PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

A garden party in honour of Lord and Lady Liverpool will take iilace at Government House to-morrow afternoon.

The Prime Minister (Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) is expected to return to Wellington from his vacation on Monday next. The Minister of Marine (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) returned to Wellington yesterday from Feilding. Aidermen W. T. King and F. Stimpson, of Brisbane, w - ere among the bowlers to arrive from Sydney by the Marama yesterday, Mr. P. D. Walsh, a well-known Sydney surveyor, was a passenger for Wellington by the Marama yesterday. Major-General Browne was a passenger from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. Professor Park, arrived from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. L. De Beer, of Dunedim returned from a trip abroad by the Marama yesterday; Mr. S. Gyles, who underwent an Operation in Bowen Street Hospital, is now out of danger. The death of Sir Norman Rae, former president of the British Wool Federation, is announced by an Australian Press Association message from London, _____

According to the “Church News,” Archbishop Averill (Primate of New Zealand) hopes to attend the Lambeth Conference in England in 1930.

A short time ago the directors of the Midland Bank announced that Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe had been appointed to a seat on the board. He will thus assume his third directorship, fis he is already connected with the executive bodies of the Bank of New Zealand (London hoard) and the Cayzer, Irvine, and Co., Ltd. Admiral Sir Charles Madden is also a director of the latter concern.

Mr. George M. Moir, M.Sc., an exstudent of Otago University, has won the Pedler Research Scholarship of the Institute of Chemistry for research work in connection with the proteins of milk at the National Institute for Dairying at Reading, England. This is the first scholarship ever awarded by the institute, which is the leading association of British chemists.

Mr. Dennis Brown, B.Sc., of the Department of Physics, Leeds University, was expected to leave for New Zealand at the end of December to take up the position of lecturer in physics at Auckland University College. Councillor F. Meadowcroft, who was taken suddenly ill in the afternoon of Christinas Eve, and who has since been confined to his home, is now out of . danger. He expects to be about again shortly.