Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19198, 3 January 1928, Page 10

Personal Items.

Professor Blunt is visiting Auckland, Mr E. A. James, Dominion mm*. tary of the New Zealnnd Political bT form League. has gone to Dunedin f£ tho holidays. w Dr. and .Mrs Peter Buck are at present in Samoa, where Dr. Buck carrying out investigations on behalf ! of the Bishop Museum at Honolulu Mr W. ,1. Belliugham, of Christ, ehurcli, musical director for the Badfo Broadcasting Co. of New Zealand, Ltd is visiting Auckland. Dr. Lewis Smith, a well.kno*» Harley street physician, and his wife reached Melbourne on December 20th' They intend visiting Tasmania and New Zealand for the trout fishing. Bishop Cleary, Konian Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who recently underwen; an operation at tho Mater MiscrieordUa Hospital, is reported to bo making very satisfactory progress. f ry Mr A. McNeil, Commercial AgA 4 lor Kawke's Bay and | N.Z.K., lias bwu visiting Cnrisi? church on annual leave, and left fot the Frans Josef Glacier yesterday. Guests at Warner's Hotel include;— Messrs G. Hudson, R. V. EllerbeflQ (Chiistchiiivh), E. J. Bviiny, 11. F. W. Brown (Dunedin), U. Surreli, A. Schul reck (Wellington), L. Parkinson (Wangamii), and C. W. L. King (Dun. Odin). Mr W. F. Hurgrcaves, uf the stall of tho Bank of New South Wales, Auckland, will leave shortly for Fiji, where he will tnko over tho position of accountant in the bank's branch, Mr IT. L. Stoddart will succeed, tot Hargreaves in Auckland. Sir Daniel Cooper, grandson of th» late Sir Daniel Cooper, first Speaker of the Now South Wales Legislative Assembly, arrived in Sydney by tht Orama from London. Ho was accom. panied by Captain A. H. Cooper. They will later spend a holiday at the Bay of Islands. Mr C. A. Noble, M.A., has boon appointod Bcionce master at Scots Col. lege, Wellington. Mr Noble, who is a sub-union representative football player and tho holder of a first lioutonant's commission, has been scienco master for some years at the Auckland Gram* mar School. The Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) left yesterday for Uwaka (Otago), whero ho will join Dr. Stenhouso on a fishing expedition. His Worship will return to Christchurch on January 17th, but will probably be absent from the next City Council meeting on January 30th, During his absence Cr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., Deputy-Mayor, will carry out the duties of tho City's chief magistrate. As a' mark of respect to tho late Mr K. D. Harman. one of the founders of tennis in Canterbury, and several times New Zealand champion, one. minute's silence was observed at Wilding Park on Saturday afternoon, when tho trophies won in the New Zealand lawn tennis championships were being presented by Mr J. H. Kirk, president of tho New Zealand and Canterbury Lawn Tennis Associations. Guosts at the United Service Hotel aro:—Messrs G. 1\ Huntar, H. H. Cave (Wanganui), H. J. Swanston (Eata), D. A. Cameron (Turukinu), H. F, Arknight (Overton, Marton), W, Stephens, G. Stott (Wellington), A, V. Moulton, E. Twomey. R. Twomey, (Dunedin), F. W. Crum (Scotland), N. O. Power (London), Andrew Wilson (Invercargill), T. A. Frankcomb (Tasmania). Mr Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician, sailed from Auckland for Australia by the Ulimaroa for the purpose of attending in Hobart the annual conference of Australian and New Zealand Government Statisticians. He will probably ahSo attend the meetings of the social and Statistical Science Section of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science and tb« annual meeting of the central bW. of the Economic Society of AustoW'i and New Zealand, on the ( editorial board of which Mr Fraser is at proaont the sole New Zealand representa* tive. Mr Fraser will be returning direcfc to Wellington.