PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 231, 26 June 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. . His Excellency the Governor-General, with La(Jy Bledisloe and a party from Government House, are to attend the first concert to be given by Mark Hambourg and Peter Dawson to-morrow week at the Town Hall. Mr. R. Orton, Wanganui, and Mr. E. Horrobin, Te Aroha, are at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. J. McLeod. New Plymouth, and Mr. L. Harris, Christchurch, are at the Grund Hotel. Major H. W. Slater, V.D., First Battaliau Hawke's Bay Regiment, has been posted to the retired list. Mr. J. W. G. Brodie, who left for England last January, returned to Wellington by the Mataroa yesterday. Captain J. L. McAlister, M.C., First Battalion Wellington Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of major. Mr. H. Page, resident director for Australia and New Zealand for Messrs. Butterworth, Ltd., is in Wellington. The Hon. Sir R. Heaton _ Rhodes, Christchurch, and the Hon. G. W. Alison, Auckland, are at the Midland Hotel. Sir Edwin Mitchelson and the Hon. E. W. Alison, M.L.C.’s, arrived in Wellington yesterday for the opening of the session. Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., has resigned from the milk committee of the City Council. His place has been taken by Mr. W. Appleton. Mr. J. Cunningham, Christchurch; Mr. H. Knight, Palmerston North; Mr. C. Mclndoe, Mr. H. R. Jones and Mr. J. P. O'Connor, Auckland; Mr. N. Kettle., Napier; Mr. J. C. Bidwell and Mr. A. Tocker, Featherston, are at the Midland Hotel. Lieut.-Colouel G. 11. Bramhall, international auditor for the Salvation Army, arrived in Auckland on the Uliinaroa, and will undertake the triennial audit of the Salvation Army’s accounts in,New Zealand. He has spent 26 years in his present position. Mr. A. Major, Masterton; Mr. R. Bourgeon, France: Mr A. Yarndley and Mr. M. J. Weller, Stratford ; Mr. N. Ar Forgie, Mr. B. H. Webb and Mr. J. A. Redpath, Christchurch; Mr. R. Hudson and Mr. J. FI. Duncan, Dunedin; Mr. C. B. Tapley, Invercargill; Mr. N. Louisson, Auckland, and Mr. H. Griffin, Nelson, are at the Hotel St. George. Dr. R. M. Campbell, M.A., LL.B., Pli D , a former student of Victoria University College, who left New Zealand on a scholarship in 1927,. will return by the Maunganun on Monday. After studying the history of Imperial preference at the London School of Economics,, where he won the United States of America Fellowship, he went to Cornell University Agricultural College, New York. Mr. Colin L. Bailey, M.A., Dip. Edue., has been awarded the James Macintosh Travelling Scholarship in Education, an-I will shortly leave for London, where he will enter King's College. An old boy of Wellington College, he took his degree tn Education with first-class honours, and won a Foundation Scholarship, and a Senior University Scholarship j n J 0 -’’- 24. and at present on the staff oi Wellesley College, he intends to study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy..