PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 254, 26 October 1932, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. G. Williams, irianager of General Motors Acceptance Corporation, arrived in Auckland from Wellington this morning. Mr. Alexander Milliken was to-day admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Herdman, on the motion of Mr. T. N. Baxter.

Mr. .J. E. Laming, senior Main Trunk guard, has been promoted to relief foreman and has been transferred to tho South Island.

Mr. J. R. Henrys, handlcapper to the Canterbury Jockey Club ahd other racing clubs, who has been on a visit to Wellington, returned to Auckland this morning.

Mr. M. H. Wynyard, motorists' representative on the Main Highways Board, leaves for Wellington by the Limited this evening. He will return to Auckland on Friday morning,

Sir Alison Russell, a former Chief Justice of Tanganyika Territory, who has been spending a holiday in New Zealand, returned to Auckland from Wellington this morning, and leaves to-morrow by the Remuera for England. He is at the Grand Hotel.

The Rev. W. J. Elliott, superintendent of the Gisborne Methodist circuit, and a former president of the Methodist Conference, will retire from active ministry next March. He Will then have completed 40 years in the ministry and •30 years ill the service of the Methodist Church.

Mr. P. B. Foote, of Otago, was elected the first life member at the conference of the newly constituted Real Estate Institute of New Zealand held in Auck* land this morning. Eulogistic references were made to the fine work Mr. I'oote had accomplished for the Real Kstate Institute by the chairman, Mr. Douglas M. Spedding, and several other delegates.