PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 190, 14 May 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) is in Hamilton. The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. O. J. Hawken) is at present in the South Island.

Mr. W. 11. Field, M.P., left Wellington on Saturday for Ohakune.

Dr. L. G. Crow, of Wellington, and late of Auckland Hospital, is leaving by the Hororata on an extended visit to England for post-graduate experience.

The Inspector of Fire Brigades (Captain T. T. Hugo) returned to Wellington from the south on Saturday morning. The Aga Khan, who is ill in Loudon with pneumonia, was stated in a medical bulletin issued on Friday evening, to be more comfortable. His temMr. A. E. Davy, Dominion organiser for the United Party, is expected to return to Wellington on Tuesday from the north.

For family and other reasons the Rev. J. Lamb Harvey, minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, has decided to return to Scotland in July. He came from Scotland to St. Andrew’s six and a half years ago.

Mr. 11. S. Hislop has returned from a motor tour of the North Island. He was accompanied by Dlrs. Hislop, perature was lower, and his general condition gave rise to no anxiety — British Official Wireless.

An Australian Press Association message from London states that Herr Emil Bohnke, conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and his wife were killed during a motoring holiday on the Baltic coast.

The death occurred on Saturday night of Mr. Thomas J. Whelan. The late Mr. Whelan was until recently proprietor of the Alhambra Hotel and was the only surviving son of a wellknown West Coast family.

Dlr. K. Keane, son of the editor of the Christchurch “Press,” left on a visit to Melbourne by the Manuka on Saturday.

At the meeting of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last week resolutions of sympathy were passed witli the relatives of tlie late Mr. J. B. Harcourt, the chamber’s first life member, and with the widow of the late Hon. H. E. Pratteu, who, when in New Zealand a few months ago, was the chief guest at a luncheon tendered in his honour by the chamber. Mr. John Farrell, manager for J. C. Williamston, Ltd., at Auckland, arrived in Wellington on Saturday. He will leave for Auckland to-day to make the preliminary arrangements for the opening season in New Zealand of tlie company that is to play “The Student Prince” and “Madame Pompadour.” MrS. Con Daly (Miss Edith Harrhy), the clever composer and pianist, who lias been on a visit to New Zealand with her husband, left for Melbourne by the Manuka on Saturday.