PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. Chas. Cabot arrived in Auckland yesterday. Captain D. McDougall, harbourmaster at Tiniaru, retires on superannuation this week. Mr. W. W. Meek, of Auckland, leaves by the Monowai this afternoon on a business trip to Sydney. Mr. Tau Ilenave, M.l*. for Northern Maori, arrived froru Wellington by the express this morning. Mr. H. H. Watkins, secretary-engineer to the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board, returned by the Limited this morning from Wellington. Mr. C. J. Tunks and Mr. F. E. Langstone are visiting Dargaville and Whangarei to inspect the local divisions of the St. John Ambulance. Mr. J. E. Kirk, New Zealand director of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Ltd., was a passenger for i Sydney by the Monowai to-day. Mr. G. B. Davis, Wellington manager for Burns, Pliilp and Company for the past 71 years, has resigned, and intends to make his home at Manurewa. Mr. J. Fuller arrived from the South by the Limited this morning and leaves for Sydney by the Mariposa to-morrow. He is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. George Seandrett, of Westport and Greymouth, are touring the North Island, and at present are staying with their son at Rocky Nook. Mr. W. Mcßri.de, Secretary for Native Affa rs in Samoa, arrived at Lyttelton with his family by the motor ship Maui Pomare on Monday to spend his furlough in New Zealand. Mr. W. J. Hoklsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, returned this morning from Wellington, where he has been attending a meeting of the Local Government Loans Board. Mr. W. J. Douglas, general manager for Fuller Theatres in Australia, is a through passenger from Los Angeles to •Sydney by the Mariposa, which is due at Auckland to-morrow morning. Mr. Hugh Walpole, the distinguished novelist and literary critic, expects next year to visit Auckland, where he was born in 1884. Ho was sent to England to be educated at the age of five. Mr. A. Kummerle, of the Emil Kummerle spinning mills, Brandenburg, Germany, who, with Mrs. Kummerle, has been tourinn' New Zealand, leaves for Sydney by the Monowai this afternoon. Mr. N. Ewart, chief cleric of the locomotive superintendent's office of New Zealand Railways, arrived from Wellington yesterday and visited the Otahuhu workshops. He leaves again for Wellington to-night. Mr. P. Harrison, president of the ~nl Lawn Tennis Association, with Mr. E. W. Griffiths and Mr. A. T. Turner, delegates to the quarterly meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, left for Wellington last evening. Mr. P. G. Pearce, of the Public Service Commissioner's office, has been appointed Under-Secretary of Native Affairs and Native Trustee in succession to Judge Jones, who resigned recently from those positions. Mr. Pearce will assume his new duties immediately.

Captain C. W. Burleigh, D.5.0., E.D., R.N.R., was a passenger by the motor ship Port Gisborne, which arrived at Dunedin on Sunday from London and Suva. Captain Burleigh was born at Christchurch, and is returning to his native land after an absence of 47 years. He served his apprenticeship to the sea in the New Zealand Shipping Company s sailino- ship Waimea and later was in the service of the P. and 0. Company for nianv years, bis last command being the Moldavia. He intends to reside in Canterbury.