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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1936, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir George Wilson returned this ing from the South. ■ ■ Mr. J. E. Bates, of. Cliristchurch, is a guest at the Station Hotel. Mr. W. T. Anderton, M.P. for Eden, will leave for Wellington to-night by train. Mr. A. H. Johnston, K.C., will be a "passenger for. the South by this evening's Limited express. The Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C., will be a passenger for the South by this evening's Limited express. Sir Harold Beauchamp, of Wellington, arrived lit Auckland this morning by the early express from the South. Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, chairman of the Railway Appeal Board, will leave Auckland to-night by the Limited express for Wellington. The Hons. C. J. Carrington, E. R. Davis and F. E. Lark, M.L.C., were passengers for Wellington last night by the Limited express. Mr. F. A. Jarrett was appointed assessor for the city under the Valuation of Land Act, at last night's meeting of the City Council. Mr. H. J. Kelliher, managing director of Dominion Breweries, Limited, arrived in Auckland this morning by the Limited express from Wellington. Mr. H. L. M. Buisson, soliciter, was yesterday admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Callau, on the motion of Mr. A. V. Fraer. The Hon. T. Bloodwortli, M.L.C., will leave for Wellington to-night by train. Mr. J. Fletcher will leave for the South this evening by the Limited express. Mr. H. W. Somerville, chief clerk and cashier in the City Treasury, has been appointed acting-city treasurer during the absence of Mr. Andrew Messer, the city treasurer, on sick leave. • Mr. C. G. Grant, representative of the City Council on the Auckland University College Council, was appointed an additional representative of the council on the Workers' Educational Association, at a meeting of the council yesterday. Dr. E. Teichelmann, of Hokitika, a veteran New Zealand mountaineer and a leading authority 011 the Southern Alps and the bush country in Westland, has been elected president of the New Zealand Alpine Club. Dr. Teichelmann is in his 77th year. Mr. A. A. Grayson, president of the Automobile Association (Auckland), and Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary, returned to Auckland this morning after a visit to Palmerston North, where they attended an executive meeting of the North Island Motor Union.

Miss K. E. Harvey, of the Wellington Public Library, has been elected as the North Island candidate to receive the grant-in-aid offered by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for training as a children's librarian at the library school at Pittsburgh according to a report submitted to the Auckland City Council last night.