PERSONAL.
Mr. R. G. Mexted, of Wellington, is at Hotel Stonehurst. The Hon. A. J. Murdoch, Minister of Agriculture, is at the Star Hotel. Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, has received official notification of his appointment as r. member of the Nurses and Mid wives' Registration Board. Mr. H. B. Burdekin, deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board, and Mr. G. Finn and Mr. 0. Mcßrine, members of the board, left for Wellington last -.veiling to aiu-rd a meeting of tl;j board to-day. Mr. Thomas Vaughan, of Masterton, has had conferred oil him a fellowship degree of the Trinity College of Music, London, as a result of the practical examinations conducted in November last. This is the highest musical honour which can be obtained in New Zealand.-^ Mr. George H. Munro, physicist at Melbourne University, is visiting his brother, Mr. C. C., Munro, of Waiuku. Mr. Munro left Auckland Uuiversity College five years ago to taKe up a position in- England, and he weat iater to Mc He has had wide experience in wirelest; research. Dr. and Mrs. J. Bartholomew, of San Francisco, are at present visiting Dr. Bartholomew's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Bartholomew, of Feilding. Dr. Bartholomew, who holds the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps, will return with Mrs. Bartholomew to San Francisco about March. Mr. R. Joughin, an old resident of the Waihi district, who was associated with the timber industry at Waitawheta, near Waikino, has returned after an absence of some two years abroad with Mrs. Joughin and their family. Before returning to New Zealand they toured England in' the same car which Mr. Joughin had purchased in America, and in which they had travelled over 30,000 miles in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Mr. Joughin is staying with friends at Waikino, but intends shortly to take up his in Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 4, 6 January 1931, Page 5
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