PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. A. Turner returned from a visit to Wellington by train this morning. Mr. M. C. McCoy returned by the early express after a visit to Wellington. Mr. V. R. Meredith returned to Auckland by the Limited express from Wellington this morning. The Hon. T. Bloodworth. M.L.C.. was a passenper for Auckland by the Limited express this morning. Sir Walter Stringer, clialrman of the War Pensions Appeal Board, left for the south by air tlii> morning. Mr. K. C;. Begg. of Wellington, who has been visiting Auckland, will return south by the Limited express this evening. Mr. Stanley S. Scott and Mr. G. A. Gentles returned to Auckland by train this morning, after a business tour of the North Island. Mr. G. F. Dixon, private secretary to the Attorney -General and Minister ofJustice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason. has left for Wellington. Mr. Justice Kennedy, lia« been attending a sitting of the I'i.urt of Appeal in Wellington, returned to Auckland by train this morning. Sipiadron-Leader X. S. Chandler, of Blenheim, who has been vi.-iting Auckland. is expected to return south by the Limited express this evening. New Zealand National party, returned to Auckland by air yesterday. Mr. .Tack Foster, who since leaving Auckland a year ago has been in Wellington and Napier, lias again taken over the management of the Central Hotel. Mr. N. T. Lambourne. Director of Education, arrived from Wellington by the Limited express this morning. He will return south by train on Sunday evening. Dr. E. P. Ellison, chief medical officer in the took Islands, left Auckland by the Matua for Suva. He is to join a chartered schooner for the purpose of investigating leprosy on outlying islands.

Mr. J. Barr, chief librarian and director of the Art Gallery, and Professor W. A. Sewell, were appointed by tlie City Council last evening as its delegates to the twenty fourth meeting of the Art Galleries and Museums' Association of Australia and New Zealand, which will be held at Canberra next ■Tanuarv.

Mr. S. Elliott Napier. until lately a>si>tant editor of the "Sydney Mail," and author of a number of Australian travel h.»oks and \oluines of essays, who is now on a \5- it to New Zealand, returned to Auckland from ISnto.-.ia yesterday. He will he in the city for a fortnight. and with his son, Mr. C. E. Napier, of Birkenhead.

Mr. Lan Blair, of Barah estates. Bara-t C'bakia. India, the ton of Mr. and •Tames Blair, of Gishorne. has received a commission in the Indian Army Reserve, and will he appointed to a cavalry regiment. He will l>e joiped soon by his sister. Miss Jorelyn Blair, who will leave by the Narbada from Dunedin for Calcutta, en route to BaraChakia.

Professor Alexander Findlay. professor of physical chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, and external examiner in

chemistry for the University if NewZealand, who has been spending about a month lecturing in the Dominion, was a passenger to Auckland by the Limited express this morning. He will leave for Australia 011 Monday, and while there will deliver the Liversidge lecture.