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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 129, 2 June 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL.

I —— . Sir Joseph Ward, M.P., left by t_B Marama on a trip to Sydney. Mr. J. McC. Dickson, M.P., hag. been 'elected chairman of the Otago H_r_o_r ; Board. j 'Mr. George A. Troupe (Wellington) lis on a visit to Auckland. He is at tha I Hotel Cargen. Grand Hotel guests include Mr. J. Ball (Hunter ville), Mr. H. Campbell i (Hastings), and Mr. and Mrs. W. X. Heaton (Leeds, England). Staving at the Central Hotel are .Mr. R J." McQuade (Xew Plymouth), Mr. E. Andrews (Otakeho). Mr. S. HaR (Paimerston North), Mr. J. Bank* (Waikino). Mr. and Mrs. E. Hanlon I (Napier). Mr. E. J. Davidson (Pukeikuia) ! Mr. E. N. Smith (Te Teko), Mr. S. | Hendry (Whakatane), Mr. R S. 'Thompson (Wanganui). Mr. and Mrs. !j. Wellwood (Hastings), Mr. and Mrs. '•R. Hammond (Cambridge), Mr. W. iVosper (Cambridge). Mr. R. Hamilton i (Whangarei), Mr. B. Slabben (Tauj ranga), are at the Star Hotel. I To investigate grassland problems j and the seed production of white clover in New South Wales and New Zealand, .Professor G. Stapleton. M.A., director iof the Welsh Plant-Breeding Station, I Agricultural Department of the Ln> versify College of Wales. Aberystwyth, j has sailed from Liverpool on thi j Aeneas, accompanied by his wife. ! Mr. W. E. Kirby (manager) an* i Messrs. W. Johnston and E. J. Meßrearty, of the local office of the Paramount Picture Company, leave to-night to join the Ulimaroa at Wellington 08 Friday. They will attend the Paramount Convention at Sydney, with dele* gates from the Commonwealth and t_| Far East. Among the guests staying at th« Hotel Careen are Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Turtotte Mr. A. Brown (Rotoma), Mr. F. P. Silver (Wellington) Mr. and Mrs. H. Carew (Rotorua), Mr. 'and Mrs. W. H Gainsford (Bannevirke), Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Armstrong (Te Awamutu). Mr. R. Mitchell, Mr. &• Sutherland (Wanganui), and Mr. and Mrs. R McDougal] (Masterton). 1 Mr. A. J. Harrop. of Caius College, Cambridge, and formerly of Canterbury College, New Zealand, has been awarded the Ph.D. degree. The subject of his thesis was: "The Relations of Engknd and New Zealand From the Earliest Time to the Eve of the Maori and his work casis new light on tne history of the Xew Zealand Company and the French and German project* for colonising New Zealand. Thel *ww will be published in the near future. Mr. Harrop is now on the literary stan of the ""Daily Mail."' 1 •