PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal, The Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson will leave Auckland this evening for Wellington, and will go into residence at Government House for the duration of the session. Sir Archibald Strong, Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Adelaide, who represented Australia at the recent Imperial Educational Conference in Canada, arrived in Wellington by the Makura yesterday on his return to Australia. The Leader of the Opposition (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates), accompanied by Mrs. Coates, is expected to arrive in Dunedin on June 9 and will remain there for several days.

Sir Joseph Carruthers, a former Premier of New South Wales, is travelling to Honolulu by the Niagara, which arrived from Sydney at Auckland yesterday (states a Special Service message). On his return journey he will visit various islands of the Pacific, which will probably include Samoa. Sir Samuel and Lady Hordern and Miss A. Hordern, of Sydney, are through passengers on the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday. Sir Samuel, in answer to a question (states a Special Service message), said he was only naking a holiday trip and it had nothing to do with any business transactions or of a public character.

Among the arrivals by the R.M.S. Makura from San Francisco yesterday was Mr. J. M. A. Hott, governing director. of J. Hott, Ltd., who has been abroad for six months on a business tour of Europe and America. Mr. W. L. Clabburn, who has been on a visit to the United States, returned by the Makura yesterday. Mr. S. H. Smith, Director of Education in New South Wales, who attended the education conference in Canada, is returning to Sydney by the Makura.

Major and Mrs. F. R. Burnham and party are through passengers from San Francisco to Sydney by the Makura. Major Burnham is heading an expedition to South Africa.

The Rev. J. Boothroyd, who has just completed ten years’ service in the Methodist Home Mission Department, has retired from the work. He is now in Christchurch, where he will make his home.

Mr. J. Binsted has been appointed railway locomotive engineer for the South Island. He was formerly assistant locomotive engineer at Auckland.

Mr. H. W. Bindoff, a representative of the well-known firm of David Jones and Company, of Sydney, is a through passenger by the Makura from San Francisco for Australia. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bayless arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Bayless has come to New Zealand in connection with the interests of the Texas Oil Company. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Klug arrived by the Makura from San Francisco on their return to Australia. Mr. Klug is a well-known Australian mining engineer and is connected with th® Broken Hill Proprietary, Ltd. Mr. J. St. H. Pope, who has been in the service of Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewen for the-past five years and has now joined the firm of J. S. Hiddleston and Co., was presented by the manager of Sargood’s, on behalf of the staff, with a travelling rug, leather attache case, and silver fountain pen and pencil as tokens of esteem. Mr. J. A. C. Thomas, of Wellington, and Mr. W. J. Guinan, of Levin, have satisfied the examiners in an examination held on behalf of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London, in Wellington in December last, as to their competence to discharge the duties of a sanitary inspector under the Public Health Act.

Mr. C. M. Pemberton, the American scientist, has arrived at Sydney from New Guinea, where he has been engaged in research for the past year (states a Press Association message). He has discovered a parasite which destroys mosquitoes. A number of parasites are being taken to Honolulu, where their progeny will be released. The Rev. Hector N. McLean has been appointed lecturer, preacher and organiser of the New Zealand Bible League. Dr. McLean is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, and held an appointment at New Brighton, states the “Otago Dally Times." In Canada, where he laboured for many years, he established a splendid record as a successful pastor and evangelist. The Rev. G. E. Moreton, who will leave on Saturday next for England in charge of the Dunedin contingent of Boy Scouts, was tendered a farewell by a number of friends in the Mayor’s room at the Dunedin Town Hall on Friday, last., The Mayor (Mr. R. S. Black), in presenting Mr. Moreton with a token of esteem from those present, paid a tribute to the excellent work done by him on behalf of the social services of the city. Mr. John Alexander Lennie died at his residence in Miramar on Sunday at the age of 83. The late Mr. Lennie was born at Lauder Barnes, jn Scotland, his father being a farmer. He arrived in Wellington in 1872 after a voyage of 120 days in the Queen Bee. After farming in Hawke’s Bay, the late Mr. Lennie entered the grocery business, from which he retired only eight years ago. He leaves one son, Mr. C. D. Lennie, of Island Bay, five grandchildren, and a sister who resides in Edinburgh.