PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. T. Maingay, of Devonport, is visiting Palmerston North. Mr. A. Tyndall, engineer to the Main Highways Board, left for Wellington by train last evening. Dr. Martin Tweed, of Wellington, who has been spending a short holiday in Auckland, leaves for Wellington by car to-day. Major Stewart Fraser, representative of Kiley (Coventry), Ltd., has returned from the South, and is staying at Hotel Cargen. The Rev. E. C. Page, Methodist minister in Tonga for the past 26 years, and now on furlough, arrived by the Hauraki yesteray, en route to Sydney. Mr. A. E. Killworth, Australian and New Zealand representative of the Commercial Cable Company. London, arrived by the Wanganella onSaturday. Mr. P. C. Dewar, of St. Helier's, who is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Dewar, returned from a trip to England by the Aorangi this morning, and is etaying at Hotel Cargen. Sir Apirana Ngata, Minister of Native Affairs, who has been inspecting the preparations for the gathering at Waitangi next month, left for the South by train on Saturday. Mr. W. J. Marsh, civil engineer, who lias been on furlough in New Zealand for the past few months, left by the Wanganella on Saturday to return to Portuguese East Africa. Mr. J. H. Chapman, a New Zealander, on the secretariat of the League of Nations, who is on a two months' holiday in the Dominion, has arrived from Eotorua, and is staying at Hotel Stonehurst. The Rev. G. Harris, who is returning to Melbourne after a term of eight years as Methodist minister in Tonga, arrived by the Hauraki yesterday. He is accompanied by Mrs. Harris and their four children. Commissioner J. Cunningham, Commissioner for New Zealand of the Salvation Army, and Colonel A. Orsborn, secretary for New Zealand, join the Limited* at Frankton to-night to return to Wellington. The Rev. J. T. Holman arrived at Wellington by the Mataroa from London last week to tour the Dominion. Since the war he has been chaplain at the Hongkong Cathedral, and later chaplain to the British Legation at Peiping. Flying-Officer H. L. Piper, of Christchurch, who made a flight from England to Australia in 1930 in company with Flying-Officer C. E. Kay, of Auckland, has retired from the Air Force on the expiry of his short service commission. He has now been appointed assistant-instructor to the Gravesend school of flying in England."