PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. C. Grierson left last night far Wellington. Mr. R. A. Singer left for Wellington by the Limited last night. Mr. S. J. Harbutt returned from Wellington yesterday morning. Mr. A. Harris, M.P., left for Wellington by the Limited last night. Mr. J. L. Hay, of Christchurcli, arrived by the Limited this morning. Sir James Gunson returned from Wellington lay the express yesterday morning. Mr. H. G. R. Mason, M.P., arrive I from Wellington by the Limited this morning. The Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., of Nelson, arrived from Wellington by the Limited this morning. Captain V. G. Webb, marine superintendent of the Union Steamship Company, is at Hotel Cargen. Mr. D. L. McKay, inspector for the Guardian Trust and Executors Company, Ltd., left last evening for Taranaki. Sir Robert Anderson, ot Invercargill, arrived from Wellington by the Limited this morning and is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. V. R. Meredith, sole selector for the Auckland Rugby Union, returned from Wellington by the Limited this morning. Messrs. P. R. Sargood. D. A. Ewen and G. Z. Lindley, directors, of Sargood, Son and Ewen, Ltd., arrived in Auckland by the Limited this mo.-ning. Mr. E. Casey, assistant general manager of railways, and Mr. E. T. Spidy, general superintendent of railway workshops, left for- Wellington by the Limited last night. Mr. H. H. Lock, chairman of the.central executive of the Royal Life-saving Society, is to visit Australia and' New Zealand instead of Mr. Sydney J.- Monks, chief secretary, and is travelling by the Ormonde, due at Fremantle on September 18.

Lieutenant R. E. Wash bourn, of H.M.s. Diomedc, has been awarded the Ronald Megaw Memorial Prize for 1932-33, having obtained highest place in the lieutenant's examination. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. E. Washbourn, of Nelson.

Dr. Raymond Firth, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. B. Firth, of Auckland, has been appointed to the readership in anthropology at the London School of Economics, University of London, where lie has been lecturer in anthropology since last j - ear.