PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C.. returned from Auckland by the Limited express yesterday. Mr. T. H. Lbe and Mr. XV. Jones. Reefton. and Mr. 11. R. Ponder, Christchurch, are at the Royal Oak Hotel. Col. R. St. J. Beere went to the South Island last evening. He exneets to return to Wellington at the week-end. Sir Harold Beauchamp and Lady Beauchamp were passengers to Auckland by the Limited express last night. Mr. W. A. Scott, of Oriental Parade, will leave by the Mekura on Tuesday next on a health-recruiting visit to Tahiti. Mr. A. Leigh Hunt has been appointed chairman of the Wellington branch of the English-Speaking Union for the seventh, time. Canon Staples Hamilton, vicar of St. Albans, Christchurch, proposes to retire at the end of the vear. He has spent his whole ministry, 49 years, in the Christchurch diocese, receiving his canonry in 1913.

Mr. S. P. Carey. Christchurch: Mr. R. F. Smith, Greymouth; Mr. H. Luke, Mr. J. Hampton, and Mr. A. Crum. Auckland : Mr. P. E. Stainton. New Plymouth; and Mr. J. Lythgoe, Dunedin, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. A. M. Chivers. Mr. C. M. Olliver, Mr. V. E. Ilraun, and Mr. M. Ralph, Christchurch: Mr. W. M. Tapp. Palmerston North ; Mr. E. A. Craig and Mr. J. Pound. Auckland ; and Mr. D. Croll. Batavia. rre at the Hotel St. George. Mr. George Baililon, formerly mayor of Auckland, who retired to take up the position of New Zealand representative of D. J. McCallum, Ltd., Edinburgh, whisky distillers, is at present in Wellington with Mr. J. K. Carruthers, the Australian representative. Mr. Bnildon and Mr. Carruthers will tour the Dominion visiting the various agents of the com®aii£a