PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 12

PERSONAL.

Mr.. J. Fletcher returned to Auckland to-day by train after a visit to the South. Mr. J. Emanuel returned to Auckland yesterday by the Mariposa after an 11 months' tour abroad. Sir George Eliot was a returning pas.senger from Wellington by this morn* ing's Limited express. Mr. Justice Fair will leave Auckland to-morrow to attend a fitting of the Appeal Court in Wellington. Mr. G. M. Dillon, manager in New Zealand for Warner Brothers Pictures, Limited, is a guest at Hotel Cargen. Mr. N. B. Spencer has been appointed to the vacant seat on the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Flight-Lieutenant S. Wallingford, of the Hobsonville Air Base, returned to Auckland this morning by train from the South. The Hons. J. Trevethick and J. Alexander, M.L.C.'s, were passengers _to Auckland this morning by the Limited express.

Mr. M. Curran, -stationmaster at Tauniarunui for the past four years, has been appointed to succeed Mr. W. Cooper as stationmaeter at Tauranga.

Mr. F. J. G. Temm, of the Railway Department, has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration.

Colonel Albert Orborn, who has been chief secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand for three years, will leave in about a month to take over Salvation Army duties in Scotland and Ireland.

Mr. A. Harris, president, and Mr. F. E. Sutherland, manager, of the Auckland Savings Bank, returned to Auckland this morning after a visit to Wellington to attend a conference of Associated Savings Banks.

Messrs. F. W. Schramm, A. S. Richards, C. H. Burnett, C. A. Barrell, M.P.'s, and Mr. J. A. Lee. M.P., Parliamentary Undcr-Secrctary to the Prime Minister, arrived this morning by the Limited express from Wellington

Mr. Horace G. Miller, managing director of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company of New Zealand, Ltd., has been visiting Auckland to meet Mr. Richard Crooks, the renowned tenor, who was in Auckland yesterday en route for Australia.

Mr. Harry Atkinson, Commissioner of Patents, Designs and Trademarks and Registrar of Copyright, has been appointed by the Government as New Zealand delegate to the International Copyright Conference to be held in Brussels. He will leave about the middle of next month.

Mr. Alfred Katz. youngest son of Rabbi S. Katz, of Wellington, left by the • Monowai yesterday en route to Europe. Mr. Katz was university senior scholar in philosophy in 1934 at Victoria University, and took his M.A. degree this year with first class honours. From Europe he will go to Yale University to study for the Ph.D. degree in social psychology at(d anthropology.