PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 135, 10 June 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. J. Tunks left for Wellington last evening. Mr. S. S. Dean, who has been visiting Auckland, returned to Wellington last evening. Mr. D. Acland (Canterbury), and Mr. M. W. Higginson (Wellington) are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. E. A. Shrimpton, chief telegraph engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department, is at the Royal Hotel. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who has been the guest of his son, Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, left for Wellington last evening. Mr. R. P. Ward, Under-Secretary of the Department of Justice, is on a visit to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. O'Sullivan (Dunedin), who have been at the Esplanade Hotel, Devonport, left by the express last evening. Mr. J. M. Adam, clerk and registrar of the Court at New Plymouth, will succeed Mr. J. C. Maliroy as clerk and registrar at Hamilton. Mr. Malfroy, who was transferred a few weeks agr> from becomes clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Auckland.

Recent arrivals at the Star Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. M. Pettit (Adelaide), Mr. and Mrs. Innes Kehoe (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. McCallum (Hamilton), and Messrs. T. J. Thompson (Christchurch). B. Dyson and C. F. Brown (Wellington). Mr. Arthur Winter, a director of •James Buchanan and Co. LM., London, is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Winter is a keen follower of horse racing, and timed his visit to Auckland to attend the meeting at Ellerslie. He has made an extensive tour of the Dominion, having visited Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier and Gisborne, the tour through the North Island having been accomplished by car. He is greatly impressed by the vast resources of New Zealand, and the w-on. derful prospects which await the right type of settler. Upon returning to England, he intends to make the possibilities of the Dominion more widely known, and is also arranging for a further and more extended visit.