PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 9, 11 January 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. Harvey Turner left for Wellington last evening. The Rev. W. Gatman, Methodist minister at Birkenhead, is on holiday on the Great Barrier Island. Mr. A. C. Mitchell, president of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, who has been - visiting Auckland on business, left for the South by the Limited last evening. Mr. G. J. Sceats, M.A., who has been at the Mount Albert Grammar School since 1930, leaves on Saturday to take up a position on the staff of the Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru. Mr. K. R. Lambie, of Wellington, has been appointed at the Birkenhead School, to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. E. B. Hillam to the Northcote School. Professor F. P. Worley, of the Auckland University College staff, who has been on a year's leave of absence, is returning by the Ruahine, due at Auckland from Liverpool on February 2. Mr. W. Slaughter, officer in charge of unemployment in Auckland, returned last evening from Tauranga, where lie has been conferring with Mr. .7. S. Jessep, deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board. The Rev. H. L. R. Islierwood, of the Bay of Islands, is temporarily in charge of * the Northcote parish during the absence of the vicar, the Rev. F. W. Wilkes, who is in the Bay of Islands district for the holiday period. Mr. W. Penseler, Consul for Germany in New Zealand and Samoa, will leave Wellington by the Monowai on Friday, en route for Brisbane, whence he will proceed in the German cruiser Karlsruhe on an official visit to Samoa. Mr. Penseler is expected to be back in Wellington by the end o: February. Mr. F. 11. Stewart, Federal Minister of Commerce, who is to leave Australia at the end of this month, at the invitation of the New Zealand Government, to attend the celebrations associated with the anniversary of the Waitangi Treaty at the Bay of Islands and to confer with the Dominion Government on trade matters, was for 20 years an administrative officer of the New South Wales Railways. He was founder and governing director of Metropolitan Omnibus Co., Ltd., Australian National Airways, Ltd., and New South Wales Woollen and Felt Mills, and a director of Associated Newspapers, Ltd. He is also founder and governing director of 2CH, Sydney. He was elected Federal member for Parramatta in December, 1931, and since October, 1932, has been Minister of Commerce. Mr. Stewart is a well-known philanthropist, and charitable and church organisations have much to thank him for.