PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL. The Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoe, is to visit Eastbourne on Thursday afternoon, when he will present a 'flag to scholars of Muritai School, and later will lay the foundation stone of tho new Masonic Hall, which is being erected on the main road.

Sir Harold Beauchamp left Wellington yesterday ou a short visit to Auckland.

The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Mines, Morine, and Labour, returned to Wellington from Auckland by the Main Trunk express yesterday. Mr. A. T. Traversi, Government Life Insurance Commissioner, returned from a visit to Australia yesterday. Mr. P. E. Pattrick, accountant, left by the H.M.S. Maunganui yesterday for Rarotonga to undertake t’» audit of the Administration accounts on behalf of the Controller and AuditorGeneral.

Mr. L. A. L. Fielder has been appointed assistant-teacher at Berhampore. t Canon J. F. Courney has resigned his position as vicar of St. John’s Church, Westport, and accepted the offer of St. John’s Church, Latimer Square, Christchurch. Mr. E. L. Mowbray, of Wellington, who spent the winter months in Austarlia, as is his custom, returned to Wellington yesterday. Captain R. Bruce, of the Union Company’s service, returned to Wellington from a holiday visit tq Australia by the Marama yesterday.

Included among the guests at the Rotary Chib luncheon yesterday were Messrs. W. H. Field, M.P., and E. C. Cutten, S.M., of Auckland, and Dr. G. McDonald, of Dunedin, who had just returned from the medical conference at Melbourne. Mr. D. A. Aiken, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, who has been on a combined business and pleasure visit to England, Scotland, and the Continent, returned to Wellington yesterday by tha Marania. Mr. Aiken came put from London to Australia on the Ormonde. Mr. 11. E. Bourgeois, of Napier, is spending a few clays in Wellington. Mr. Len. Barnes, the Wellington baritone, returned yesterday from a four years’ sojourn in America and England. Ho will leave this evening on a visit to Christchurch and Dunedin. Mr. Barnes brings news of the marriage in London of Mr. Martin Duff (formerly of Wellington) to a Miss Jermyns, a violinist. Air. Barnes was best man at the wedding. Mr. Duff is now singing profesionally as Martin McDuff, with fair success. The death is announced in Hastings of Mr. Ernest Nelson, fourth son of Mr. William Nelson, of Waikato, Toinoana. Mr. Ernest Nelson had been an invalid for some years, the result of an accident.

Mr. George Carter, ALL.A., and an aiderman. of the Brisbane' City Council, is visiting Wellington. Air. Carter is particularly interested in the working of New Zealand social legislation. Mr. G. C. Godfrey, Secretary of the Marine Department, returned yesterday from a visit to Auckland.

Residents of South Canterbury _ last night presented a public testimonial at Timaru ip the. Hon. J. Craigie on the ovo of his departure on an extended tour of Britain, Europe, and the East. The meeting was representative of all sections of the community and was marked with much enthusiasm. A lengthy address was • presented, outlining Air. Craigie’s many services on all public bodies in 'Timaru, also in Parliament, and enumerating his many public gifts. 'The. address was accompanied by a handsome massive silver wilvor. Speeches were made of a highlv appreciative nature, wishing Air. Oraigio a pleasant trip alter >•, strenuoi’s public .life-' —press Assn.