Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20427, 23 December 1931, Page 10

Personal Items.

Mr James Hutton, Principal of tk« Greymouth Technical School, has accepted the rectorship of the Gisborne High < School.—Press Association. Mr H. Mackenzie (Wellington) it staying at Warner's Hotel. ' Guests at tlie United Service Hotel include Messrs J. P. Col will, H. Mason (Wellington), and J. Logan (Glasgow). Passengers from the north by tjht ferry steamer yesterday morning included Professor T. A. Hunter. Dr. E. Gunn, Captain Blackburn, and Mr D. Cody. , Mr P. W. P. Carlyon-Brittain, of Chichester, England, arrived by the Ventura, on a short visit to New- Zealand, He will visit relatives in the Dominion. , Mr C. H. Clibbom, secretaiyof the Lytteltori Harbour Board, is oonfined to his home with severe cranial neuralgia and will not he able to retain to duty for some days. His eon, Mr Denis H. Clibbom, who has been operated on at St. George's Hospital for peritonitis, which supervened upon •>. acute appendicitis, is now/progressing favourably. Owing to his serious breakdowa in health, the Bishcp of Melanesia, the Right Rev. F. ]&» Molyneux, has resigned. ,He is ..now on his way to England, by the P. and o._ liner Bal- \ larat, arid there, is little hope that he will be able to undertake work in the - tropics again.—Pross Association. Mr Justice IVazer, who has been presiding at the sess|Pn of the Arbitration Court in Christcliureh, left last evening; for Wellington. With him were Messrs A. L. Monteith (employees' represent*- i - tive on the Court), and J. A* Gilmour >. (Registrar). Mr W. Cecil Prime (em- ' ployers' representative) will remain is Christchurch), > Mr J. M. Buckridge, of Hawera, has *_ been appointed pilot instructor to the Wairarapa Aero Club, according to the - , "Hawera Star." Mr - Buckridge holds "the rank "of Flying Officer in the New ./ Zealand Air Forces Mr H. Preston, * , formerly ground engineer to the Marl-, i ' borough Aero Club, has been appoint- ,?■' "ed to a similar position with the Wai-- , <f * rarapa Club. "fg* Dr. E. Kidson, director of the Do- ■_ mi nion Meteorological Service,- returned .. > yesterday from England, where.he at* ' tended the centenary meeting of the British. Association for the 'L ment of Science. He also attended *■' ;£t meeting of the International Meteoro- ,|| logical Society at Locarno, SwltjseP- • land, and went to Nonvajr to study_ ..iS* the advanced meteorological wort* being carried out in that country. — ?| Press Association. * Mr Hilcote Pitts-Brown, of Nelsonj has been appointed to the position of resident master of Scots College, Wei- Jil lington. Mr Pitts-Brown was educated', yfl at the Wanganui Collegiate School)' _ where, in his final year, he was head .t j of his house and second school prefect., v From Wanganui he proceeded to Can- -k terbury and later to Grenoble ,■?- University, France. He then went to >, <■„ Magdalen College, Oxford, /where, he ?. took an Honours Degree. While at Oxford, Mr Pitts-Brown was Domin- ■■■ ions Secretary of the British Umversities League of Nations _ Society, ■■,. > and was a delegate of the British Uni- . ; versities at several international con- , . ferences. He attended courses at the Geneva School of International Studies under Professor Zimmern. &t Oxford Mr Pitts-Brown his colleg* in Rugby and athletics. Since his re- ■ . turn to New Zealand he has been ® ;•' member of the staff of the Wanganui Collegiate School. . ■ • Sir John Roberts, C.M.G., announced at the annual meeting of the Unio n Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., that on account of advancing years he had decided to retire from the Board ofthe company at the end or the current year. Although Sir _ John Roberts has decided to take this step / on account of his age, it is a source of the greatest satisfaction to his late colleagues and to his friends generally that he is enjoying excellent healthHe joined the Board of the company to • 1903, and has acted as- deputy chairman since January 20th, 1914. air John Roberts is one of New Zealand s most prominent citizens. He no B pastoral interests and is the s ® Jllor t partner of Murray, Roberts, and j- 0 ™" pany, which firm -he inaugurated n> "> Dunedin, in 1868. He was president of the New Zealand and South Sea» • Exhibition held in Dunedin in 1889-90, Mayor of Dunedin, 1890. member ot the University Council 1885-91. „ a l! | cl since -1907, vice-chancellor, i*""? ,i and director of several New ZeaUna companies. He was created v.M.uin 1891, and received the honour or knighthood in 1920. -.