PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Labour (Hon. W. A. Veitch) returned to Wellington yesterday from Wanganui. The Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) will return to Wellington today from Nelson. The Minister of Customs (Hon. J. B. Donald) left Wellington for Auckland last night. The Minister of Public Works (Hon. E. A. Ransom) will return to Wellington to-day from Gisborne. The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Hon. Sir Charles Statham) is visiting Wellington. Their Honours Sir Alexander Herdman and Mr. Justice Smith, arrived from Auckland morning by the limited express. The Right Rev. Monsignor McKenna, of Masterton, was taken ill on Friday i last, and his condition is causing some anxiety. The Hon. E. W. Allison, M.L.C., came to Wellington on the limited express yesterday morning. Mr. W. A. Tanner, Censor and Registrar of Kinematograph Films, is in the South Island, and during his absence Mr. W. A. von Heisenberg, Assistant Censor and Registrar, is carrying out his duties. Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, M.P. for Waitomo, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. Mr. D. W. Miller, of the staff of the National Bank. Wellington, will leave by the Maunganui on Friday for Sydney. to connect with the Oronsay for an extended tour of England and the Continent. Mr. A. T. Hart, of the photographic division of the publicity branch of the railways, was presented by his fellowofficers with a set of cutlery on the occasion of his approaching marriage. Mr. G. G. Stewart, publicity manager, made the presentation on behalf of the staff. Sir Jehangir Kothari, 0.8. E., of Karachi, Sind,’ India, arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday on a holiday visit to New Zealand. Mr. B. Tucker, retired banker and oil magnate, Dr. O. J. Monson and Mr. E. Stoddard, of California, are' through passengers to Sydney by the Makura which arrived from San Francisco yesterday. They will attend the Third Pacific Rotary Conference at Sydney. Mr. F. Waller, ' president of the Pau-Pacific Oil Company, California, arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. He is on his way to the Far East on a mission for Guatemala for which country he is Consul-General in California. lie is accompanied by Mr. C. Richards, of the Pan-Pacific Oil Company. Mr. H. McPhail, a prominent business man of Sydney, is returning to Australia by the Makura which arrived from San Francisco yesterday. Professor S. Angus, lecturer in New’ Testament studies at St. Andrew’s College, Sydney University, is a through passenger by the Makura, which arrived from San Francisco yesterday. He is accompanied by Mrs. Angus. Mr. W. Aims, a prominent business man of Boston, United States, arrived from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday. He is accompanied by Mrs. Aims. They intend to spend a holiday in New Zealand. »

Mr. F. W. Humphreys, of Oamaru, returned from San Francisco by the Makura yesterday, accompanied by his wife. ■ He was formerly manager for the Union Steam Ship Conipany at Oamaru, and he has been on a pleasure trip to America. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blundell will leave on a trip to England at the end of the month.

Miss K. Nunueley, and Messrs. F. H. Woodward. G. N. Goldie, J. C. Peacock and M. E. Denniston were elected honorary life members of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association at the quarterly meeting of the Council last evening. These are the first honorary life memberships which the Association has conferred, and thq recipients have all made outstanding contributions to Dominion tennis. Mr. R. L.-Andrew, of the staff of the Dominion Laboratory, has been notified of his appointment to succeed Mr. W. Donovan to the position of Assistant Dominion Analyst. Mr. Andrew was born at Thames and was educated at the Thames High School and the Thames School of Mines. At the latter he won a School of Mines University Scholarship. In 1903 he joined the staff of the Mines Department Laboratory. This was later attached to the Department of Internal Affairs as the Dominion Laboratory, and in 1926 was incorporated in the new Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr. Andrew Ims specialised in the analysis of foods, particularly milk. Last year he published an important paper on the freezing-point method for the detection of water in milk. During the last two years he has carried the chemical work required in an Investigation on the incidence of goitre in school children and its relation to the amount of iodine in spils and waters. This Chemical work was of a particularly delicate nature and involved a critical examination of the methods used for detecting minute amounts of iodine. Mr. Andrew is a Fellow of the Chemical Society, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland.