PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. / The Governor-General and the Lady Bledisloe, accompanied by the Honourable Mrs. Daniell and members of their suite, returned to Wellington yesterday. Their Excellencies attended Divine service at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral In the morning. Mr. Maurice Ralph, concert manager for Messrs. J. and N. Tait, is at present in Wellington making arrangements for the New Zealand tour of the famous singer Galll-Curci. Mr. F. W. M. Stilling, New Zealand representative of the Australian National Travel Association, left for Auckland by the Limited express last night, and will return to Wellington on Saturday morning next. Mr. W. Russell-Wood, of Auckland, arrived in Wellington on Saturday and left by the ferry steamer the same evening for Lyttelton, en route to Ashburton, where he will spend a short holiday before going to Dunedin to adjudicate in the elocutionary sections at the annual Competitions festival. At the conclusion of the Dunedin festival, Mr. Russell-Wood will proceed to Greymouth, where be will also act as adjudicator at the Jubilee festival of the Greymouth Coni petitions Society. Mr. H. M. A. Wood, Mr. 0. Snell, and Mr. I. Woolf. Christchurch; Mr. R. T. Duthie, Dunedin; and Mr. J. H. Dalton. Auckland, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. T. T. Gough, Mr A. Browning, and Mr F. Summerell. Christchurch are at the Royal Oak Hotel. Judge Macormick of the Native Land Court, is at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. J. A. Morris, Melbourne; Mr. G. Spensley and Mr. 11. F. Herbert. Christchurch; Mr. A. M.'McKirdy, Dunedin; Mr. A. C. Hermes, Sydney; and Mr. J. A. Morris, Melbourne, are at the Hotel St. George.