PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cable. message from London states that Sir Arthur Mvers, o’f Auckland, has passed the crisis of double pneumonia, and is slowly improving. The Hon. W. Noswortby, Minister of Finance, arrived in Wellington yesterday from the South Island.

The Attorney-General and Minister of Customs, the Hon? W. Downie Stewart, accompanied by Miss Downie Stewart, left last evening for Dunedin. The Minister will probably be absent from Wellington for about ten days. The Hon. Sir James Parr, Minister of Education and Postmaster-General, is expected to leturn to Wellington from the north to-day. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, has received the Royal Warrant of his appointment as a member of the Privy Council. The warrant bears the Royal Seal, and is issued under the hand of the clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Maurice Hankey. Mr. A. M. Samuel, member for Ohinemuri, who has been visiting Wellington, left for Auckland yesterday.

Air. F. N. Bartram, member for Grey Lynn, Auckland, was a passenger from Palmerston North by the 2 p.m. Auckland express yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. M. T. MacEachern left for Auckland by the Limited last night. Captain A. E. Conway and Major Henderson, of tlie Defence Department, left for Auckland yesterday by tlie 2 p.m. express. Dr. Carrick-Robertson, of Auckland, was a passenger by the Limited for Auckland last night. ’ Air. H. G. Smith, formerly general manager of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, and an ex-president of the Wellington Bowling Club, who has decided to take up his residence in England, left with Mrs. Smith for Sydney yesterday by the Ulimaroa to connect with the Siievic for London, via Cape Town.

Dr. and Mrs. Gilmer and family, of Upper Willis Street, are leaving on a trip to England and the Continent by tlie Rotorua on April 24. Air. J. W. Foster, Wellington, left for Sydney yesterday to there join the Aloldavia for London.

Air. F. W. Furkert, Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department, with bis wife and daughter, will leave for Auckland bv to-morrow evening’s express to connect with the Aorangi. They will leave that steamer at Suva, and proceed on to Pago Pago, Honolulu, and San Francisco by one of the Oceanic Steamship Company’s liners. From San Francisco they are to journey by rail to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. Thev will visit Fort Rupert and other 'places of interest in Western Canada, journeying eastward bv the Canadian National line of railways, and will at Montreal join the steamer Orhimnia for Liverpool. After a tour of the United Kingdom, Mr. Furkert will visit Ireland and the Continent, and will return home via Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Java, and Australia. x . Among the passengers to leave for Svdiiev vesterdav by the Ulimaroa were Mr and Airs. Buckmaster,, of Waitoa Rond Hafaitai, and Mr. T. R. Williams, of Hataitai, who are to connect with the Omnia for London. Mr and Mrs. L. Barber, of Petone, left for Svdney by the Ulimaroa yesterday to connect with the Moldavia for When the last mail left. Mr. Charles Z'ichnrinh, lately Wellington manager of the Public Trust Office, was visiting London with his sister (from New York).