PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr. A. McGregor Grant will leave foi Wellington by the Limited express on Sunday night.

The Hon. E. R. Davis and Mrs. Davis will leave for Wellington bv train 011 Sunday night.

The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, is spending the weekend in Auckland.

Mr. A. Turner, supervisor of imported fruit for the Internal Marketing D?partment, will return to Wellington by train over the week-end.

Dr. E. Marsden, secretary- of the Department of Scientific and" Industrial Research, left for Wellington by the afternoon express to-day.

Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Craven, M.C., has relirfquislied his duties as medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, and has left to rejoin the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Mr. T. F. Chambers, who has been for 41 years on the staff of the School for the Deaf, Sumner, and has been director for the past nine years, will retire at the end of this month.

The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates and Messrs. W. P. Endean, C. R. Petrie, F. W. Schramm, P. Carr. A. S. Richards and C. W. Boswell, M.P.'s, arrived from Wellington by train this morning.

Mr. C. M. Sword,- son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Sword, Napier, has passed his nautical examinations after attending the Edward VII. Nautical School, London, and is now second officer on a ship, name and destination not disclosed, according to cabled advice from London.

District officer C. W. .Gooderham, who has been serving in the reserve list of officers of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, is returning to the active list. Mr. Gooderham joined the brigade in England in 189S and came to New Zealand in 1014. He was appointed Auckland district officer in 1934.