PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 231, 30 September 1935, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Professor R. M. Algie lias been appointed honorary Consul for Czechoslovakia at Auckland.

Mr. W. C. Barry, director of the live stock division of the Department of Agriculture, is visiting Auckland. Mr. G. W. Lowes lias been appointed inspector of mines in the Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast districts. Captain R. M. Burdon, of Canterbury, returned by the Niagara this morning after an eight months' visit overseas. Mr. L. Alderton, a member of the Transport Co-ordination Board, returned to Auckland by the Limited this morn-

Sir. G. T. Wilson, traffic superintendent of the Railway Department, is visiting Auckland, and is at the Station Hotel.

Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Board, arrived in Auckland yesterday, and is at the Star Hotel.

Captain L. V. Morgan, second member of the New Zealand Naval Board, arrived from the South by the Limited this morning.

Mr. W. G. Taylor, manager of the Colonial Motor Company, Auckland, returned with ilrs. Taylor by the Niagara this morning. Mr. Stanley S. Scott, managing director of Berlei (N.Z.), Ltd., left on Saturday on a business tour of the North and South Island towns.

Captain T. J. Watts, advisory superintendent of the United Fire Brigades' Association, leaves for Wellington by the Limited to-niglit.

Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, returned from Wellington yesterday after a visit in connection with hospital business. Messrs. M. J. Savage, A. S. "Uichards, W. J. Jordan, A. Harris, W. W. Massey, W. P. Endean and A. M. Samuel, M.P.'s, arc leaving for the South by the Limited to-night.

Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington and leader of the Democrat political party, arrived with Mrs. Hislop by the Limited this morning. They are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. J. C. Gaye, who was until recently at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, arrived in Auckland by the Remuera on Saturday to take up a position with the British Phosphate Commission. Mr. Walter Russell-Wood, of Dunedin, after a brief visit to Auckland, left last night for Cambridge, where he is acting as judge of the elocutionary sections at the annual competitions festival, which began this morning. Mr. R. L. Stewart, of Auckland, leaves by the Niagara to-morrow on his way to India to visit his daughter, Mrs. G. I. Gray, who is engaged in missionary work in that country. Mr. Stewart will be away for about three months.

Mr. I. E. Rawnsley has been appointed pilot-instructor to the Hawke's Bay and East Coast Aero Club as successor to Mr. A. G. Gerrand, who has been appointed chief pilot for Union Airways. Mr. Rawnsley, who is at present pilotinstructor to the Wellington Club, and who lias been flying for 17 years, will take up his new duties on November 23.