PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 15, 12 October 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. F. J. Holleston. AttorneyGeneral and Minister of Defence, will leave for the south by the Wahine to-night.

Tlie Hon. O. .1. Hawken (Minister of Agriculture) is in Elthani where he will remain until after the General Election.

General Sir Alexander Godley will leave for Gibraltar to-day, to take up his duties next week as Governor (states a British official wireless message). Sir Philip Chetwode, who is due to relieve Lieutenant-General Skeen on October 29 as Chief of the General Staff at Delhi, will also leave Loudon this week.

Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the Hamilton Licensing Committee in place of Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M.

Recognition is gazetted of the appointment of Mr. 11. 11. P. Ballantyne as Consular Agent of the United States at Christchurch in - lace of Mr. H. P. Bridge, who has resigned. Captain G. Buckley, conductor of New Zealand’s champion band, arrived by the midday express yesterday to adjudicate in the local band contest. Mr. G. Baildon, Mayor of Auckland, returned from Wellington by train on Tuesday. He is suffering no ill effects from the slight. injuries he received in a motor accident on Monday. Tlie Hutt River Board, at its meeting last night, decided to write to the Hon. T. S. Weston, M.L.C., and Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., and thank them for their efforts in securing the passage of the Hutt River Board Empowering Bill through Parliament. Mr. E. J. Parr, Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools, is expected to return to Wellington from Auckland today.

Mr. A. Bell, Assistant-Director of Education, is at present in Dunedin. Mr. Charles A. Scott, South Island manager for the British General Electric Company, has resigned his position after 18 years’ service. He will take up the position of electrical manager for Messrs. J. Burns and Co., Auckland.

Mr. J. Wood, chairman of the Waimakariri River Trust, Christchurch, is at present in a Wellington hospital to undergo an operation. Messrs. A. J. Stratford, L. P. Leary and A. C. Brown arrived in Wellington from Auckland yesterday to attend a meeting of the London and New Zealand Bank Company, Ltd. Mr. A. G. Houldsworth, secretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, arrived in Wellington yesterday to attend the annual conference of the Chambers of Commerce here. The Rev. G. E. Moreton and Dr. A. R. Falconer, of Dunedin, are visiting Wellington for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Dominion executive of the St. John Ambulance Association.

Mr. E. Hitchcock, general manager of the Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department, who has been on a visit to Wellington, returned by the ferry steamer last night. The death is reported in a Press Association message from Auckland, of Mr. F. W. H. Brinsden at the age of sixty. The late Mr. Brinsden was a member of the Auckland City Council.

Mr. A. B. Cochran, M.A. (N.Z.), B.A. (Oxon.), has been appointed lecturer in English at Victoria University College. He has had a distinguished record- as a student of Auckland University College. He started his career there as an entrance scholar, and subsequently won the senior university scholarship iu English, while qualifying also for that in French. He graduated M.A., with first-class honours in English and French, in 1924. In 1925 he was awarded a post-graduate scholarship in arts and proceeded to Oxford, where he continued his studies in English language and literature, graduating B.A. with high secoud-class honours. Mr. Cochran has only recently returned to New Zealand after spending two years at Oxford. The Dunedin Methodist Central Mission has agreed unanimously to invite the Rev. G. B. Hunter, of the Takapuna Church, Auckland, to assume the superintendency of the mission next year in succession to the Rev. W. Walker, who has accepted a call to the Pitt Street Church, Auckland. Prior to taking over his new charge, Mr. Walker will, during January and February, go on leave, and the mission has extended au invitation, to the Rev. J. Draper, of the Methodist Theological College, Auckland, to supply at Dunedin Central Mission during this period. —-Special Service. Mr. Leslie Walton, chairman and chief managing director of the Vauxhall Motor Co., is expected to arrive in Wellington from America on Tuesday next on a brief business visit to New Zealand.