is staying at the' Grand Hotel. Mr. Allen Isell, M.P., returned to Kaltaia yesterday. Mr." and Mrs. W. B. Telford, of Waiwera South, left by the Tofua to-day on a visit to the Islands. i Mr. J. M. Goodwin arrived back from Rotorua yesterday, and this morning left by the Tofua" for Suva. I The appointment of Mr. P. E. de j Bathe Brandon as Hansard supervisor is gazetted, the appointment to date 'from December 20, 1922. ! The Prime Minister, Mr. W. F. Mas- | soy, and Mrs. Massey, returned to Wellington by last night's Main Trunk ! express. I The Hon. W. Downie Stewart, Minj ister of Internal Affairs, who accom- ! panied the Prime Minister to Auckland, j left for Wellington last evening. i Dr. Rose-Innes, of Christchurch, -who i arrived in the city this morning, is at i the Central Hotel. Mr. J. Hay. of Mel- | bourne, is also a visitor to the Central i Hotel. J Sir Harry Lauder, who is due in ! Auckland next week, lias accepted the i Mayor's invitation to be present at j the luncheon to be given to the King's ', Empire Veterans on June 4 in celebraj tion of the King's birthday. j Mr. W. A. Cadbury, principal director lof the- British firm of Cadburys and I Frys Ltd., arrived at Auckland by this morning's express from Wellington, and is staying for the week-end at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Cadbury and daughter i accompany him. It i 3 their intention 1. to visit Rotorua, leaving Auckland on 'j' Monday. i The following members of the Auck- ■ land branch of the New Zealand Dental ', Association left last night to attend the r i annual conference to be held in Christ•j church during next week: Messrs. W. R. . Revburn, C. H. Moses, G. L. Taylor, H. C. "Gleeson, J. N. Rishworth, H. P. R. J; Foster. R. F. Johnston, R. E. Bridgman, j P. Boyd, J. G. H. Mackay, A. H. Cran- ','. well, R. J- King, and Drs. F. C. Tibbs ; !and J. Y. Warren. '! Captain Aldhelm-White, recently of the Royal North-West Mounted Police (Canada), who has been on a visit to friends in Dunedin, will lep™. for Christchurch in a few days to assume duties as an officer in the Forestry Service. Captain Aldhelm-White. after serving as an officer with the Canadian forces in the Great War, joined the Mounted Police, and was on holiday leave in New Zealand when he was offered a [position in the Forestry Service. He j cabled his superior officer in Vancouver, i and was given extended leave, and the •! right to resign. Cantain AldhelmWhito has had five years' service with the Mounted Police. A graduate of Auckland University I College. Mr. Gerard Maskell. has Just J been appointed assistant to Professor I Kirk, professor of biology at Victoria ! University College, Wellington. . Mr. J Maskell 'is a son of Dr. Maskell, Symonds Street, and relinquished the) ' study of medicine to take up biology, especially zoology. He has taken the degrees of'B.A. and B.Sc, and has had ] a good education in languages and phyI sical and biological sciences. For some j time ho lias been conducting a research lon the structure and life history of the weta, a large insect very common around Auckland.