PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Milroy, of Hamilton, are visiting Auckland. Mr. H. P. Richmond will travel to Wellington by 'plane on Monday. Mr. Stanley S. Scott, accompanied by Mr. C. IT. Sawyers, returned to Auckland to-day from a business tour of the Dominion. Mr. J. W. Mawson, who is townplanning officer for the Department of internal' Affairs, will visit invercargill on February 14. Dr. John Duulop, of Duncdin, .at present of Middlesex Hospital, has obtained the degree of M.H.C.P., London, according to advice received by cable. Mr. L. S. Graham, secretary of the Invercargill Fire Board, will YcpVcscnl the board -at tin? annual meeting of the New Zealand Fire Boards' Association in Wellington' on March 5. Mr. Arnold Fly, president of the Auckland Chamber' of Commerce, returned by the Limited express this morning from Wellington, where he took a seat for the first time on the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr. G. H. R. Fisher, supervisor, and Mr. L. J. "Walsh, senior telegraphist, at the Wanganui telegraph operating room, have been accepted as medically fit for active service and leave next Thursday to join 1 lie divisional signallers in camp. Flight-Lieutenant A. W. Burbidge. chief Hying instructor at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at North Taicri, has recently been promoted from the rank of flying-ofliccr. Before the war Flying-Officer Burbidge was flying instructor to the Otago Aero Club. The Rev. L. D. C. Groves, vicar of the Anglican parish of Mataura, Edciulalc, Wyndham and Fortrose. who is a NewZealand Army chaplain, has received orders to proceed to Burnham military camp as a padre. Mr. Groves was formerly curate under Bishop Fitchett at St. John's Church, Roslyn. The Rev. Dr. J. G. lnkster, of Toronto, who has been supplying St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, has left on a short tour of the North Island which will include Hastings, Napier, several of the Presbyterian Maori mission stations, the Rotorua district and Waitomo. He is accompanied bv Mrs. lnkster.