PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 12, 9 October 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.IL, will arrive in Wellington to-day from Christchurch.

Mr. W. A. Kennedy, manager of the Union Steam Ship Co., returned by the Maunganui yesterday from a short holiday in Sydney. Mr. T. T. Hugo, Inspector of fire brigades, is visiting Auckland.

Professor Riddet, of the Massey Agricultural College, is visiting Auckland.

Mr. A. W. Menzies, chairman of tlie Auckland Football Association, has returned to Auckland from Wellington. Appreciation of services rendered by Mr. G. H. Lusk to amateur athletics is expressed iu the annual report of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Centre. Mr. Lusk retired from the position of centre delegate on the New Zealand Council owing to being transferred to Palmerston North, and Mr. G. S. Bright, who is keenly interested in the vcling section of the sport, was elected to till the vacancy.

The appointment of LieutenantGeneral Halliday, Adjutant-General of the Royal Marines, to be General of the Royal Marines, is gazetted, states a British oflicial wireless message. General Halliday won the Victoria Cross for bravery during an attack ou the British Legation at Peking some 28 years ago.

Keith Poulton, aged 29, a prominent tennis player, who visited New Zealand in 1923, was killed in a motor accident in the Mosman suburb, of Sydney, states a Press Association message.

A British official wireless message states that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour leader, is going on a visit to Vienna, Prague and Berlin. He is accompanied by Sir Oswald Mosley, Labour member of Parliament, and Ladv Cynthia Mosley, who is a daughter of the late Marquess Curzon, former Foreign Secretary. It has been arranged that while in Berlin Mr. Ramsay MacDonald shall address the members of the German Reichstag in the Reichstag Building.