PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 34, 4 November 1929, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. M. Dennehy, Assistant-General Manager of Railways, arrived from the south by the Maori on Saturday morning. Mr. A. H. Kemball, Under-Secretary of Mines, is at present in Christchurch. Sir Truby King will leave for Auckland this evening.

Major-General R. Young, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces, will leave for Dunedin to-night, and will return to Christchurch towards the end of the week. Mr. R. E. Diedrich, of the head office, Wellington, has taken up a position as clerk in the Supreme Court office in Christchurch.

Mr. David' H. Graham has been appointed biologist to the board of the Portobello Marine Fisheries Investigation Station, Otago. Mr. Graham has for three years been conducting mosquito research in Auckland. He will take up his new duties on January 1. Commander C. E. Hotham, D.S.C., who is to take over the command of H.M.S. Laburnum from Commander F. N. Attwood, whose term of service in New Zealand waters is expiring, arrived at Auckland by the Rangitiki last Friday from England. He is a first cousin to Rear-Admiral A, G. Hotham, who was commodore in command of the New Zealand Squadron 1921-23. Born in 1891, the son of Colonel John Hotham, late Royal Artillery, he joined the Navy as a midshipman in 1906 and attained the rank of commander in 1926. Among his appointments was that of navigating officer of the destroyer Lark and latterly chief executive officer of the St. Vincent, training ship for boys at Gosport Hearty congratulations on the elevation of his fellow-Minister, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, as King’s Counsel were extended by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle), when opening the Hutt Trotting Club’s new track and grandstand prior to the commencement of the meeting on Saturday. Mr. Wilford, he said, was a thorough sport in every sense of the word, and had been a worthy representative of the Hutt in Parliament for very many years. He was, in fact, the “Father of the House,” having the longest continuous service of any member. He was always keen to do what was right, and his sound advice and impartiality was appreciated by all. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Corkill and Miss Jessie Corkill, Oriental Bay, who have been on an extended tour of the British Isles and the Continent, returned to New Zealand by the Rangitiki and arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Saturday. Mr. G. L. Petersen, advance manager for Wirth Bros’. Circus, arrived by the Manuka yesterday to make arrange-' ments for a tour of New Zealand. Mr. E. E. D. Clarke, of Melbourne, well known in racing circles as the owner of the Melbourne Cup winner Trivalve and other good horses, arrived in Wellington by the Manuka yesterday. Mr. Clarke is a keen fisherman and spends an annual holiday at this sport in New Zealand. Even when Trivalve was winning the greatest handicap of the Empire Mr. Clarke was taking his pleasures quietly beside a New Zealand stream. A recent issue of the Melbourne “Argus” reports a presentation by the head office staff of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Limited to Mr. W. A. Martin, A.1.A., on the occasion of his leaving Melbourne to take over the management of the association’s New Zealand branch. Mr. Martin, it is stated, entered the service of the association in 1904. Serving as captain with the A.I.F. in the Great War, he had a distinguished record and was awarded the Military Cross. Mr. Martin was a passenger by the Manuka, which arrived in Wellington yesterday, and assumes the management of the National Mutual forthwith in succession to Mr. F. W. Nicholson, J.P., who has now retired.