PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 5, 6 January 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. Justice Herdman is at Rotorua. Mr. J. H. Stewart goes South by the Limited to-night. Mr. M. J. Moodabe, governing director of Amalgamated Theatres (N.Z.), Ltd., left for Gieborne to-day. Mr. Byron Brown has been appointed adjudicator for the Bendigo competitions and leaves for Australia early in May. The Rev. T. H. C. Partridge, who has been vicar at Papatoetoe for the past four years, has been appointed to St. Peter's, Onehunga. The Rev. C. R. Mitchell, of Melbourne, has accepted a call to the Wellington Unitarian Free Church, and is expected to arrive at Wellington on February 5. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walker, of Sydney, who have been staying at tho Grand Hotel, leave for Sydney by tho Wanganella this afternoon. Mr. Percy Brett, formerly of Auckland, and now of Orange, New South Wales, arrived by the Wanganella to-day on a holiday visit. He is accompanied by Mrs. Brett. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hordern, of Melbourne, arrived by the Wanganella this morning for a six weeks' holiday in NewZealand. Mr. Hordern intends to go trout fishing. Mr. W. Slaughter, officer in charge of unemployment in the Auckland Province, leaves on Monday for Tauranga on Unemployment Board business. He expects to return on Wednesday. Mr. W. E. Bush, of Brisbane, formerly Auckland city engineer, who, with Mrs. Bu6h, has been visiting Napier and Rotorua, has returned to Auckland. They are at Hotel Cargen. Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, is going to Wellington -by the Limited tonight to attend a meeting of the Local Government Loans Board. Mr. C. T. Parkinson, headmaster of King's School, Parramatta, N.S.AV., who has been staying with Mr. G. S. Shera, of Remuera, leaves for Australia by the Wanganella this afternoon. Mr. G. T. Wilson, district railway traffic manager, has gone away till February 3 on holidays. Mr. W. A. Woodger is acting in Mr. Wilson's absence and Mr. Geo. Reed is doing the latter's work as assistant traffic manager. Commodore C. A. Bartlett, a former marine superintendent of the White Star Line, accompanied by Mrs. Bartlett, is a round-voyage passenger on the Mataroa, which arrived at Wellington from London on Thursday. Mr. J. Findlay, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's representative in New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs. Findlay, have returned by the Mataroa -from England. They have been absent from the Dominion since last April. Dr. R. Asmis, German Consul for Australia and New Zealand, with his wife and family, arrived by the Wanganella from Sydney this morning and are staying at the Grand Hotel. They intend to make a motor tour of the Dominion. Commissioner J. Cunningham, commissioner for New Zealand of the Salvation Army, and Colonel A. Orsborn, secretary for New Zealand of the Salvation Army, came north by the Limited last night, leaving the train at Frankton. Dr. A. E. W. Hazel, K.C., principal of Jesus College, Oxford University, arrived at Wellington by the Mataroa from England On Thursday evening on a health recruiting trip. He is accompanied by the Rev. L. B. Cross, a fellow and chaplain of Jesus College, and Mrs. Cross. Mr. F. B. Stephens, lecturer in economics at the Auckland University College, leaves by the Wanganella for Sydney to-day, en route to London, to take a course at the London School of Economics. Mr. Stephens was awarded in May last a travelling fellowship for study in problems of municipal administration and intends to do personal research in Great Britain and Continental countries. He will probably return by way of U.S.A.'