PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 77, 24 December 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, arrived at Auckland yesterday morning accompanied by Major A. H. Bathurst, military secretary, and Mr. A. C. Day, official secretary, and made his headquarters at the Northern Club. This morning his Excellency will meet his sister, Mrs. Vaughan Hughes, who will arrive with her husband, Captain Vaughan Hughes, by the Rangitiki, accompanied by Lady Norah Jellicoe and Sir Francis and Lady Colchester Weinyss. They will leave by train this evening in order to spend Christmas in Wellington. The Hon. E. A. Ransom, Acting-Prime Minister, will Rave for Dannevirke this morning for the Christmas arid New Year vacation. Mr. Lionel Lumb, Dunedin, is at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. J. Ashton, of Auckland, is staying at the Hotel St. George. Mr. Edward Tomkies, of England, is a guest at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. J. H. Duncan, of Dunedin, is registered at the Hotel St. George. Mr. W. Waddel, superintendent of Stae Advances, left yesterday for Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Neill, of Dunedin, arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Major John Mounsey, of Palmerston North, shows a slight improvement after his recent operation.

Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Patterson, of Colombo, are visiting Wellington and are staying at the Hotel St. George. Mr. F. C. Wood, general manager in Sydney of the Canadian Government Line, arrived by the Ulimaroa yesterday to spend the holidays in New Zealand.

Cabled advice has been received by Mr. T. F. Watson that his daughter, Marion, who has been studying music in London, has gained her L.R.A.M. degree. Mr. I. H. Don Miller, a well-known Auckland .cricketer and sports director and secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association there, is visiting his parents at Khandallah. Mr. L. S. Drake, chief traffic inspector for the Wellington City Corporation, arrived back from a trip to England by the Ulimaroa yesterday. . Mr. Drake was accompanied by his wife. Mr. J. F. Black, of the chief accountant’s office of the New Zealand Railways, was met by his fellow-officers yesterday, on the eve of his approaching marriage, and presented with a chiming clock. Messrs. W. E. D. Bishop, of Christchurch, J. M. Samson, A. T. Milne, and J. Black, of Dunedin, and E. Marsack and O. P. Lindegreu, of Palmerston North, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. A. T. Trnversi, F.1.A., F.C.A.S., formerly New Zealand Government In surance Commissioner, has been elected president of the Actuarial Society of Australasia. Professor J. Rankine Brown, of Victoria University College, has been elected to the vacancy on the Academic Board of the University of New Zealand caused by the resignation of Professor D. M. Y. Sommerville. Mr. F. W. Roffe, superintendent of the Wellington Free Ambulance, arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Ulimaroa, accompanied by Mrs. Roffe. They have been on a holiday trip to Australia. Dr. R. Marsdeu, permanent secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, who has been iu England during the last few months, will arrive back in New Zealand toward the end of February. He will go to the United States first to visit the Bureau of Standards, and to investigate certain fuel problems. Mrs. Marsden has already left England by the Riiahine.

Sir John MacFarland, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, and Dr. W. S. Littlejohn, principal of Scotch College, Melbourne, arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney yesterday on a fishing trip to New Zealand. They left for the south last evening. Both have considerable experience of New Zealand fishing, particularly Sir John confessed that he had ci.f- .u’st trout in one of the streams leading into Lake Wakatteu ia 1881 a