PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL.

■ Mr. D. Cameron, chief reporter on the Hansard staff, is on a visit to Auckland. Mr. E. Strain, of Dunedin, and Mr. E. Jones, of Wellington, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Moltzcr, of Sweden, have returned to Auckland after touring New -Zealand, and are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. A. F. Lowe. C.M.G., Clerk of Parliaments, and Mrs. Lowe, are leaving for England on a holiday trip by the Athenic.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Allan, of Nelson, Mr. .T. C. Cameron, of Dunedin, and Mr. Keith Thompson, of Melbourne, are at the Central Hotel.

Dr. F. Gordon Bell, who lias accepted an appointment as Professor of Surgery at Otago University, is a passenger by tho lonic, which is due to arrive from England about the middle of the month.

Professor Algie, chairman of the University Professorial Board, returns to Auckland to-morrow morning after a holiday, visit to the South Island, which included the Cold Lake/ and Mount Cook.

Mr. E. Ardell, of the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, Mr. S. ]•'. Denton, of Dunedin,, and Messrs. (I. A. Somerville, T. V. Southward and T. Brandcin. of Wcllinn-ton, are at the Royal Hotel.

Captain Hugo, inspector of lire brigades in New Zealand, has been unanimously elected a full member of the Institute of Fire Engineers recently inaugurated in Great Britain. He is the first official in the Dominion to receive this important appointment.

Mr. J. S. Muir, a Waitnki High School Old Boy, and son of Mr. Stanley Muir, of Gisborne, has been awarded a Government agricultural scholarship at Ruakura State Farm. He gained the highest aggregate marks for New Zealand.

Mr. A. F. Grant, until recently commercial agent and general inspector uf the New Zealand Railways, has retired after 40 years' service." During his long term of office be held important appointments at Christchurch, Auckland aud Ohakune, and intends to take up his residence in Christchni *h. He lias been appointed Mr. P. K. Climic's assistant as secretary of the (antci bury j Progress I.oaguc. and secr-tary .-I' tbe j Canterbury L'linmlier "' Commerce,