Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 12 August 1932, Page 10

Personal Items.

Sir "Willinm Hunt armed *~_ north by yesterday's ferry. ™ a » %

Mr J. B Thomson left morning on his return to In/eraSS?Mr W. E. Best, who has W* B** 8 ** buiness visit to the North lZa«-i* * turned to Christchurch yestord»» **" ing. *■* Messrs A. Allport and D. Mc«l» (Timaru) are staying at the S*r*!!? Hotel. "«aa* Messrs Cyril Bitchard jaj ■». Lcighton, of the J. C. iiS* Koses'' company, are stayins *t « United Service Hotel. * " ™» Messrs John Farrell (Auckland * Ramsay (Sydney), and B. G. Wfilk (Wellington) are staying at the SriS Service Hotel. *"** Mr Samuel Bowman, of Dunedhi u. been appointed commercial rem**!., tivo of the .New Zealand iCT 1 due* Control Board.—Press Aaodifi?' Dr. W. J. Worboyg, of Imperial Chemical Industries, England, has left Auckland forSSj by the Aorangi. r&[ Mr J. B. Wallis, who has Wi trict valuer in Auckland for l&jjz is retiring after 3-5 years' serrieeS the Vali!.- ion Department. Mr H. C Whyman. wli* hu acting manager lor the Life As?iiranco Society, i-btirch branch) is resuming ; 'Js?j£ duties as inspector. He leav«iariw c-din this week. ™"

Messrs A. J. Moguv, H. Hamm v E. Best, C. A. Ramsa'v, G-TSrin' A If. Christie. C. Hwfer, jffc Hanks, and B. Collins were tmoji" tfas l-assengers from the norti ta jesterday's ferry. .

Mr P. A. Herbert (formerly of Kd. son) has been appointed priaeiMl of the telegraph division, GJP.O., WtQiig. ton. The vacancy was created bytli retirement of Mr E. C. Hands, who »»» recently appointed general manager «f the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. Mr J. Banks, headmaster of Hastings Central School, has Announced hiatal. i.ntary retirement from the teaching ptotession after-42 years of semes in the employment of various Rhtcaiitu Boards, and will relinquish hia posiiiet as from September 4th. At the last meeting of the Komi County Council votes of sympathy tob passed with the relatives of Mr Jamji Ashworth, a very old pioneer of Hoift Canterbury, and with the relative* of Mr Frederick Horrell (Banghua), far many years the county'a representatftt on the Hospital Board.

Mr Allan Leslie, 1L8.C.VJ3., of the staff of Lincoln College, is leaving fo. day for Sydney to attend the veterinary section of the Australian and New Zetland Conference for the Advancement of Science. Mr Leslie will be the official delegate at the-conference of the PhuV sophical Institute of Canterbury. Mr J. F. Singleton, a brother of tk TV. M. Singleton, director of the dairy division, New Zealand Department d Agriculture, has been appointed Canadian Dairy Commissioner in Buccessioa to Dr. J. A. Ruddick, who retired last March. Mr Singleton, who has bees r.cting-commissioner since then, has been in the dairy and cold storage; branch of the Canadian Department ofy Agriculture since 1914. Mr James Melville, M.Sc, A.LG, rf Otago University, who has beer awarded a New Zealand University' travelling research scholarship in science, has left Christehnreh on his way to London, where he will continue lis studies in chemical engineering. Daring" the past few years ha has been oeea- •' pied in research work and,also itf airing the position <rf <f ia -*li#' chemistry Dta'ver- ' Bity. -'-;..---'-.-.-• Information hat ijfcpatty t*ea received in Canßteantta- that ProfcesorXJames Shelley, Protewor of T»neatioj| at Canterbury College, will ana* |f Auckland on August 15ta, ana abosffi ba in Christchurch about August w, During the past nine months Tntuatg. Shelley has been making a laet*in|| tour of the United States, # ltartjp||gr Chicago and gradually woriasg tpgMKF across the States, lectnriig 'U .!ss!#the chief cities. - ;"'./#?^! Mr Harold Parker William*,'*!*!*;'; ing manager, has been manager of the Australiaa Burning, Commission's service at a saIaWABC tween £2OOO and £2500 per jw»»»ja£ has for many years been radio work and has a widfrtaowaiMgr foreign and local affairs, Melbourne "Herald." It is *«&pp that one of the first improvement**ft*, service to be undertaken by Mr WjHlw|: for the commission will be tfle'fttMlte of a national orchestra. - ""r'A|fe Mr Walter C. Weston, offh* W naki Herald," New P!ymootb,-««MR; informed that at a meeting rfHjfc." Court held in London on Jtiw SeWM:' was elected to the membgsMp ct -THR Company of Newspaper Newspaper Makers' ContpairyV will be one of the London has been established by a ttmtmrmjm flp.ential men in the ness, and the Court includes SttWf, ley Oarr, Sir Robert DpnaJd, - W Charles Higham, Sir Edward BmM* others. . -£ v