PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. M. McCurdy, of Seattle, is at Hotel Stonehurst.

Captain J. Glegg, of India, is at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. P. Fraser, of London, is at Hotel Cargen.

Mr. J. W. Mawson, Director of Town Planning, is visiting Auckland.

Mr. 0. Somers, of Leipzig, and Mr. M. Spira, of Antwerp, are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. W. G. Wohlmann, • Commissioner of Police, left for Wellington last evening after a short visit to Auckland.

Mr. H. Stringer, Wellington representative of tT. C. Williamson, Ltd., is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. P. W. Furby, senior officer at the Wellington post office, lias been appointed to succeed Mr. A. Shelton as chief postmaster at Palmerston Norfh.

' Mr. and Mrs. W. Hendry, of Welling-

« / Ul 5 ;on, who have been spending the Easter holidays with friends in Auckland, will leave by the Aorangi to-day for Fiji.

Mr. G. Finn and Mri O. Mcßrine, members of the Board, left foi 1 Wellington last evening to attend a meeting of the board.

Mr. H. M. Marler left by the Aorangi to-day on a trip to England and the Continent, accompanied by his son, Mr. G. C. Marler.

Mr. D. M. Mcintosh, late postmaster at Hastings, succeeds Mr. B. E. S. Brodie (retired) as chief postmaster at Napier.

Mr. J. Cunningham, Commissioner of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, returned to Wellington last e/ening after a short visit to Auckland.

Mr. A. S. Warner, postmaster at Whakatane, has been transferred to Feilding, and Mr. J. C. Connell, laic postmaster at Carterton; has been transferred to Danneyirke.

Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, and Mr. J. McCarroll, chairman of the Kaipara Hospital Board, left for Wellington last evening to attend a meeting of the executive of the Hospital Boards' Association.

Mr. E. A. Reid, who recently retired on superannuation from his position as Director of Agriculture for the Cook Islands, arrived at Wellington by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Reid, who holds the National Diploma of Horticulture, was sent on loan in 190S from the New Zealand Department of Agriculture to organise fruit inspection in the Cook Islands. In 1913 he was appointed first inspector and was appointed Director of Agriculture in 1926. He has also acted as Deputy Commissioner during the absence of the ■Resident Ojnmifision«- frmn- tha islands.