PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. Justice Smith goes South by the Limited to-night. Dr. J. Hight has been re-elected rector of Canterbury College. Mr. W. H. Gummer returned this morning from Wellington. Colonel the Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., of Canterbury, arrived by the Limited tliis morning. Mr. H. P. Kidson will take up his duties as rector of the Otago Boys' High School next month. Mr. H. Butcher, of the Automobile Association council, returned from Wellington this morning. Mr. T. U. Wells, chairman of the Auckland Education Board, left for Wellington by the Limited last evening. Mr. 1\ Dennen, a member of the Birkenhead Borough Council, was last evening granted three months' leave of absence owing to ill-health. Mr. M. H. Wynyard, motorists' representative on the Main Highways Board, returned from the South this morning. He has been touring the South Island with the board. Dr. C. E. Beeby has accepted the position of acting-Professor of Philosophy at Canterbury College, and Mr. R. Winterbourn, M.A., has been appointed assistant-lecturer in philosophy. Mr. J. W. Beanland has been appointed to represent the Christchurch City Council at the annual health congress of the Eoval Sanitary Institute, to bo held at Bristol during July next. Mr. T. H. Easdown, manager of the Auckland branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, who has been at the head office of the National Bank in London, will return to New Zealand via Australia by the R.M.s. Orama, du« in Sydney on April 11. Mr. Edward E. Hirst, of Sydney, chairman and managing director of the British General Electric Company, Ltd;, in Australia and New Zealand, who has been visiting Auckland in the course of a business tour of the Dominion, leaves for Wellington by the Limited to-night, and sails for Sydney by the Mauuganui next Tuesday. The Commonwealth Minister of Commerce, the Hon. F. H. Stewart, arrived in Wellington to-day, accompanied by a number of technical officers, to commence his conversations with New Zealand Ministers. He will remain in Wellington until to-morrow night, when he will accompany the Prime Minister, the lit. Hon. G. W. Forbes, to Waitangi. Captain Murray Johnstone, of the British Phosphate Commission's ship Triona, which visits New Zealand once a year, is leaving the vessel in Auckland and proceeding by the Wanganella to the commission's head office in Melbourne, where lie will take charge of marine work for a period. Captain Rhodes, of the Nauru Chief, has arrived to take temporary command of the Triona. Mr. P. Maclean, manager of the National Bank of New Zealand at Hastings, who recently returned from London, where he was attached for some time to the head office of the bank there, has resumed his duties a.t Hastings. Mr. W. B. Williams, manager of the Courtenay Place (Wellington) branch of the National Bank, who relieved Mr. Maclean, will resume his position at that branch. Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the Polar explorer, landed at Taumarunui last evening in an aeroplane piloted by Fliglit-Lieutenant J. C. Mercer, after a flight from Dunedin. Mr. Ellsworth was welcomed by the Mayor, Mr. C. A. Boles, and later he and Mr. Mercer were taken to The Chateau Tongariro by motor car. Mr. Ellsworth intends mountaineering there until his departure for Los Angeles by the Mariposa from Auckland on February 10. ILe Hon. E. A.' Ransom, Minister of Lands, visited Papakura to-day t > inspect properties which have been offered to the Small Farms Board. Accompanied by Mr. F. W. Schramm, M.P. for Auckland East, he will go to Waiheke to-morrow to inspect an area of bush which it is suggested should be acquired for a scenic reserve." On Saturday he will attend the Warkworth Agricultural and Pastoral Show, and leave later .lie same day for Waitangi.