PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 260, 30 July 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Viscount and Viscountess Melville arrived in Wellington by the Limited express yesterday, and will sail for England by the lonic on Saturday. Sir James Gunson, who has been on a business visit to California, returned by the Maunganui yesterday after an absence from the Dominion of three months. He will leave for Auckland to-night The Bishop of Polynesia (Right Rev. Dr. Kempthorne) returned from a visit to the Cook Islands by the Maunganui yesterday. He will leave Auckland for Suva by the Niagara on August 27. Mr. Justice Kennedy is in Christchurch. Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Director-Gen-eral of Hfenlth, and Mrs. Valintine are at present in Christchurch. Mri'C. A. R. Brunt, of the Christchurch staff of the National Bank, will leave shortly on transfer to the National Bank. London. The Rev. Harold Sharp, now in charge of the Linwood, and Richmond Methodist Churches, Christchurch, has accepted an invitation to the superintendency of the Lower Hutt Methodist Circuit. Mr. A. E. Mander, who for the last nine years has been lecturer to the - W.E.A. for Victoria University College, has resigned this position with a view to accepting another appointment at the conclusion of the present session. Mr. W. H. Montgomery arrived from San Francisco by the Maunganui yesterday. Mr. W. Cathro, managing director of the Waiter Cathro Proprietary Ltd., Sydney, and director of Cathro Rushbrook Company Ltd., Wellington, is a through passenger to Sydney .by the Maunganui after an extended business visit to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cathro are also through passengers for Sydney. Mr. L. Skeet, of the Napier oflice of the Uhion Steam Ship Company, who had been relieving Mr. J. Pilcher in the Vancouver office, returned by the Maunganui from San Francisco. He was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. A. R. Skeet.

Mr. S. F. Seargeant, a director of Messrs. Uliathorne Hartridge, returned by the Maunganui yesterday after a business tour abroad.

Mr. McHardy Forman, local managing director of General Motors (N.Z.) Ltd., returned from New York by the Maunganui yesterday. The Hon. V. H. Reed, M.L.C., returned to Wellington yesterday. The Rev. L. N. Watkins, who arrived from England by the .Ruahine last week, will spend some weeks in Wellington, prior to sailing to Hong-Kong, wlierfe he has been appointed to a chaplaincy. A resolution expressing sympathy with the widow of the late Mr. E. Y. Redward. was carried at the annual 'meeting of the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association last night. Mr. G. N. Goldie said that the late Mr. Redward was one of the old-timers on the association, one who worked very hard when supporters were scarce. The meeting also carried a resolution of sympathy with Mt. G. Henderson in the loss of his mother.