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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 65, 18 March 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Hicks left by the Aorangi yesterday, on their return trip to England. Mr. E. J. Prendergast has left for Wellington to attend the Court of Appeal. Messrs. A. W. Donald, Eliot Davis, E. J. Prendergast, and the Hon. G. J. Garland, M.L.C., were passengers by the Main Trunk express last evening. Bishop Cleary attended the St. Patrick's concert in the Town Hall last J evening. He was accorded a great reception. Messrs. A. B. Thomson, F. Bakewell nnd T. Brodie, Wellington, and W. L. Spackman, ZSTapier, are at the Central Hotel. Mr. F. Hampleman, borough engineer at Onehunga, has tendered his resignation to take up a similar position elsewhere. Grand Hotel guests include Messrs. H. D. Raphael (Wellington) V. X Hamilton (Christchurch), J. A. Peek (Sydney) and H. C. Murray (Wellington). Messrs. H. J. Court, G. M. Fowlds, J. S. Milne and J. R. Rendall left last evening for Palmerston North, whero they will attend the drapers' conference. Dr. E. Marsden. Assistant-Director of Education, who has been on a trip abroad, returned to Wellington by the Tahiti yesterday. Recent arrivals at the Star Hotel are Messrs. R. R. Faulser, England, J. Garton, Christchurch, Kilmortin and C. Taylor, Wellington, J. Watkins and C. B. Bridges, Kakapi. Mr. F. C. Wilson, the popular stationmaster at Greenlane, has been appointed stationmaster at Levin. . He is succeded by Mr. L. S. Dickson, transferred from Mount Eden. Lieutenant G. F. Cater, owing to ill-health, lias been granted three months' leave of absence from the band of the Auckland Artillery. Mr. C. H. Hayes, the champion cornetist,has been appointed deputy conductor. Among the Grand Lodge delegates to the session now being held at Whangarei, is Mr. G. S. Moody, Mayor of Opotiki, and Grand Lodge representative of the Bay of Plenty to the 1.0.0. F., New; Zealand. Lieutenant W. R- Marshall has been lent to the New Zealand Navy for a period of tlxree years. Until recently serving in the destroyer Wessex, thie officer was promoted on August 15 last, and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet at Osborne in January, 191(5. He served as a midshipman in the cruiser Lowestoft at the Cape. Mr. Gilbert S. Lynde, of London, who has been appointed to *the position of chief mechanical engineer of the New Zealand Government Railways in succession to Mr. E. E. Gillon, was formerly manager of the Superheater Corporation . Company. He was to have left for New ! Zealand by the Ruahine early in March. Dr. C. E. Maguire, medical superintendent of the Auckland City Hospital, was bid bon voyage by the Hospital Board last evening on the eve of his departure for England. During his tour he will collect information regarding the latest methods of treating cancer, infantile paralysis, tuberculosis, and infectious diseases). He was authorised to engage a pathologist for the hospital. c Mr. David Goldie has resigned his I posi.tion of chairman of the Auckland . Harbour Board Sinking Fund Commissioners, after holding the office since 0 .1907. During , his term, Mr. Goldie was a present at all meetings with the excep--1 tion of three. At yesterday's meeting c of the board it was decided to send i Mr. Goldie a letter of appreciation Sir 1 James Gunson was elected to the r vacancy.