PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 203, 29 August 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. Suter left for Wellington by < tlie early express this afternoon. The Kt. Hon. J. G. Coates left last evening for Wellington by the Limited express. ! Mr. C. M. Bowden, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland and is staying at the Grand Hotel. I Mr. A. B. Casey, the etationmaster at Hamilton, has received notice of his transfer to Stratford. .Mr. P. Martin-Smith will be a pasfor Wellington by the Limited express this evening. Mr. W. A. Faireloiigh left for Dunedin by air this morning to attend a meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Mr. E. C. Schnackenberg, of the Public Works Department, has been transferred to the head ottic-e and will leave to-mor-row for Wellington. '1 he Hons. F. F. Lark, T. Bk.odwortli, B. Martin and J. Alexander, M.L.C.'s, will leave for Wellington by the Limited express this evening. Mr. G. H. Mackley, general manager of railways, accompanied by Mr. A. W. Wellstead, commercial manager, and other departmental officers, arrived from Dargaville by rail car laet evening. Tliey will leave this morning for Pokeno by motor car. Mr. J{. J. Gillibrand, who has been transferred on promotion from the Chief Post Office, Auckland, to the position of supervisor of telegraphs at the Chief Post Office. W'estport, left last night by the Limited express to take up his new appointment. Colonel G. W. P. Grattan, geneial secretary for the Salvation Army for Xew Zealand, and Brigadier (J. Dry, men's social secretary, left yesterday afternoon by train for Putaruru to pay a visit of inspection to the Salvation Army Training Farm.

Messrs. S. A. Cleal, president, and A. I. Lamb, past president, will leave for Wellington to-morrow evening by the Limited express to represent the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association.

Lieutenant-Commander C. V. S. J. Marsden, who was navigator of H.M.S. Veronica in Xew Zealand in 1920-21, has been placed on the retired list with the rank of commander. He will retain his post, for the present, oil the staff of the Devonport dockyard, which he has held >-ince 192-5.

Air. Angus Mcßean, formerly of Auckland, and now the principal of the English section of the Institut auf dem Kosenberg, at Gallan, near Zurich, the largest college in Switzerland, is to arrive in Auckland next month on a holiday visit to the Dominion.