PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1923, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Richmond left tor Sydney by the Niagara this morning. Dr. VV. K. Carew, of Fiji, returned to his home by the Tofua this morning. Dr. C. B. Tudehope. who ha 3 been on a short holiday to Fiji, returned to Auckland by the Niagara. Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. Hellaby, of Auckland, left on the Tofua this morning on a visit to the Pacific Islands. Dr. Trilby King, Director of Child Welfare, arrived in Auckland this morning, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Bishop Azariah, of Dornakal, India, arrives in Auckland this afternoon from Hamilton. Sir K. Young, Chief Justice of Fiji, was a passenger by the Tofua, which Bailed for the Islands this morning. Mr. and Mrs. -T. Ringlanri, of Dunedin, wore included among T'ne passengers by tlie Niagara for Sydney this morning. Mr. H. E. Khacklock, of Dunedin, wh > lias been on k visit to Nortli Auckland, is staying over the week-end at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. S. Abraham, of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Palmerston North, and Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Monekton, of Oisborne, left by the Tofua to-day on the round trip to the Is'ande. Mr. Alfred S. Evans left by the Niagara for Sydney to-day. lie will take another vessel at Sydney and will J visit Java and the East, returning in a few months' time. Mr. K. rte 0. MarVitty, American Consul at Auckland, left fo*r Wellington ' Iby last night's Main Trunk express. He jis to leave by the Tahiti for the United ! States on Tuesday next. I Mr. and Mrs. F. Barker, of Oisbome, I ' sailed for Sydney by the Niagara this I morning. Mr. A. L. iluir, and Misa ! I Muir, also of Oiy'jome, were j/assengers jby the mail steamer for Sydney. I Mr. A. F. Hudson, manager at Auck- | land for the Southern Cross Assurance Co., Ltd., who has been promoted to the position of supervisor of the company's branches in Australia, left by the Niagara, to-day, accompanied by Mrs. Hudson.

Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, returned from Giaborne yesterday, where he has been presiding; at a Conciliation Council appointed to consider the shearers' dispute. He will leave for Xew Plymouth on Monday to deal with the hotel employees and restaurant workers' disputes. Mr. T. Bloodworth will leave for Wellington by the main trunk to-nrnrrnw evening to attend a sitting of tin- Arbitration Court. Mr. K. Phelan. secretary of the Auckland Timber Worker*' Cnimi. will proceed to Wellington by t!ie train to attend the annuai conference of timber workers, which opens there on Monday. Mr. C. A. Watts, secretary of the "Bootmakers , Cnion, will also go to Wellington to-morrow night :•• be present ar. a sitting of the Conciliation ( ouncil. which is to deal with the bootmakers" dispute. ■Word was received yesterday hy >.!r-. Howitt, of Stanley Bay, that her nepb-v , Professor Alexander Souter, M..\. (Oxon.), B.A. (Cant.), D.Litt. (Abvdeen i . Reprins Pr> "C"'i: a ilcrr, ■', ■• :i the University of Aberdeen, will ha rx the Doctor of Divinity degree conferred upon him at a graduation ceremony to le held on th- i.th July in the ancient! Univt-r.-i.ty ..: St. .•in.hres. The Sen.it'H I Academicua has decided to confer the up- | work in ftreek and Latin Palaeography in the East. ITe is rt •ogmaed as on- of the world's greatest authorities on Grotk standard work. Dr. Souter is still a comparatively young man.