PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 49, 21 November 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Viscount Hampden, accompanied by Viscountess Hampden, the Hon. Barbara Brand, and Miss Martin Smith, left for Christchurch last night. Sir Douglas Mawson arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Maheno from Sydney. Advice has been received that Major Erie Mackenzie, 0.8. E., M.C., M. 8., Ch.B. (Edin.), D.P.H. (London), Royal Army Medical Corps, has just completed the senior officers’ course of post-graduate studies in the London hospitals. In the examination held at the termination of the course he obtained the first place, winning the Leishman Gold Medal and gaining distinction in all subjects. Major Mackenzie recently spent some mouths in New Zealand with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Wallace Mackenzie. Mr. B. L. Dallard, Inspector of Prisons, is visiting Auckland. Mr. L. O. H. Tripp is visiting Rotorua. Mr. E. W. Kane, Clerk of the House of Representatives, is visiting Auckland. Mr. L. M. Moss, of New Plymouth, who has been on a business visit to Australia, returned by the Maheno yesterday. Mr. C> J. B. Norwood returned by the Maheno yesterday. Mr. Norwood, with Mrs. Norwood, Miss Norwood and Mr. Walter Norwood, travelled through the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and Italy. Mr. W. G. K. Wright, managing editor of “The New Zealand Dairyman,” returned to New Zealand by tiie Maheno yesterday. Mr. Wright left New Zealand last March to represent the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association at the World's Dairy Congress, which was held in England this year. He spent a great deal of time in the dairy world in England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, and returned home via Melbourne and Sydney. Mr. A. G. Henderson, managing director of the “Lyttelton Times,” arrived in Wellington by the Maori yesterday morning. Mr. J. McC. Dickson, chairman of the Otago Harbour Board, was a passenger by the Maori from the South yesterday morning. Dr. T. Derrick, of Auckland, who has succeeded Sir Truby King as Medical Director of the Plunket Society, is at present visiting Dunedin. Mr. J. 11. W. Wardrop, who for the last few years has been chief eftrk in the Lands and Surveys Department, Nelson, has retired on superannuation. Mr. Wardrop joined the Civil Service in 18S7, being attached to the Mines Department. lie transferred to the Lands Department a year later, and from 1902 to 1911 was on the staff of the School .Commissioners. In 1911 he again went to the Lands Department. During his long connection’ with the service, Mr. Wardrop was stationed also at Wellington, Christchurch, Napier and Gisborne. Mr. T. B. Strong (Director of Education), and Mr. W. W. Bird (Chief Inspector of Primary Schools) are visiting the children’s health camp on Mr. Lethbridge’s property at Turakina. They will return to Wellington this evening. The camp is organised by the Wanganui Education Board and is under the direction of Dr. Eliza? both Gunn.

Mr. Edwin Geach, the well-known theatrical manager, and one of the managing directors of Union Theatres, Limited, of Australasia, will spent part of his vacation in New Zealand, Mrs. Geach having taken a house at Day’s Bay, Wellington, for tlie summer months.