PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 203, 28 August 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, left for Wellington last evening. Mr. J. Marsden Caughey left for Wellington by the express yesterday evening on a short holiday. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Unemployment Commissioner, is at present in Auckland at the Station Hotel.

Commander.F. Butler, of Portsmouth, has returned to Auckland from the south and is at the Grand Hotel.

Sir James Gunson. a member of the Railway Board, leaves for the south by the Limited express this evening. Mr. C. K. Grierson, president, leaves to-night by the Limited to attend the annual meeting of the New. Zealand Institute of Surveyors in Wellington. Dr. J. R. Elder, professor of history at Otago University, who has been visiting England for medical treatment, is a passenger by the Rotorua, which is due at Wellington on September 20.

Mr. C. R. Ford returned to Auckland from Wellington yesterday. He attended a meeting of the technical committee which is to prepare new regulations for earthquake-resisting construction. Mr. R. C. Dormer, director of Dormer Beck Advertising, Ltd., and Mr. R. Trenchard Smith, Auckland manager for J. Jnglis Wright, Ltd., Advertising, left for Wellington by the Limited last night. Mr. A. G. Lunn, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, left for Wellington by train yesterday afternoon. He is attending a, conference of the building societies of New Zealand. He expects to return home to-morrow morning.

Dr. Herbert McXickle, who gained his F.R.C.S. a year ago, and has since been in charge of "Harlow-Wood"' Orthopaedic Hospital, Nottingham; has been appointed registrar at Wellington public hospital. Accompanied by Mrs. MeXiekle, he is returning to the Dominion and will arrive in October. Archbishop Redwood, S.M., who is at present in Queensland, will return to Wellington next month. It is his intention to take part in the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Melbourne in December, and he will be accompanied by Archbishop O'Shea. Bishop Brodie, of Christehurch, and Bishop Liston, of Auckland. Mr. John C. Farrant. who has seen 47 years' service with the Union Steamship Company, Ltd., chiefly as a steward, is to retire at the end of this month. When the inter-colonial steamer Manuka was wrecked at Long Point between Bluff and Dunedin. on the night of December IC, 1929, Mr. Farrant was the last person to leave the ship.