PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 75, 22 December 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

The many friends of Air. E. A. Ransom, ALP. for Pahiatua, will be pleas-

ed to learn that he is making a good recovery from his recent sudden illness, which overtook him while attending to business at the Power Board buildings last Friday. Mr. F. T. Al. Kissel, chief electrical engineer, Public Works Department, left for .Auckland yesterday to attend the opening of the Waitehiata Power Board. Dr. E. Porteous, of the British West African Service, and Air. R. W’eihzetl, late of the .Austrian diplomatic service, were passengers by the Athenic yesterday. Mr. B. J. Kortlang, the well-known cricketer, intends paying a visit to England and the Continent early- next year. Air. Culford Bell has gone to Russell, Bay of Islands, for a few weeks’ holiday. Air. E. A. Shrimpton, late chief telegraph engineer in the Post Office, returned to Wellington yesterday from Sydney. Amongst the passengers By the Athenic from England yesterday was tile Rev. Langston, an Anglican clergyman, who has been appointed to the charge of the Mangaweka parochial district. Mr. Langston has recently served in the Birmingham diocese, and is accompanied, by his wife and two children. *8 Professor Macmillan Brown and Dr. Farr, of Christchurch, who represented the New Zealand Institute at the recent Pan-Pacific Congress in Tokio, returned by the Marama yesterday. Dr. P- Marshall, returned to Wellington yesterday, after a visit to Japan, where lie represented the Government at the Pan-Pacific Science Congress. jlr W. E- Wilson will leave for Auckland by the Limited this evening