Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19312, 17 May 1928, Page 8

Personal Items.

The Minister for Agriculture (j&A, Mr Hawken) arrived at Duiledin Hit " evening from Invercargill, Ho brtk& / the journey north to attend the Anil, * versary function of the Edendalo DaW ' Company. Tho Minister will loavo fo? the north by the express to-day.-." Press Association. . * • The Hon. Mr Downfo Stewart, Mlri.'rf ister for Finance, rettittrtd to Wel*v lington yesterday from Auckland, . ] Dr. T. G. Gray, 1 nspector-Gkjioral ol?'JMental Hospitals, is Aiickl&nd^j! Mr P. D. N. Verschaffelt;, Service Commissioner, is on & visit tsi,j Auckland. w T Mr Francis Utting, of Aucklahd, hills' been appointed editor of the Wan|j*4i? nui "Chronicle."—Press Association;-}^' Those registered sit 'Warner'# include: Messrs S., E. Mair'fMifcm bourne), T. H. Macky C. Clabburn (Wellington). Recent arrivals at the include:—Messrs Sidney EirwiwM' (Wellington), C. R. (Timaru), F. Keir Cclonel, Stewart (Milton). • Mr F. D. Oxley. formerly the Bank of New Zealand at Mlhlfij*)Taranaki, has been appointed ant at the Carterton branch' of-'USE?-, bank. The old-established legal Izard and Loughnan jubilee yesterday. Hie office Staff-t«|f( entertained to stippejvat $6. of Mr R. J.LptlstianJaCT'JiigH ,J|£ Mr W. Pagevftotre, chafrman.of«li*p'i anthropology ; rectioh o{ the Ahcklawt i . Institute, will shortly retiirh to land. His resignation was receiVed the annual rreetitg of that BectioftjKi the Institute. jjjß}? \ Messrs H. G ilbett(London). Long (Wellington), Ai .Bell A. M. Batten .(weltiMtytt)j.3WeM j Turnbull (London), 'ana, \V:^M(j(2Hjfc», (Geraldine) aie stayitig. ftt. tnß Service. , .Mr T. H. Patterson, and children, has arritf® Jttß HWjjS; Zealand. He haa beet! struotor of College, where there ber of youthful fltudents, r ßtatfea#filajlog tralian Press Association mttttgli Mr E. W. White, soUcitor, church, who is a graduate of tW Zealand University, ill tends » Christchurch in August England, combining pleftTOW ffigffaili research 'work. Mr wWt#.-wl £**9B?;; the London University til- take a graduate course in tho history m lish law for one session add terest himself also in toattflri the legal world. He hopes, twelve months' absencej. to rinVInternational Court at' (WtteW«,, yMg-, Detective' J. Thomcso", <£ - Jjffj Christchurch Detective Force, WJk. been transferred toAucklalid, by his fellows last night. lum farewell. He received i gtw < ragKaiapoi travelling rug and a nipMffi? case. Chief-Detective CarroUj made the presentation, Sergeant Almond. Detective-Sfcrfß»jS||; O'Brien, Detective-Sergeant and others, testified to Mr - popularity and efficiency _ dwUjgjiMp: nine years' service in Chrißtcnn^^ ; Detective Thompson repliedi.*H®|vsH§g. leave Christchurch this

At a special meeting of thoffiffapl of the Nelson Permanent ciety, held lecently, feeling we«*m«| were made by the chairman, Mr Bolton, and other directors. ■ valuable services rendered, ciety by the late Mr George Wj SgS® who for the past forty yeari tary of the Societv. , Mr gent, the oldest director, resolution expressing the widow and family and i?la<^ s record the fact that the OTeat creasing success of ?he SOTie»&i»Mg cine largely to the late Mr wide business knowledge and ence and his unfailing energy, j : *WMKgg. and integrity. The motion was cattgSgfc, members standing in silence space of time. With a view to tending the overseas markets WSaigKm Zealand apples and pears, Mf. Goodwin, assistant-director ot_/Vjgy||. horticultural division of the/if*gg§|t ment of Agriculture, left by the. steamer Kia Ora for video and London In the in jfifji the industry, the over made his services and knowledge able to the Fruit Export Board. While in South America investigate the fruit markets in ®"|g|||; video, Buenos Aires (ArgentiMJfeMtoi" Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and on turn journey to New Zealand enquire into the possibility ing the Canadian market for land apples. The South kets are becoming increasingly. tant' to New Zealand fruit sajWjSjjsj!; The Fruit Control Board has advice that the average prioß for the Pnkelia shipment cases of apples was equal to 1W SHij; case, c.i.f. Montevideo, over shipment, a price which is reearn«g|| very satisfactory. It is sential that the South ket should be fostered with a ,increasing regular shipments w ■