PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Ostler will leave Wellington op Monday to preside over the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Napier and Gisborne. Sir Bruce Stewart, of Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, returned by the Rangitiki to Auckland yesterday from a six months trip abroad. He is accompanied by Lady Stewart. Archdeacon F. G. Evans, of New Plymouth. Archdeacon of Taranaki and Vicar-General of the Waikato Diocese, has been seriously ill, but is stated to be improving. Mr. N. K. Lamport, who was captain of the Australian Universities Rugby football team which visited New Zealand last season, has been selected as a Rhodes scholar for New South Wales.

Mr. A. W. Watters, who has been Official Assignee in Bankruptcy at Christchurch, for some years past, has left for Auckland oh transfer. It is not known yet when his successor, Mr. Robertson, formerly Official Assignee at Hamilton, will take over in Christchurch.

.Mr. Edmund S. Paul. Sydney, chairman of directors of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Limited, Senator J. D. Millen, deputychairman. and Mr. J. R. Kirk, Gisborne, New Zealand director of the association, who have been on a brief visit to Wellington, have left for the north.

A British Official Wireless message states that Lord Carson has resigned his office as Lord of Appeal. Mr. P. J. Borthwick, of the firm of Thomas Borthwick and Sons. London, arrived at Auckland by the Rangitiki yesterday on a business trip to the Dominion. - He expects to remain in New Zealand for about 18 months. The Rev. E. V. Gerard, a New Zealander, who has spent the past two and a half years in work among poor boys at Barking, in the East End of London, arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Rangitiki from London with his wife and family on his way to Pahiatua, where he has been appointed vicar.

Another young New Zealand aspirant for the Royal Air Force sailed by the Raranga on Thursday from Auckland, Mr. J. Annesley Hankins, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hankins, of Wellington. Mr. Hankins served for five years with A Company, Wellington Regiment, and held the rank of sergeant in that unit. He carries with him an excellent record of service. Mr. J. A. Carpenter, general manager in New Zealand for Burns, Philp and Company, Ltd., will leave by the Marama on November 8 to join his brother’s business as managing director of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., general merchants, plantation and ship owners, of Sydney, and the Pacific Islands. Mrs. Carpenter and family will leave at a later date. The Rev. A. R. H. Morris, until lately curate in charge of St. Barnabas, Reading, Berkshire, arrived at Auckland by the Rangitiki from London yesterday to take up the post of vicar of the parochial district of Taupo, in the Diocese of IVaiapu.