PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 221, 19 September 1927, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr. D. Rogers, of Melbourne, is at the Commercial Hotel.

Mr. C. E. Goosman has been appointed to the position of handicapper to the Otahuhu Trotting Club.

Mr. Wm. Jones, M.P. for Marsden, will leave by this evening's express for Wellington.

Mr. G. W. North (Wanganui) and Mr. J. McKinley (Wellington) are at the Albert Hotel.

Mr. R. M. Hoyes, managing director of Hoyes Motors, Ltd., has left for Rotorfia to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Motor Trade Association.

Major T. Wilkes, Director of Aviation who has been visiting Auckland on business connected with the Imperial Airships Mission, left for Wellington by last night's train.

Star Hotel guests include: Mr. J. F Bruce (Wellington), Mr. J. R. Cole (Wellington), Mr. F. B. Dunn (New Plymouth), Mr. R. Cook (Dunedin), and Mr P- T. Harris (Christchurch).

Among those at the Central Hotel areMr. and Sirs. T. H. Grocott (Hamilton), Mr. L. Feist, Mr. L. M. Keates (Whanearei), Mr. A. E. Surrey (New Plymouth), Mr. J. W. Cobun (Christchurch). Barter has been rejected employees' representative on the board of managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, by a meeting of combined employees' unions.

Captain E. C. Vellenoweth, Government resident agent at Aitutaki, Cook Islands, is in Auckland on a brief visit. He returns to Aitutaki by the Waipahi next week.

Mr. J. McXamara, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, arrived from Wellington by the Limited this morning on a two days' departmental trip to Auckland.

The Right Hon. Edward Shortt, K.C., Bntish Secretary of State for Home Affairs, who is in New Zealand to inspect ? ,"T ra P un ? hydro-electric works on behalf of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company, left last night for Wellington, where he will stay for about two weeks. He will probably return to Auckland before leaving New Zealand. Mr. F. Zachariah, accountant of the Auckland branch of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, has been promoted to the head office of the Association for New Zealand in Wel--1 vt° n V, He w . ill take over tile position of Mr. H. E. Biden, resident secretary to ~e Association, who i 3 bedn* transferred to Sydney.