PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 43, 22 February 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mi: YV. D. Pike lias been appointed a member of the Board of Agriculture Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Brewis have returned to Hamilton, after a live months' tour of the East. Sir John Luke. M.P., is a member of the parliamentary party now tourin.. Southland. Mr. Gilford Marshall. Crown Prosecutor of Wanganui, is visiting Auckland and is staying at Cargen. Professor and Mrs. A. E. Paterson and Mr. K. Simpson, of Sydney, are stavin" at Sloneluirst. Lieut-Colonel J. H. Moir, Otago Re"iment. has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Force's decoration. Mr. T. .1. Greeves (Belfast! is staying at Stonehurst. He is accompanied by his son. Mr. R. G. .1. Greeves. Captain A. (.'. Boceard will be a passenger for Sydney hy the Ulimaroa this afternoon. Mr. .1. M. Hickson. of the Spiritual Healing Mission, left Auckland for YVaitomo this morning. Captain M. Mackenzie, of Sydney, arrived from Wellington this mornin" and is staying at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. Godsall, of Sydney, who have been visiting Russell, returned to Auckland this morning. They are at the Grand Hotel. Messrs. G. L. Murray (Sydney). R. G. Phillips (Christchurch l and 'C. S. Barber (Melbourne) are staying at the Grand Air. A. M. H. Shirtcliff has been appointed general manager of the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association (Timaru), Mr. J. P. Newman retiredSir Phillip Proctor, of England, who lias been visiting the Dominion for some months, leaves for Sydney by the Ulimaroa to-day. Messrs. ('. Cargil'. (Wellington!. P Reid (Dunedin), and YV. J. Knight (Whangarcij are staving at the Star Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. John Broady and Miss Ida Broady. of Northcote. have returned from a trip to the Old Country extending over twelve months. A vote of condolence to Captain P. Tliect. chairman of the Waitemata, County Council, on the death of Itl== wife, was passed at a public meetiiu at Riverhead on Wednesday night. Mr. A. Couk, of One Tree Hill, leaves to-day by the Ulimaroa on a three months' visit to Australia. He will be accompanied by his wife and their daughter. Mr. F. M. ( ox. secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, left for the South last evening to attend a meeting of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. The Karl and Countess of Harrowbv and Lady Frances Ryder left Auckland last night by the Main Trunk express for Wellington, where they will join the Marama. which sails for Sydney tomorrow evening. Air. and Mrs. G. A. Martin, of San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. L. Hartmann. of Melbourne. Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. McMillan, of Victoria, and Mr. and Mrs. T. 1). Roche, of Sydney, are among the guests staying at the ((rand Hotel. Mr. -I. Anderson, exploitation manager for the Fox Film Corporation, is ot present in Wellington. He will take charge of exploitation and advertising for Fox films under the direction of Mr. A. McGowan. New Zealand manager. Mr. and .Airs. -I. E. Laity (Melbourne!, Air. and Mrs. )•'. M. Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. H. St.iefvater (Sydney). Mr. and Mrs. C. X. Hannaford I Campbell town, N.S.W. I. and Air. and Mrs. Alexander D. Drybnrgh (London i. are among the guests staying at Stonehurst. Mr. K. A. Shrimpton. of Wellington, returned to Auckland, from the North yesterday. In company with Captain Whiteford, of tbe Marine Department, Mr. Shrimpton has been carrying out experiments in wireless direction giving from Cape Maria Van Diemen. Sergt.-Major Gentles (late X.Z.R.A.L of Wellington, is on a brief visit to Auckland. Mr. Gentles, who is an old Thames resident, attended the amalgamation of the two lodges of Ud-'.fellows, at Thames, on the 18th inst. He is one of the oldest members of the brotherhood, having joined the Loyal Waikato Lodge over ."SO years ago. Mr. R. Gillies, superintending engineer of the Union Steamship Company at Wellington, who. with bis wife and two children, has been on a trip to Australia, returned by the Marama on Tuesday. Mr. D. (Jillies. superintending engineer for tbe I.S.S. Company at Sydney, also arrived by the same steamer on a visit to New Zealand. Mr. Ove Lunn, Consul-General for Denmark in Australasia, is at. present on an official visit to New Zealand, and is staying at the lira ml Hotei. Mr. Lunn. whose headquarters are at Melbourne, is visiting the Dominion for the purpose of calling on the vice-consuls for his country and to make certain appointments in Wellington and Christcourrh. Mr. Lunn will remain in New Zealand some weeks before returning to Australia. General Bramwell Booth, chief of the Salvation Army, is at present en route to Australia. He will arrive at Dunedin about April 20. He will conduct congresses in that city. Christ church. Wellington and Auckland, where lie is due on May 10. General Booth is accompanied by bis son. Ensign Wycliffe Booth. Commissioner H. W. Mapp. the Army's international secretary for thft Dominions and India, and Major J. Smith, his private secretary. Mr. P. A. Fildes, A.lnst.M.E.. engineer in charge of the Scaffolding and Lifts Act. Department of Public Works. Sydney, arrived from Sydney by tbe .Marama this week, having "been detailed by the New South Wales Government to gain an insight into the administration and working of the Dominion's machinery legislation. Mr. Fildes is an erstwhile resident of Wellington, serving las apprenticeship with Messrs. S. Luke and Sons, and for a period In- was a marine engineer witli the Union Steamship Company, and prior to taking up bis appointment with the New South Wales Government was in business in Dunedin as an electrical engineer. Mr. Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland l-'mployers' Association, accompanied by bis" wife, arrived at Wellington by the Napier express on Tuesday. Tliey motored Irom Te Kuiti. through il.'e Mokan district. New Plymouth, and Wanganui te Ashhurst. where, owing to an obstruction on Paekakariki Hill, they caught the express for Wellington. They are visiting Wellington to say good-bye to their friends, beforp leaving Auckland by the Makura on April lo for a Iwehe months' \ isil to Kngland. They will join the Maicsti'' at Nrw York 'on limp 'Jl. While in Kngland Mr. Spencer intends to look into law settlement and immigration matters so far a? they cfiV-er the Dominion. Mr. and Mr?. Spoaeor will \ ..-it the British Empire Exhibition..