PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 9 December 1936, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Sir George Elliot will leave for Wellington to-night by the Limited. Mr. J. A. Gentles arrived by the Limited this morning from Wellington. Mr. G. Grey Campbell will leave for Palmerston North to-night by the Limited. Mr. Harvey Turner arrived in Auckland by the Limited this morning after a visit to Wellington. 1 Mr: A. M. Seaman will leave to-night for Wellington to attend a the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr. T. U. Wells, chairman of the Auckland Education Board, will leave to-night by the Limited on a visit to the Napier district. Mr. A. Grayson, a member of the council, and Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary, of the Automobile Association, arrived in Auckland this morninsr by the Limited. Mr. H. L. E. Priestinan left Auckland' by the Awatea this afternoon for Sydney, where he has been appointed to the position of assistant trade commissioner for ' Canada. Mr. H. H. McCormick, president of the New Zealand Olympic and the British

Empire Games Association, after visiting Auckland to farewell Mr. J. E. Lovelock, left last night by train for Wellington. Major J. R. Kirk, M.8.E., Director in New Zealand of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, 'Limited, is a through passenger from Wellington for Sydney by the Awatea this afternoon.

Mr. T. B. Ching, manager for the United JCingdoiii of the South British Insurance Company, left on November 13 for a visit to Australia and New Zealand. _ He expects to spend two months in New Zealand, and to return via Panama in April. Mr. C. E. Ahrens, of the New South Wales Agricultural Department, has been appointed to the position of headmaster at the Agricultural College, Suva. Mr. Ahrens is son-in-law to the Rev. A. N. Scotter, of St. Paul's Methodist Church, Palmerston North. Mr. H. E. Read, who recently made his last trip as chief steward on the Aorangi, claims to have crossed the line a greater number p of times than anv other man at sea. Mr. Read has retired after nearly 50 years' service with the Union Steam Ship Company, Limited. Mr. J. M. Finlier, Trade Commissioner for Tasmania in New Zealand, arrived by the Awatea from the South this morning and left for Tasmania in the same ship thi* afternoon. Mr. Fisher, whoso headquarters are in Dunedin, will return to the Dominion in one month's time.

| Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P., Civil Lord j of the Admiralty, who has completed a six-day tour of Xew Zealand, leaves for Sydney by the Awatea this afternoon, j After calls at Melbourne, Adelaide, I Perth and Fremantle, Mr. Lindsay will sail for England, stopping: for a week j in He is due back in London [ on February 20, Mr. A. 15. Thompson, of Auckland, and Mr. K. Wint'erbonrn. of C'hristchuvch. who hold C'anie.sie Education Fellowships. are studying in England at the Institute of Education iit the Univcr-ity of London. They are iiivestigatinj* teaching problems, and are carrying on work begun for the New Zealand Council of Educational Research. Lieutenant-Commander H. O. D. de Chair, who served iu the slonp Laburnum on the Xew Zealand station in 1027-20, has been appointed to command the destroyer W'estler in the flotil'a attached to the Vernon torpedo school. Lieutenant-Commander de Chair i< the eldest son of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, late Governor of Xew South Wales.

Professor T. Hytten. economic adviser to the head office of the Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, .who passed through Auckland in October as a d legate to the Congress of the Federation of. the C hambers of Commerce of the British Empire, will he the speaker at the Auckland Chamber of Commerce luncheon on January 14. He is president of the economic, statistics and social service section of the Australian and Xew Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.