PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 57, 30 November 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Public Works (Hon. E. A. Ransom) will leave for Dannevirke by the Napier- express this morning. He will return to Wellington on Monday night. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. J..G. Cobbe) left for Auckland yesterday. The Minister of Railways (Hon. AV. B. Taverner) will return to. Wellington from the north on Tuesday. The Postmaster-General (Hon. J. B. Donald), who was to have returned to Wellington yesterday, will not now be back until early next week. The Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, Minister of Health, laid the foundation-stone of the Manitoto Hospital at Ranfurly on Thursday, and, after visiting the Waipiata Sanatorium yesterday, proceeded to Oamaru (states a Press Association message from Dunedin). .So far the Department of Internal Affairs has no definite information as to the date of arrival in Wellington of Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, now in the Rotorua district. It is not anticipated, however, that he .will ’ arrive here until early in the New Year’.

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

The friends of Sir George Hunter, M.P. for Waipawa, will be pleased to ..know that the progress in his health has been well maintained, and that he was able to enjoy a motor drive the other day. Mr. R. W. Henry, factory representative in New Zealand for Franklin cars and Brockway -trucks, will leave New Zealand next Tuesday on a hurried business trip to New York. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Henry, and expects to be absent for about three or four months.

Mr. p. C. Mazengarb returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Mr. L. Slade, who has for the past two and a half years been station manager at 3YA, Christchurch, has resigned in order to go into private business. He has .been associated with broadcasting in Christchurch since the pioneering days, and successfully managed the amateur station 3AC when conducted by the Christchurch Radio Society, from whom the Radio Broadcasting Company took it over. Two members of the English cricket team, Messrs. E. Bowley and W. Crawford, will arrive in Wellington on Tuesday by the Marama from Sydney. Bowley is reported to be suffering from acute sciatica, and he will consult a specialist immediately on his arrival.

Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Sloggett, who was Director-General of Medical Services to the British Armies in the field during the greater part of the war,! dropped dead while walking with his son near Regent Park, London, states a British official wireless message. He was 72 years of age, and had been suffering from heart trouble.