PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 304, 26 December 1933, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Rabbi S. Katz, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coatee, and Mrs. Coates are at the Grand Hotel. Sir Charles Clifford, of Christchurch. arrived in Auckland yesterday. Mr. H. G. R. Mason, M.P., left for Wellington by the Limited last evening. Mr. W. Wallace has been appointed a member of the Nurses and Midwives' Registration Board. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Little, of China, arrived by the Monowai yesterday. They are at Hotel Stonehurst. Commissioner J. Cunningham, of the Salvation Army, and Mrs. Cunningham go South by the Limited to-night. The Hon. C. J. Carrington and tha Hon. J. Trevethick, M.L.C.'s, returned to Auckland during the week-end. Mr. P. C. Minns, an old boy of Auckland Grammar School and' a former Rhodee scholar, is visiting relatives in Auckland. Mr. Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Employers' Association, returned from Australia by the Monowai yesterday. The Rev. H. K. Vickery, chaplain of the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, leaves to-day for Picton to attend a conference of Toe H. The Rev. R. Macd'onald, formerly of Te Kopuru, returned by the Monowni yesterday from a nine months' visit to Europe and Palestine. Mr. C. J. Lovegrove and Mrs. Lovegrove are leaving by the Aorangi to-day for Sydney. They expect to be absent until the end of January next. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. S. McArthur, of Auckland, left for Norfolk Island in. their yacht Morewa this morning. They are due back in a fortnight's time. The Rt. Hon. W. A. Watt, a former Premier of Victoria, and also at onetime acting-Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, arrived by the Monowai yesterday. Mr. Watt, who is accompanied by the Hon. J. A. Boyd, is on holiday and will visit New Zealand's scenic resorts, after which he will return to Australia by the Monowai on January 12. Mr. Watt had a strenuous career in Australian public life from 1897 to 1929, and retired in the latter year to devote himself to private business affairs. He entered the Victorian Parliament in 1897 as Nationalist member for Melbourne East. He became Postmaster-General in 1899, State Treasurer ins 1909, and was Premier from 1912 to 1914. In 1914 he entered the Federal Parliament as member for Balaclava and held the portfolio of Works and Railways. For a period he was Federal Treasurer and, in 1918-19, while Mr. W. M. Hughes was in Europe, acted ae Commonwealth Prime Minister. From 1923 to 1926 he was Speaker of the House of Representatives.