PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Walter and Lady Stringer will leave to-night for the South Island. Sir Joseph Ward, who is returning to New Zealand from England, is a passenger by the Aorangi, which, a Press Association message states, arrived at Suva yesterday. Mr. Justice Frazer and the other members of the Arbitration Court left Wellington yesterday morning for Wanganui. Major F. W. Mathews, V.D., N.Z. Corps of Signallers, has been posted to the retired list Mr. G. Baildon, Mayor of Auckland, has returned home from Wellington. Mr. D. Jones, M.P., arrived by the Maori from the South yesterday morning. Mr. W. Cowper, New Zealand manager for the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company, has returned from a visit to Australia. Mr. P. R. Cliinie, organiser of the Canterbury Progress League, is visiting Wellington, having received advice that his father, who resides here, is seriously ill. Professor R. E. Davies, of Dunedin, has left for Sydney accompanied by Mrs. Davies and family. He will spend several months in Australia. The appointment is gazetted of Mr. Alexander Dinnie, District Engineer of the Public Works Department, Napier, as a member of the Transport Appeal Bord, No. 8 District. ~ Major Clive and Mrs. Joske are passengers by the Aorangi from Suva, for Sydney, ou a honeymoon trip, states a Press Association message. Mr. C. A. Whitney, of Auckland, who has been attending the’Acclimatisation Conference in Wellington, will return to Auckland by the Limited express to-night. Stating that he could not give the movement adequate attention, a letter tendering his resignation was received from Mr. H. W. Thomas, a member of the executive committee of the Northland Progressive Association, at the monthly meeting of the association last night. It was accepted with regret. Mr. P. C. Watt, of Wellington, and Mr. S. L. P. Free, of Masterton, Wellington's representatives at the Rotaryconference to be held in Japan next month, left Sydney for the Orient by the Aki Marti on Saturday last. Mr. A. P. Smith, managing director of James Smith, Ltd., who is returning from a trip to England and the Continent, is a passenger by the R.M.S. Aorangi, due at Auckland on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. A. P. Smith, accompanied by Mr. J. G. Smith, will leave by the Limited express to-night to meet him. Lieut.-Coionel R. C. Wickens, D. 5.0., V.D., of the New Zealand Artillery, has relinquished the appointment of Commander, 3rd Field Brigade, N.Z.A., and Artillery Group, Southern Command, and is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. He has been succeeded in the command of the. Brigade by Major J. G. Jeffery, M.C., who is granted the temporary rank of Lieut.-Coionel. The late Mr. Tudor Atkinson, of York Bay, whose death was recorded yesterdav, was the second son of the late Sir Harry Atkinson, and was brought up in a bush clearing near Mount Egmont. His wife, who died ten years ago, was a daughter of the late Hon. J. C. Richmond. The deceased was associate to his uncle, the late Mr. Justice Richmond, for some time, and afterwards practised the law for about twelve years. He was at que time associated with the flotation of a big company for working the timber of the Taupo district.- A man of wide sympathies and unusual accomplishments, he had written the lyrics of several songs, and was deeply interested in metaphysics.