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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 10

PERSONAL.

The Prime Minister, the Eight Hon. G. W. Forbes, with his secretary, Mr. O. Jeffery, and the Hon. R. Masters, M.L.G., Minister of Education, is at the Grand Hotel. 1 : {:■ S Mr. P. Jones, of Bristol, England, is at the Central Hotel. Mr. E. M. Kirseh, obNew York, is at the Grand Hotel. . Mr. H. Spry, of Melbourne, and Mr. J. Bixby, of Long Beach, California,'are at Hotel Cargen. .. Mr. N., T. Hall, of Melbourne, and Mr. C. Wi Stoate, of Perthj West Australia, are at the Central Hotel. Sir James Gunson, member of the Railways Board, has returned to Auckland from the South. Colonel E. R. Smith, of Dunedin, left for Russell this morning. Mr. Hugh Wright, jun., of Auckland, has joined the London firm of Austin Reed. \_ o • Mr. N. A. Thomspn, of the staff of the. National Mortgage and Agency Co., Dunedin, has been appointed to a position on the staff of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Co. ; Mr. A. D. Yarian, engineer-commander, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, is retiring on superannuation after 11 years' service as inspector of machinery under the Marine Department, Christchurch. Mr. E. H. Nepia, a Training College student, who if leaving 7 the city to take up teaching under the Native School Department in the Gisborne-.dietrict, was farewelled at a meeting of the Akarana Maori Association. Messrs. J. Rukutai* chairman, and W. Paoro eulogised the work done by Mr. Nepia as examiner for the association, and also as lecturer in connection with the anthropological section of the Auckland Institute. Professor O. Savini, who has been conductor for the Christchurch Orchestral. Society's orchestra for the past three years, has been appointed conductor of the orchestra of the. Maharajah of Mysore. He will leave for India next month. Professor Savini ■was born in Florence, where he took out his degrees. His three-act comic opera, "Oro Che Vola" ("Flying GGold") won the prize awarded-for. such work in Milan in 1926.