PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Public Works (Hon. E. A. Ransom) is expected to return to Wellington from Dannevirke on Thursday.

The Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy) returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday.

Colonel Robert Sandail, of the Salvation Army, who has been appointed editor of the “War Cry” in New Zealand, arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Sandail. Colonel Sandail, who has just completed two years’ service as editor of the “War Cry” in Georgia, succeeds Major Alfred Suter, who has been transferred to Palmerston North. Colonel Sandail has seen service in the editorial chair of the “War Cry” in Sydney and New York, and has also been connected w’ith the management of the paper in Toronto, London and Capetown. The Hon. John Cecil and Mrs. Cecil arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Cecil, who is 38 years of age, is a son of Lord William Cecil and the late Baroness Amherst of Hackney, and a grandson of the third Marquess of Exeter. He was formerly First Secretary to the British Embassy at Washington, a post’which he resigned in 1924, when he married Cornelia, a daughter of the late Mr. George Vanderbilt, head of a wellknown American family. Mr. Zane Grey, accompanied by Captain and Mrs. L. D. Mitchell and Miss M. K. Smith, arrived from Papeete by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Grey and his party have come to New Zealand for the tishimr season.

Mr. G. S. Williamson and Miss Jean Williamson arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Williamson is connected with the United States Department of Commerce at San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Peacock returned to Wellington by the Makura yesterday.

Mr. H. J. Patten, a prominent wheat broker of Chicago, arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. Mrs. G. Tritch, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Skinner and Mr. W. Moore, arrived from America by the Makura yesterday. They are visiting New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and Tonga under the auspices of the American Express Company of Chicago. Mr. C. H. Andrews, of Messrs. J. B. McEwan and Co., Ltd., of Wellington, returned by the Makura yesterday after an extended business tour abroad. The Board of Governors of the Wellington Technical College, at their meeting last night, passed a resolution congratulating the Hon. H. Atmore his elevation to Cabinet rank and his appointment as Minister of Education.

Canon Percival James, of St Mary’s Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland, intends to leave in April on a visit to England. He expects to be away about nine months.- During his absence the Rev. P. T. Williams will be in charge of St Mary’s parish. The second son of Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales, Mr. Somerset de Chair, was a passenger from Sydney to Auckland by the Niagara, which arrived yesterday. After spending a holiday in the Dominion with his mother, father, and sister (states a Special Service message), he will proceed to England to take a course in politics at Balliol College, Oxford. Lady de Chair and Miss de Chair are already in the Dominion awaiting the arrival of Sir Dudley from England by the Remuera at the end of the month. The family will remain in New Zealand until the end of January. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stuart Crow arrived from San Francisco by the Makura, on their way to Melbourne. Mr. Crow is a director of the Vacuum Oil Company of Australia. Mr. and Mrs. N. Mills arrived from San Francisco by the Makura, on their way to Sydney. Mr. Mills is foreign representative of the National Cash Register Company. Mr. A. I: Rattray, secretary of the Metropolitan Trotting Club, Christchurch, accompanied by Miss M. G. D. Rattray, returned by the Makura yesterday, after an extended tour abroad.

Dr. R. Mitchell Mackay, chief medical referee under the Workers’ Compensation Act to’ the Government of New South Wales, is a passenger by the Maunganui from Sydney, arriving this morning for a holiday in the Dominion.

The Right Rev. Leonard S. Kempthorne, Bishop in Polynesia since 1923, arrived from Papeete by the Makura yesterday. He will remain in New Zealand for a month and will spend a fortnight at Nelson on i visit to his parents, Archdeacon and Mrs. Kempthorne, who recently celebrated their golden wedding. Bishop Kempthorne, who had been on a tour of portion of his extensive diocese, was unable to land at Rarotonga ow’”'» t - an epidemic of sickness in Tahiti. He will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on January 15 on his return to Suva.