Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18604, 1 February 1926, Page 8

Personal Items.

Tlio Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., arrived from Wellington on Saturday. Mr W. F. Parkinson has been ap-, pointed a member of the Ellesmere Licensing Committee. Sir James Parr will arrive in.Christchurch to-morroiv. He is to open the new Boys' High School at Riccarton in the afternoon. Major-General Sir George Richardson, Administrator of Western Samoa, left Auckland by the Tofua on Saturday for Apia. Mr Thomas'A. Turnbull (Worcester street) leaves to-day for Dunedin to attend the mining conference there. He is accompanied by Mrs Turnbull. Mr L. Hartley, who has been acting as headmaster of the Te One School, Chatham Islands, returned to Christchurch last week. Mr H. A. Goudie, who has retired from the State Forestry Service, Rotorua, is visiting Christchurch. Ho is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. The Hon. W. Pember Beeves will spend some time in Auckland and spend the month of March in Wellington. He will sail on his return to England in March. Mr A. Ecroyd, secretary of the National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand, left on Saturday night for Auckland, to attend a meeting of the executive of the Association. Major George Mason, managing director of A.E.C. (Australia), Ltd., tho Australian branch of the London company which builds the buses for the London General Omnibus Company is at present in Wellington, accompanied by Mrs Mason, and will attend the bus and tramways conference early next month, when the proposed regulations for the control of bus traffic will be discussed.