PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 200, 21 May 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ministerial. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, Prime Minister, addressed n meeting at Otahuhu, near Auckland, last evening. He Will leave Auckland by train this evening. spending to-morrow morning in Feildiug and arriving in Wellington early in the evening.

' The Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Lands, left for the north by train last evening to address a meeting in the Hnuritki electorate this evening in support of tlie United Party candidate, Mr. E. Allan. He will be away for some days. The Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle. Minister of Internal Affairs. returned to Wellington from the south yesterday morning.

The Hon. 11. Atmore, Minister of Education, will visit Palmerston North today. He will carry out investigations concerning the Central School building, a brick structure which hns been vacated owing to earthquake risks. The Hon. A. J. Murdoch. Minister of Agriculture, opened the Whakatane show yesterday. It is probable that lie will speak later in the United Party interests in the Haiiraki by-election campaign.

The Hon. W. B. Taverner, Minister of Public XVorks. visited the XVaitaki hydro-electric works in the South Island yesterday. He later went on to Dunedin. The Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Defence, left for Feilding yesterday. He will be there to-morrow to meet the Prime Minister on his visit to the district, returning to Wellington next week. The Hon. R. Masters. Minister without portfolio, left. Stratford yesterday for Auckland.

Mi-. E. Riddiford lias returned from a trip to Rotorua. Mr. C. P. Tripe left for the south by the Wahine Inst night. Commissioner J. Cunningham, of the Salvation Army, returned to Wellington by the Limited express yesterday. Major-General W. L. 11. Sinclair-Bur-gess, Commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces, left for the north by the Limited express last evening. Mr. Robert C. Ross will leave by the Marama to-morrow on a trip to the Old Country, returning in November.

Dr. D. Y. M. Sommerville is to represent the New Zealand Institute at the Michael Faraday and James C. Maxwell centenary celebrations in London this year. Dr. E. Kidson, Government Meteorologist, and Dr. D. Miller, entomologist at the Cnwthron Institute, were elected Fellows of the New Zealand Institute yesterday.

Mr. J. A. Redpath, Christchurch ; Mr. G. Merewether, and Mr. W. G. Bignell, Wanganui; and Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, Christchurch, are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. A. Grayson, Mr. G. J. Lovegrove and Mr. G. M. White, Auckland; Mr. , A. V. Smith. Christchurch; and Dr. Stanley Wallis, Rotorua, are staying at th? Hotel St. George. Dr. J. A. D. Mulholland, of Wellington, who has been on a trip abroad, returned by the Port Fairy, which arrived at Auckland on Monday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mulholland and Misses F. and C. Mulholland. Mr. W. 11. Wynyard, Auckland; Mr. A. E. Jail, M.P.. Waipawa ; Mr. and Mrs. .1. W. Trolove, Marlborough; Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Fox and Mr. A. R. Ponder, Christchurch; and Mr. .1. G. Alexander, Dunedin, are nt the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. George Fraser, after acting as president of the Auckland Ironmasters’ Association for 22 years, lias recently retired from the office. lie was farewelled by members of the association at a social evening and presented with an illuminated address. Professor P. AV. Burbidge, professor of physics at the Auckland University College, has been granted leave from November, 1931, until January. 1933. Dr. D. Brown, lecturer in physics, is to act as head of the department during Professor Burbidge’s absence. Mr. Kenneth Erampton. who has resigned his position of produced for the Auckland Little Theatre Society, left by the Aorangi for Sydney. He liopes Io make a talking picture in London and is also considering making a tour of Now Zealand ami Australia with a professional company.

Mr. E. 11. Williams, who for many years has been one of the principal figures in legal circles of Hawke’s Bay, has taken up his residence in the Bay of Plenty district, having retired from practice. Laudatory reference to Mr. Williams’s valued interest in civic and national affairs was made at the meeting of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce when regret was expressed that his departure being unannounced had prevented some public recognition being given of his services to the town. Mr. Williams was the donor of the cricket trophy the Heathcote Williams Shield,