PEFSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 117, 19 May 1924, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. N. Rowlins leaves for the Islands this evening. Rev. O. M. Doyle, of Remuera, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mr. Barry Coney is attending the Music Teachers* Conference in Wellington. Mr. H. de Costa arrived from Gisborne this morning, and is at the Star Hotel. Mr. J. Hislop, Undersecretary for Internal Affairs, returns to Wellington by the express to-night. Bishop Averill, who is at present visiting the King Country, expects to return to Auckland in about a fortnight. Mr. Jf. Hawkins,. inspector of prisons, is at present in Auckland. He will leave for Wellington by to-morrow . night's -express. Mr. R. G. Sellar, of Auckland, returned on Saturday after a five weeks' motor • car trip. Mr. Sellar travelled as far i South as Dunedin. Major-General C. W. Melvill, general • officer commanding the N.Z. Military ' Forces, was a passenger by the Main Trunk express last night. • Mr. J. W. Woodbury, stationmaster ' at Christchurch. will retire on super- . animation on June 1, after 40 years' ■ service with the Railway Department. The week-end arrivals at the Grand • Hotel include Messrs. J. H. Mills, H. W. Thompson, H. Moss (Wellington), J. I Dunlop (Dunedin), and K. Richardson (Napier). ; Messrs. P. Duncan, of Christchurch, G. . Toogood, of Wellington, C. Martell, of 5 Paris, H. J. Harford, of Nelson, G. Halfe and G. E. P. Smith, of Whangarei, are visitors at the Star Hotel. 1 Mr. J. P. Kalaugher, Supervisor of '. Manual and Technical Education to the , Auckland Education Board, left last ' evening to attend the Technical Educo- " tion Conference at Wellington. Professor J. Macmillan Brown leaves Wellington for San Francisco, by the Maunganui on the 27th inst. He will travel through British Columbia to Alaska, returning to the Dominion in October. y Mr. H. S. W. King leaves for Wel-;-(lington to-night to attend the Technical 'j Education Conference as the representative of the Auckland Education Board, the Board of Managers of the Seddon Memorial College, and the Elam School of Art Board of Managers. c Besides Professor Peren, the newly- " appointed holder of the Cliair of Agri--1 culture, there will sail by the Athenic ! the newly-appointed assistant actuary 1 for the Xew Zealand Insurance Departl ment. Mr. George TV. Melville. Mr. Melville hails from Glasgow, that brecd--1 ing place of actuaries. It is safe to say -, that there is not a dominion in the Empire that does not contain quite a group of Glasgow-bred actuaries. 3 Mr. W. Crow, who has been a librarian ) in the New Zealand Government office in t London for a number of years, has . j retired from the service, greatly to the I regret of all those who have had occasion to make use of the High Commissioner's office. Mr. Crow's unfail- ', ing kindliness and helpfulness did much to render the task of inquirers at New ■; Zealand House a pleasant one, and his ! retirement from thn office is much regretted. Mr. and Mrs. Crow intend 1 during the summer to make an extensive ' tour of the Continent.