Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19508, 3 January 1929, Page 8

Personal Items.

The Hon. Mr Sidey. M.L.C., pamj through Christchuri h last night on kii way to Wellington. Sir John Solmond has been appoint** Chief Mftrsbitl of the Royal Air Fores, succeeding fiir Hugh Tremhard, states a London mesnag*. Mr C. Park, a banker from United States, is making s tour of \>* Zealand and Australia. Father MeKean, of Bat hunt, is r*. turning to Australia by the Aorangi after a year's holiday abroad. Mr E, Antcombe, of Dunedin, r®. turned by the Aorangi from a holiday tour of England and the United Statu. i Dr. A. A. Bpong, ft' T.on don, htii rifflLi turned to New Zealand on holnlntuk Some years ago he «n,« practising i. H Akaroa. * .Mr J. A. \V;.lk( ;, liijnagt'r of the Ash* burton Wooden Mills, resumed b.v th# Aorangi from a visit to the United States. Colon?I M. N. of the Indian Arn. v, arrived in Auckland by the Maungam.i on a holiday visit te Nc'.v Zealand. Mr A. W. t liftV. a agent from London, haj come out to spend ; three week* in N' r v Zealand before g»» , ing on to Australia. Mr K. Milner, r< .. tor ol the Waituki Boys' Hk;l< School. is at pre* sent in I hrwtcliuroii. .•< ml is a guest at the Claremlovi Hotel. Mr JlVank Hutching, professor of pianoforte music at the Sydney Con set* vatoriuni, arrived in Auckland by the Maungnnui nnd left to spvid a holiday in Wangafiui. Cuests at the United Service Hotel include Messrs M. Archer (Welling* ton), W. Lungton Carets (London), 0. iiomnier (Amsterdam), and W. A« Simpson' (Wellington). Professor A. 11. Bailey, Associate I'm. fessor of Physics at the Sydney U diver* sity, arrived at Auckland by the Maunganui on ;i si* wee lis' liolfdsy visit, to New Zealand. lleoeut urrivaU ; l Warner's Hotel include Messrs \\ . I'd.- (Dunedia), D. A. Barker (Whurenui), A. V. Green (Wellington!, C. (» Murray (Lake Tekapo), nnd W. J. Radford (Colo* rado). Messrs C. It. Law ronee (Wellington), R. V. llobinson (Sydney), W. K Me. Laren, R. J. McLaren (Timaru), M. Pohl. J. Bow en (Sydney), and S. .1. Coulter (Blenheim) aro among the re» cent arrivals it the Clarendon Hotel. Mr Walter J. Kadford. the new resident manager for the Bimu Qoldroining Company, at Hokitika, reached Ancleland by" the Aorangi. H" was formerly connected with tho General Development Company, of New York. Mr H. C. Peters, of Seattle, U.g.A, who arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi, will spend two weeks in New Zealand, and will theu go to Australia, the Malav States, China, and Japan for three and a half month*. Mr J. A. Warnoek returned to Auek-* land by the Aorangi, after a six months* tour abroad. Mr Wftrnoek wa# the victim of a nasty accident while visiting the Niagara Falls, but he has now recovered. Engineer-Commander Sutton, of H.M.S. Renown, has been promoted to the rank of captain, and LieutenantCommander Leach, of the same ship, ha* been promoted to commander, states en Australian Press Association message from London. Tbe Methodist Young Men's Bible Class Convention in Chrtetohureli passed a resolution yesterday congratulating the Rev. W. T. Blight, 8.A., minister of Durham street Methodist Church, on passing hie Bachelor of Divinity degree. Mr T. H. Lowry, of Hawko's Bay, arrived by the Maunganul. His son-in. law, Mr A. F. Chapman, captain of the English cricketers now in Australia, intends coming over to New Zealand after tlie Tests are finished, and spend* ing a couple ef months in the Dominion. After an eleven months' tour of Europe, tho Continent, and the United States, Mr J, F. M. Rhortt. of Duneditt, returned to New Zealand by the Aorangi, Mr Short!, who has combined business and pleasure on the trip, is one of the directors of John Chamber# and Son, Ltd. Mr G. T. Cubbtm, ex-Chief of Police in the city of Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A., arrived at Auckland by tbe Aorangi. H«s will visit relatives and see the slghte in the North and the South Islands f#f two weeks, and Mil go on to Aunt rati* and Europe. Mr Cnbbon was Chief of Police for eight years, and for two years was on the Wichita City Coencil, Wichita is larger than Wellington, and is a typical mid-Western city. Mr F. D. Tiapp, from Brooklyn, Ne# York, who is on his second trip round the world, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi. Mr Trapp is connected with General Motors, Ltd., and hopes to get nn insight Into the motor business 1« New Zealand. It is hi# second visit te this country, nnd it is his intention tin study Netv Zealand's #e«nic ettrnrtioWl 83 much as possible, Mr Trapp will go on to Australia, and will bo away front the United .States for several years. , Mr L«»gton Cnvers, of Loudon, gem* cral manager ot the Ocean, Accident, and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd., Wii a passenger from Wellington by jretMN day's ferry steamer nnd was kept btisjT during the day ot the C'hristchnrefc ofiloe of tbe company. Mr Cavern ia oil * tour of the company's branches throughout the world awl already haa visited Au*tinnn. After completing hi» tour of New Zealand, Mr Cavers leavea for America. He intends going to Dun* <xlin to-day. Mr E. A. Thomson, of l>une«ii». who went to London twentj - veitr* ago. to now fiii-p -r'nti ndent of the Blue fctaf Line, sind luis returned to New Zealand for the first time *ltie«j he went away. Rome of his relatives who were WftiliUJ for him on the wharf at Auckland had not aeen Mr Thomson for 26 years. Be is an old boy of the Otugo Boys' High Sehool, and burned hii engineering witi a Dunedin Arm. Mr Thomson had ■«?•!* seen Auckland until he arrived by the Aorangi on Sunday. Tlie Hon. W. E. V. Bobson, M.L.C, New South Wslft#, hit been on • tjoH" day tour for ten months through Eng* land, the Continent of Curope, A men A, and Canada, n:id is returning by the Aorangi. He stated nt Auckland that the more friendly relations now e*llti*t between employers snd employed wenlf go a long way toward improving the general state of things at Home. He added thet in the neer future #ev»r«l of the industries which were ill a d#* pressed stcte would receive Ootw ment protection. Tiie wonderful reso»o<* of the Empire gave htm every eonfl* dence for the future. Mr H. Neviil Smith, formerly o# Chii-.tchiiri b, writing from the School of Allied Arts. Intcetiis, AriK»i U.B A «ays he has done much singing in the States and hat been well reoeiv* ed. The first week lie was in Frawisco he sang three times from dill went radio stations and had "l*» turn ' engagements. Hie water-colon* work al»o wo* meeting with greet ewjcesa. He stayed at Tahiti for • !«••» and did good work there and sow eefr era I works a I good in ioeit. At »«• annual Fine Arts Exhibition he :i awarded ''Honorary Mention." TbeP> were only flr*t-cla«i and honorary tion in the class, whicli wan open to anv artist living in the States, so,#• thought he did well. The winter eli»nte was glorious in Arisone tod to* desert fa&cinatiog for painting. tij I