PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 273, 17 November 1936, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. A. Spinlcv arrived from Wellington by the Limited tlris morning. Mr. W. J. Holdsworth is leaving tonight by the Limited on a visit tc Wellington. Mr. Rudall C. Havward is leaving by the Limited to-night on a visit to C'hristehurch. Mr. C. G. Maeindoe arrived this morning by the Limited from a short visit to Wellington. The Hon. H. W. Downie and Mrs Downie leave Auckland by the Awates. this afternoon. Mr. H. O. Sinclair, of Auckland, leave? by the Awatea this afternoon on a busi n'ess to Australia. Wan Baharuddin, the young Malavai. nobleman, leaves Xew Zealand by the Awatea this afternoon. Mr. W. G. Thompson, formerly of tho Plaza Theatre, Auckland, has taken over the management of the State Theatre, Mastcrton. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Brown, formerly of Auckland, who have spent the last few years in Australia, are at present 011 a visit to Auckland. Vicomte and Vicomtesse de TaillepieA de Bondv are among the passengers on the Rangitata, which arrives in Auckland to-morrow morning. Mr. H. C. Couch, district traffic man ager of railways for tlie Auckland dw trict, arrived in Auckland this morning from a visit to the South. Mr. K. A. Falla, ornithob g.ft to tin Auckland War Memorial Museum accompanied by Mrs. Falla. will leave this afternoon by the Awatea for Australia. Mr. J. H. Bevan, manager for Australia and Xew Zealand of the XeuchateJ Asphalt Company, Ltd., is at present in Auckland, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell. K.C'.B., K.C.M.G., and Lady Russell are passengers on the Rangitata, which is due to berth in Auckland to-morrow morning. The Very Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst, Dean of Xapier, who has been 011 a visit to England in connection with the raising of funds for the rebuilding of the Xapier Cathedral, is a passenger on the Rangitata, which arrives to-morrow morning. Mr. M. R. Hornibrook, of Brisbane, manag : ng director of the M. R. Hornibrook Proprietary, Ltd., wiii leave /or Sydney by the Awatea this afternoon. Mr. Hornibrook has been in Auckland in connection with the Auckland harbour bridge proposal. Sir Edward Harding, Permanent L T nder-Secretary of State in the Dominions Office, accompanied by Lady Harding, who has been on a tour of Xew Zealand with Mr. F. E. Dwyer, of the Department of Internal Affairs, will leave Wellington for Sydney on Thursday by the Wanganella. Mr. J. Brown, manager of the Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Te Puke, will be retiring on December 31, after having served with the company for over 29 years. He will be succeeded by Mr. L. A. Sisam, now agent at Whakatane, who has been appointed acting-manager for the Bay of Plenty as from January 1, 1937. Sir Henry and Lady Horton, Canon E. S. Savage, rector of one of the oldest churches in London, St. Bartholomew the Great, Mr. S. J. Lamorna Birch, R.A., some of whose work is in Xew Zealand's Xational Art Gallery, Sir Edward HudsOn-Kinahan, Bart., of Fermoy, Ireland, Captain V. G. Webb, marine superintendent of the Union Steam Ship Company, and Mr. B. E. H. Tripp are among the passengers by the Rangitata, which will arrive from London to-mor-row morning.