PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 53, 26 November 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. Her Excellency Lady Bledisloe returned from the South yesterday, and his Excellency is expected to arrive on Saturday morning. Lord and Lady Bledisloe will remain in residence at Wellington until after Christmas. To-day, at Christchurch, his Excellency will be installed as Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of New Zealand. The Hon'. E. A. Ransom, Acting-Prime Minister, who is resting in Dannevirke on account of illness, was reported yesterday to have shown an improvement in health. The Hon. W. A. Veitch, Minister of Railways, returned from Auckland by train yesterday morning. The Hon. W. B. Taverner, Minister of Public Works, who is visiting Dunedin, will return to Wellington to-morrow morning. The Hon. A. J. Murdoch, Minister of Agriculture, will return from the North to-morrow morning. f The Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs, who has been visiting the South,, is expected to return to Wellington about Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Duff, of Sydney, are at the Royal Oak Hotel. Lady Findlay was an arrival on the Ulimaroa from Sydney yesterday. Dr. E. H. Cunningham, of Palmerston North, is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Newey, of Birmingham, England, are staying at the Royal, Oak Hotel. Messrs. L. A. Saunders and E. H. Lockry, both of Sydney, are at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. J. Redmond, of Wellington, who' has been in Australia for eighteen months, returned by the- Ulimaroa dayMr. C. Luke,/manager in Wellington for Briscoe and Co., has left on a holiday to be spent in touring the South Island. Mr. and Mrs. W. Crawford Burt, of Khandallah, returned from a holiday spent in Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday. . ■ Mr. Clifford Oswald Bell, solicitor, of Wellington, was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court yesterday by Mr. Justice Ostler, on the motion of Mr. M. F. Grogan. Mr. Bates, formerly of Bates and Lees, and an old member of the Wellington Bowling Club, . arrived here yesterday from Sydney by. the Ulimaroa. Mr. Bates has been in business in Tunbridge (Kent) since the Great War. Messrs. A. Ibbotson, F. G. Hudson,'and W. W. King, of Dunedin; H. B. Coupe,' PUtaruru; P. Lewis, E. Forlong, and T. Burnet, Wanganui; A. G. Tizard, Blenheim; and J. G. L. Hewitt, Marton, are at the Royal Oak Hotel. Messrs. E. Griffin, W. Jeffrey, W. Kirkham, and V. Blanc, of Auckland; G. Cottle, Wanganui; R. Newman, Nelson; A. Coleman, Stratford; G. B. Richardson, Picton; and C. P. Hulme, Blenheim, are guests at the Grand Hotel. Lord Barnby, a member of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and of the Federation of British Industries, a diree-' tor of Lloyd’s Bank, Ltd., and chairman of the Wool Textile delegation, has, consented to deliver an address at the Wellington Chamber of Commerce luncheon on December 8. Dr. Ralph Noble, of Sydney, who represented the Commonwealth at the first International Congress on Mental Hygiene, recently held at Washington, will arrive in Wellington by the Makura from San Francisco on December 15. Dr. Noble also represented the New Zealand Council of Mental Hygiene at the conference. It is understood that Dr. Noble will, if possible, give an address in Wellington, illustrated by lantern slides, on “Modern Mental Hospital Development and Modern Treatment.” Mr. R. G. Hatton, Director of the East Maling Fruit Research Station and the Imperial Bureau of Fruit Production, had a, hearty reception from the delegates to a Dominion conference of fruitexporters in. Wellington yesterday. Mr. Hatton, who briefly addressed the gathering and spent some little time listening to its deliberations, said he welcomed the opportunity of expressing appreciation of the overwhelpiing welcome he and his wife •had received since their arrival in New Zealand. He was fortunate in having Dr. G H. Cunningham (mycologist to the Department of Agriculture) as his guide, philosopher and friend. Mr Hatton left for Nelson last evening;