Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 12

Personal Items

Officials of tile Cook Islands Administration, Captain A. A. Luckham, resident agent at Aitutaki, and Captain E. C. Vellenoweth, resident agent at Mauke, arrived at Wellington by the Makura from Rarotonga yesterday. They are on furlough.—Press Association. Colonel J. Hargest, M.P. (Awarua), was a passenger by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr Carl Nees, for many years on the staff of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association insurance department at Blenheim, and later at Ashburton, has joined the staff of the F.A.M.E. Insurance Company, Ltd., as district inspector for Canterbury and Marlborough, with his headquarters at Christchurch. Mr G. B. Bertinshaw, chief engineer of the New Zealand railways, is visiting Christchurch, and is staying at the New City Hotel. Mr D. J. Hewitt was a passenger from the North Island by the Rangatira yesterday morning.

Mr H. D. Skinner has been appointed curator of the Otago Museum in succession to Professor W. B. Benham, who has retired. Mr Skinner is lecturer in anthropology in the University of Otago.—Press Association.

Dr. Kellogg Speed, a distinguished American surgeon, and a noted authority on the treatment of fractures, will arrive in Auckland with his wife by the Mariposa toward the end of next month. Dr. Speed is professor of clinical surgery at the Rush Medical College, University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of •he American Surgical Association, and of the Societe Internationale do Chirurgie. He is the author of a text-book on fractures and dislocations.

Mr Frank Wilton, stores manager in the Post and Telegraph Department, will commence leave shortly before retirement on superannuation. Mr Wilton joined the department in 1895, and has served in Wellington continuously, having occupied his present position for 10 years. He has been the representative of the department on the Government Stores Control Board's advisory committee, of which ho. is chairman, since 1932. Mr Wilton has also been a member of the council of the New Zealand Standards Institute since its inauguration.

The Mayor (Mr J. W. Bcanland) loft for Wellington last evening to attend a meeting of the executive of the Municipal Association.

Detective A. M. Harding, of the central police station, Christchurch, who has been transferred to the office staff of the Commissioner of Police at Wellington, was met yesterday by members of the central station. Inspector H. Martin presented him with a gift from members of the force.

Among the passengers by the Makura which arrived at Wellington yesterday from San Francisco, were Sir Mark Sheldon and Lady Sheldon, who are returning to Sydney after a business trip to America and the United Kingdom. Also on board were Mr C. B. Howard, Liberal member of Parliament for Sherbrooke, Quebec, who is on his way to the British Empire Parliamentary Association’s conference in Adelaide; Mr C. P. Sayers, joint general manager of Willcox, Mofflin and Company, Sydney, who has been on a business visit to Great Britain and America; Dr. H. Smith and Dr. G. W. Harty, of Wellington. Dr. Smith, who is a prominent American physician and surgeon, is on a tour of New Zealand and the South Seas.