PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Private information has been received that Dr. R. G. Phillips-Turner, son of , Air. E., Phillips-Turner (Secretary of Forestry) has passed tile examination for Fellowship of the Royal College. of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Mfss M. Moore, of Palmerston North, is leaving New Zealand shortly to take up missionary work in Palestine. The Rev. and Mrs. David Calder, of Wellington, are to leave for Sydney shortly to connect with the Orvieto for Port Said. There they will leave the mail boat in order to" tour the Holy Land. Mr. A. J. Valentine, of New Plymouth, has bopked to leave Sydney for South Africa by the Bendigo at the end of the month.

Captain T. W. Pickard, for 29 years in the service of the China Navigation Company, reached Sydney on January 4 on the Cliangte. He is accompanied by Mrs. Pickard, and will proceed to England by way of New Zealand. On a trout and salmon fishing excursion to New Zealand, Mr. Nicholas Everett, of London reached Sydney on the Changte on January 4. He will spend some months in the Dominion, and will return by way of the South Sea Islands. Advice has been received in Christchurch that Mr. H. H. Robson, who received his training as an engineer at Canterbury College and the Addington workshops, has been appointed superintendent engineer of the United States Fruit Company’s large fleet. Mr. Robson, who was at Home when the war broke out, served in the Naw, and later went to. America. The fleet of which he is in charge trades out of Atlantic and Pacic norts and throughout the Caribbean Sea. Mr. E. Holdgate and Miss Holdgate, of Timaru, are t? leave for Sydney by the Ulimaroa to connect with the Chitral for Port Said, where they.will break the vovage in order to tour Egypt and the Holv Land before proceeding to the Old Country. . After two months visit to tne United States and Canada, studying systems of testing and treating milk. Mr. R. E. Herron, manager of the Wellington municipal milk depot, has begun' similar investigations in Britain, states a Press Association message from London. Mr IT J. Heinz, the millionaire principal of the Heinz Company, of Pittsburg Pa., U.S.A., arrived at Auckland veste'rdav bv the R.M S. Aorangi, in order to enjov some sport amongst the big fish at the Bay of Islands. Mr E. J- Guiness, Comptroller of Stores, New Zealand Railways, who has been on sick leave for about three months, and underwent an operation in Bowen Street Hospital some time ago, has now completelv recovered and resumed duty. Mr Goodhew, Mayor of Goulhurn, v-ho has been visiting the Auckland district, will return to Wellington to(Jav. He will inspect the harbour works this morning, and this afternoon will see something of the industries it! the Hutt Valiev. Mr. Goodhew, who is staying at the Hotel Arcadia, will return to Australia to-morrow. i