PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 131, 27 February 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Railways (the Hon. W. B. Taverner), Mr. 11. I-I. Sterling, General Manager of Railways, and Mr. Phillipps Turner, Director of Forestry, after a tour of the Rotorua district extending to Taupo, left yesterday morning for the Matamata and Arapuni districts. —Press Assn. The Hon. P. A. de la Perelle (Minister of Internal Affairs), after receiving a deputation of the racing and rod and gun clubs, will leave Rotorua to-day. —Press Assn.

The Hon. T. K. Sidey (AttorneyGeneral). the Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., and Messrs. W. J. Morrell and H. Aclaud, were passengers from the south by the Maori yesterday morning, to attend an executive meeting of the council of the University of New Zealand.

Mr. Justice Adams has gone to the West Coast of the South Island. Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M. (Nelson), is at present in Wellington and is relieving in the Magistrate’s Court.

Mr. Julian B. Foster, American Trade Commissioner for New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs. Foster, left by the Makura yesterday on a ten months’ visit to the United States.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is going to Bognor to recuperate after his illness (states a British official wireless message). It is understood he will stay a month. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, accompanied by Mrs. Coates, arrived in Wellington by the Limited express yesterday.

Captain P. J. Foster, marine superintendent of the Union Steam Ship Company, returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Lord and Lady Hillingden left Wellington for Auckland yesterday. Mr. C. Perkins, who was recently appointed Life Master at the Wellington Technical College, will arrive to-day by the Ruahine from England. . Sir Watson Cheyne, an eminent surgeon, who has been on a healthrecruiting visit to New Zealand, left by the Makura yesterday for San Francisco on his return to England. Mr. W. P. Barnett, Publicity Officer for the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in Sydney, arrived by the Marama yesterday on departmental business.

On the motion of Mr. A. L. Holliugs, Mr. N. J. Lewis was yesterday admitted by Mr. Justice Herdman as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. J. Beaumont Smith, managing director of J. C. Williamson’s Films (N.Z.) Ltd., arrived from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. Mr. Alfred O’Shea, the well-known tenor singer, left for San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Albert Russell returned from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. Mr. A. Seed, secretary to the New Zealand Sawmillers' Federation, returned to Wellington by the ferry steamer yesterday. He has been to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, attending the builders’ conference. i Mr. Robert Bell, of Christchurch, president of the World’s Press Congress, was a passenger by the Makura for San Francisco yesterday. Mr. Bell, who will preside over the fourth congress to be held at Ottawa in July, will subsequently visit England. Mr. D. Carter, manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, at Auckland, and Mrs. Carter, returned from a holiday visit to Suva by the Aorangi. Mr. R. G. Back, resident agent at San Francisco for the Union Steam Ship Company, left on his return to California by the Makura yesterday. Mr. J. Sutherland Ross, C.M.G., of Dunedin, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, arrived in Wellington by the ferry steamer from the South yesterday morning. He is to preside at the opening of the annual conference here this morning. Mr. A. C. Galbraith,*of Los Angeles, representative of the Atlantic Union Oil Company, arrived at Auckland from Vancouver by the Aorangi. He will make a business tour of New Zealand and Australia. Mr. William B. Cochrane, the new American Vice-Consul at Auckland, and Mrs. Coehrane, arrived in Auckland from Vancouver by the Aorangi. Mr. Coehrane will take up his duties almost immediately. After being connected with “Le Groves” since 1904, when the business was carried on by the late Mr. E. J. Le Grove, Mr. V. R. Bennett has severed his connection with the Le Grove Typewriter and Importing Co. Ltd. At a gathering of the staff on Friday Mr. E. E. Le Grove, on behalf of the staff, presented to him a handsome box of cutlery. Mr. Bennett has taken over the charge of the mechanical department of Messrs. W. J. Seater and Co. Mr. J. Rankin, inter-State representative and inspector of agencies for the Distillers Company Ltd., of Edinburgh, arrived from Sydney by the Marama yesterday on a tour of inspection of the company’s agencies in New Zealand. Mr. Rankin is a vice-presi-dent of the New South Wales Bowling Association, and is well known to New Zealand bowlers. He expects to remain in the Dominion for three or four months.