PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1935, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. H. Willis has been appointed superintendent in Canterbury for the Prudential Assurance Company. Mr. -E. A. Batt has been re-elected chairman and Mr. H. W. Shortt, vicechairman of the executive of the Automobile Association (Wellington). - Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle, formerly of Auckland, has been transferred to the commissioner's office in Wellington. Mr. V. J. Larner has been re-elected chairman of directors of the South British Insurance Company, Limited, for the Ensuing year. Sir William Hunt, of Wellington, chairman of directors of the National Mortgage Corporation of New Zealand, is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. W. Holmes, advertising manager of the International Harvester Company of New Zealand, Limited, has returned after a holiday trip to Great Britain. Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary of the Automobile Association (Auckland), left last evening to attend a meeting of the executive council of the North Island Motor Union at Palmerston North. Mr. W. Dixon was made a presentation by the Auckland' School Committees Association on Saturday night in recognition of his services as secretary and treasurer of the association for the past J5 years. Mr. G. C. Creagh, chairman of the Auckland Stock Exchange, left for Wellington to-day to attend the annual conference of the Associated Stock Exchanges of New Zealand. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt, of New York, left Auckland yesterday morning by car for Rotorua and Taupn, where Mr. Vanderbilt intends to do some trout fishing. They will leave by the Monowai on November 15 for Sydney in the course of their world honeymoon tour.