PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 202, 27 August 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Dr H. Annett, of Matangi, is at the Grand Hotel.

Senior-Sergeant Pender, of the Kilbirnie police station, Wellington, has been transferred to Napier.

Professor H. Belehaw left for Wellington last evening.

Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp left last evening for Wellington. Tr? 6 : 9S*, ** V - F - M: Molyneux, Bishop of Melanesia, left for Wellington last .evening.

Mr. J. H. Barker, managing director m Australia and New Zealand for the Western Electric Company, left for Wellington last evening. _ Captain H. S. Hilton, Dominion superintendent for Canadian National Steamships, is at the Grand Hotel. He will leave for Sydney by the Monowai on Saturday.

i *?* * T .\ B> aark ' dePuty-6uperinten-dent of the Wellington fire brigade, has been elected an associate member of the Institution of Eire Engineers of Great Britain.

The Rev. H. R. Jecks, of • Auckland, who, with his family, is visiting Great Britain, expects to leave about September 26, and will arrive in New Zealand early in November.

Messrs. R. D. Matthews, E. Glendinmng Cowell, and D. G. Commons returned to Auckland by the Limited express this morning after attending the Building Societies' Conference in Wellington.

The Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, left for Wellington last evening to give evidence on behalf of the North Island Motor Union before the Parliamentary Select Committee on-highways finance. He will return to-morrow morning. Wing-Commander A. Coningham, D.5.0., M.C., D.F.C., A.F.C., RA.F.; whose promotion is announced, has received orders to leave England and take command in the Sudan. WingCommander Coningham is the eldest son on Mrs. A. Stamford, of Auckland.

Dr. C. H. Cunningham, of the research station at Palmereton North, who has been investigating disease among the Auckland strawberry heds, left this morning for Te Kauwhata, where he met the local fruitgrowers. He will join the Main Trunk train this evening and return to Palmerston North.

Br. E. C. Lindsay, C.8.E., F.E.C.S., who performed the operation for appendicitis on H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, is a New Zealander by birth. He was educated at the Southland Boys' High School, Invercargill, where his father, the Rev. George Lindsay, was minister of St. Paul's Church. He entered Otago University with a Junior Scholarship, and later went Home to complete his medical studies.