PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 183, 1 May 1929, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergnsson) and Lady Alice Fergussou have begun a fortnight’s fishing trip on the Tongariro River. The Minister of Lands (Hon. G. W. Forbes) returned to Wellington yesterday from the South. The Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy) left last night for Auckland. He will return to Wellington tomorrow. The Minister of Labour (Hon. W. A. Veitch) is visiting the Waikato district The Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) returned to Wellington yesterday from the South. The Postmaster-General (Hon. J. B. Donald) will return to Wellington on Friday from Auckland. The Engiueer-in-Chief to the Public Works Department (Mr. F. W. Furkert) is at present at Arapuni. Mr. A. J. Campbell, Director of the Horticultural Division, is at present in Nelson on matters concerning fruit export. He will return to Wellington on Friday. Mr. E. Charles Lindsay, F.R.C.S., C. an eminent surgeon from Wimpole Street, London, will arrive in New Zealand this week. He will stay at his brother’s residence in Christchurch. Mr. A. Hirst, F.R.S.A., has completed his North Island tour, and will leave on his return to London by the Tainui on May 9. The chairman of the Transport Advisory Council (Mr. R. Masters) is visiting Wellington. Dr. Charles Chilton, for twenty-six years professor at Canterbury College, and rector from 1921 till 1928, has been appointed Professor Emeritus of the college in recognition of his work as professor and rector, states a Press Association telegram from Christchurch. The death occurred suddenly of Mr. G. G. Haldane, Chief Finance Inspector of the Commonwealth Postal Services, states a Press Association message from Melbourne. Mr. Haldane, who was 55 years of age. went to Australia from Nelson, New Zealand. Mr. F. W. Rowley, Secretary to the Labour Department, who has been in the South Island for some days past in connection with the problem of finding occupations for boys leaving school, will return to Wellington on Saturday in order to attend the conference on unemployment. At the Central Police Station, Superintendent Emerson, on behalf of the Wellington members of the Police Force, presented a solid leather suitcase and a wallet to Senior-Sergeant D. Scott, who has been transferred to Oamaru. Inspector Rawle and other members of the force also spoke in eulogistic terms of Senior-Sergeant Scott, who left for Oamaru last night. The Canterbury College Board of Governors unanimously decided that a brass tablet, suitably inscribed, should be placed in the College Hall to the memory of the late Alexander William Bickerton, Professor Emeritus of Canterbury College, and that the ashes of the late professor, which had been forwarded from England, should be deposited in a cavity behind the tablet, states a Press Association telegram from Christchurch.