Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18507, 8 October 1925, Page 8

Personal Items.

The Governor-General, Lady Alice Forgusspn, Miss Fergusson, and Major Haviland, who Save had a strenuous three days in Hastings visiting the schools in the daytime, and attending social gatherings at night, return by to-day's express to Wellington. x They visit the district again on October 21st, when his Excellency will open the new Show Grounds at Hastings for the A. and P. Society's Spring Show. o Mr F. R. Hogarth (Wellington) is staying at the United Serried Hotel. Councillor J. Aston, Wellington, arrived by the ferry steamer yesterday morning, and is staying at the Federal. Hotel. Professor Powell, of Canterbury College,, has h©*3n appointed local honorary secretary for New Zealand of the Amerfcan Institute of Electrical Engineers. At. the annual meeting of the Beck- ( enham Tennis Cub, Mr A. C. Maxwell j: was re-elected president and, iu_recognition of his past services to the club, was elected' at life member. Messrs A. Beauchanip (Wellington), H. Willis CEhinedin), H. Thomas (Sydney), and C. Oliver (Oulvordeu) are amoiig the guests at the Clarendon Hotel. I- At yesterday's meeting of the Waimakariri River Trust, a vote of condolence was carried with the widow of tho late Mr B. B. Couston, consulting engineer to the Trust, who met his death in an accident on Tuesday. Mr H. Hamilton, assistant at the Dominion Museum, Wellington, has left on a visit to the Hen and Chickens Islands; and, as his itinerary is a somewhat lengthy one, he is not expected to return to Wellington till "about tho end of the month. Mr J. W. Collins, secretary to the Department of Industries and Commerce, last evening received the congratulations of the executive of the Canterbury Industrial Association on his appointment as Commissioner of the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition.