Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 16

Personal Items.

The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, leaves Invercargill for- Wellington by the express this morning.—Press Asso- | ciation. , Sir James Allen was a passenger from the north by yesterday's ferry steamer. Mr C. M. Ollivier and Mr G. J. Lancaster returned from Wellington by yesterday morning's ferry steamer. Messrs F. Johnston (Dunedin) and E. P. C Swainson (Feilding) are re-ct-nt arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr E. C. Huie, of Auckland, is spending the week-end in Christchurch. He will return north on Tuesday evening. Mr W. Hicks has been elected chairman of the Wellington Football Association. Guests at the United Service Hotel include Messrs R. H. Webster (Wellington), Karl Baals (Springville, N.Y.), F. J. Hyde (Timaru), and C. Milner (Nelson). Mr Stanley Smith, managing director of the '"'Dunedin Evening S.ar," who has been attending meetings of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association in Wellington, passed through Christchurch yesterday on his return to Dunedin. Mr Bernard Tripp, of Gleniti, Timaru, has joined the Board of Directors of the- New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Limited, in place of J&r H. J. Beswick, who has left New Zealand tq reside in England. Captain H. B. Burreli, of Wigrim Aerodrome, is expected to fly back from the Mair Fair, which concludes at lnvercrrgill on Saturday. Captain J. L. Findlay, who is leaving for England, will probably sail from LyHelton on Tuesday on the Port Campbell. Mr Tahu Hole, who received his early training in journalism on the s'.aff of The i'i.ESi, and who has been on the staff of the ''Auckland Herald" for the past two years, has received an appointment on the literary staff of the "Brisbane Daily Mail." He leaves for Brisbane at an early .date.

Advice has been received in A uckland that ihe Rev. R. B. Davison, M.A., vicar of Mayfield, Newcastle, Australia, has been appointed vicar of Thames. The new incumbent is successor to the Rev. N. F. E. Robertsi] awe, who recently resigned the parish to go to England. The Rev. J._W. Robinson, who has lately relinquished charge of the Hun'tly Anglican district on account of failing health, will proceed immediately to Norfolk Island, where he will take up duty as priest-in-charge erf the island. The Rev. C. J. Bush-King has been appointed to Huntly. At yesterday's meeting of the Canterbury Education Board, a letter was received from the Department advising the visit of Dr. J. W. Mannhardt, and asking that facilities be placed in his way to observe educational institutions in Canterbury. It was resolved to comply with the request, and to extend any courtesies possible. Professor H. S. Dettmann, formerly Professor of Classics at the Auckland University College, now headmaster of the Svdney Grammar School, arrived in Auckland on the Ulimaroa to spend a holiday visiting old friends. For L 6 years Professor Dettmann held his post in Auckland. Prior to his first arrival in New Zealand he was a master at the Sydney Grammar School, and he returned six years ago to take charge of the big institution. At the last meeting of the Education Board in Wellington notification was received from the Department of Education that Professor J. W. Mannhardt, who was accredited by the German Government, would shortlv be visiting New Zealand in the course of a world tour for the purpose of studying educational questions, and it had been re? quested that he should be given facilities for observing the working of the education system of the Dominion.

Mr H. C. Lusty, assistant ditlfl railway engineer at Christchurch, jsfl annual leave. M Mr J. McNair. district railway M gineer at Christchurch, is on the Wfl Coast on Departmental business. M Mr James A. Rea arrives in ChM chnrch this morning by the from Wellington. . : mM After spending considerable JH travelling in New Zealand, Miss Dickson leaves Auckland on for Sydney. ' -^H The Hon. Sir Charles £**j[H Speaker of the House of tives, has returned to WeUingtcvjH Messrs J. Fenwick (Auckland),JH Bridgeman (Wanganui), and Moffatt (tnvercargill) are si Warner's Hotel. "H^| Mr R. S. Kent, the South Island Railway expected to return from WeliinfWH The Hon. Sir James Allen ImH passenger from Wellington . Nq|H terry steamer yesterday morningiJH lelt later for Dunedin. I Mr E. L. Rutledge. general auiaH I for New Zealand of the Fox Fiijiti^H Deration, returned to WelUngtosaH evening after a visit to PnaenfiM^B Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. who was in command of theXMH bury Battalion at Gallipoli. MJMK Wellington to reside in ChrijrtjMjEl de is staying at the Federal B£HHI The Rt. Rev. F. A. BenMljH Maori Bishop of Aotearoa, publicly welcomed on his Chrirtcbur.-h, at the Choral Monday, May 27th. His Mavor," Archbishop Julius, of Christchurch (who will the Rev. Canon Galwey wiUIMH speakers. The pupils of Te namu School will perform tkjM welcome when the Bishop ****"l^H At the meeting of the exec *ri* r mittee of the Dominion Council on Thursday evening, of sympathy with the re^atlT **j c ||H late Sit James Wilson, of BoIiMM passed. At the time of his James was a District Scout sioner, which- appointment be for many years. l^R Mr T. Toovey, first assistaatMH general manager of the Port don Authority, will be a TI | Christchurch next week. is making a tour of Australia Zealand to see something of t>MBH cipal cities and ports and to ( *ise * the marketing »nd dw**VH facilities of the Port of is due here on Thursday the guest of the Lyttelton Board, who will enable him brought into touch with the. producing, importing, other interests here. 'aH