PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Postmaster-General (Hon. J. B. Donald) left for the north last evening.

Sir George Fowlds left for Auckland 1; t night.

Sir George Elliot and Mr. O. Nicholson, of the Bank of New Zealand directorate, returned to Auckland last night.

Mr. H. G. Shakes, who has been appointed district manager of the Public Trust Office at Te Kuiti, left Wellington yesterday to take up his new position.

Mr. D. G. Clark, C.8.E., has been elected to fill the vacancy on the New Zealand Council of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John, caused by the death of Mr. James Burnett, 0.8. E.

Mr. S. W. Edwards, secretary of the Australasian Performing Right Association, who has been on a business visit to New Zealand, left by the Manama yesterday on his return to Sydney. The Rev. S. M. Kempthorne, vicar of Polia ngina. has been appointed by the Board of Nominations to the parish of Karori and Makara, and will succeed the Rev. G. Y. Woodward, who has been appointed vicar of All Saints', Palmerston North. After a short illness contracted since his return from China, where he proceeded as master of the Union Company’s old steamer Kittawa, Captain R. D. Cooper, R.N.R., passed away at Motueka yesterday. The late Captain Cooper was formerly employed by the British India Steam Navigation Company, but retired at an early age, and made his home in New Zealand. He was a keen yachtsman, and last year was appointed Commodore of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club.