PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 248, 15 July 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ministerial. The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, will represent the Government at the civic farewell to the New Zealand hockey team to tour Australia at the Town Hall at noon to-day: The Hon. A. Hamilton, Acting-Mini-ster of Employment, received a deputation from the Wairarapa Unemployed Workers’ Council yesterday, ar.d another from Wellington relief workers. Both were heard in private, members of the Unemployment Board being present. Sir Truby King has returned to Wellington from a trip to Rotorua. Mr. F. W. Gibbs has been appointed a member of the Nelson Land Board. Mr. M. A. Eliott has been appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. N Mr. H. G. Livingstone, of Christchurch, will arrive in Wellington by this morning’s ferry steamer. The Rev. J. K. Archer, of "Christchurch, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the south. Mr. A. E. Ansell, M.P. for Chalmers, was a passenger by yesterday morning’s ferry steamer from the south. Mr. H. Holland, M.P. for Christchurch North, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the south. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, 0.8. E., Undersecretary of Internal Affairs, has been appointed Clerk of the Writs for New Zealand. Commander Bashford, a visitor to New Zealand from the Old Country, is leaving for Vancouver, en route to England, by the Niagara. Mr. G. A. Amundsen has been appointed managing secretary of the Wanganui-Rai gltikei Electric Power Board for a probationary period of six months.

Mr. Stronach Paterson’s appointment as honorary consul for Denmark at Wellington has been provisionally recognised, and a Gazette notice to this effect was issued last evening. Dr. L. Cockayne, C.M.G., F.R.S., of Wellington, has been elected an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Germany. This is an addition to the many world-wide recognitions of Dr. Cockayne’s work for the advancement of horticulture. Mr. J. W. Kerridge, of Nelson; Mr. A. 11. Ponder, Christchurch; Mr. B. Canning and Mr. J. Milner-Gibson. Napier; and Mr. T. F. Relling, Palmerston North, are at the Royal Oak Hotel.

The Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, of •Christchurch, President of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, will proceed to-day to Hastings to dedicate the new Methodist Church which replaces the one destroyed by the earthquake last year. He will subsequently visit a number of churches in the Hawke’s Bay, South Auckland, and Mauawatu districts. Mr. Rugby Pratt met the Methodist ministers of Wellington yesterday. Mr. R. Hudson, Mr. R. G. Hudson and Mr. J. C. Shand, of Dunedin and , Mr. W. .Macalisier. Invercargill, are at I he Hotel St. George. Dr. D. Miller and Mr. 11. Brownlie, of Nelson; Mr. Norman J. Suckling and , Mr. J. Frew, Christchurch; Mr. H. Slater, Eyre; Mr. E. M. Garrett and Mr. W. A. Phillip, Auckland; and Mr. C. E. Cuming, Hamilton, are at the Grand Hotel.