PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 28, 27 October 1932, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. E. H. Andrews, of Christchurch, is on a visit to Wellington. Mr. C. G. Macindoe, of Auckland, is at the Midland Hotel. Major Ross Parsons, of Canada, is at present a visitor to Wellington. Mr. B. C. Robbins, Mayor of Tauranga, is at present in Wellington and is staying at the Empire Hotel.

Mr. G. F. Roach, Mayor of Hastings, is visiting Wellington and is at the Royal Oak Hotel. Bishop Whyte and Bishop Brodie. Roman Catholic Bishops of Dunedin and Christchurch, respectively, arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday morning and returned last evening. Mr. John Webb, a well-known Queensland grazier, is at present visiting the Franz Josef Glacier. Later he is to tour the North Island, and will then leave for Honolulu and China.

Mr. R. B. Lewis, B.Sc., A.M.1.C.E., who has been acting manager of the Wellington branch of the Hume Pipe Company for some months past, will leave for Sydney by the Zealandia tomorrow on transfer to Singapore, where he was stationed for some years before coming to New Zealand. Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Brock, 0.8. E., V.D., of Madras, secretary of the United Planters’ Association of Southern India, is due to arrive in Wellington next week. He has booked to leave Napier for England by the Tainui. leaving on November 12. Mr. O. H. Gillon, purser of the Maunganui, was taken seriously ili last Saturday while the vessel was bound from Auckland to Sydney, and •was taken to hospital on her arrival at Sydney. Mr. Gillon looked a very sick man when the Maunganui arrived at Wellington last week from Sydney. Mr. Gillon, who is very well known to New Zealand travellers, has the distinction of having served at sea as purser for the record period of 41 years, having been appoimed purser in 1889. For practically the whole of this time he has served in the Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamers, in which he has travelled some 2,000,000 miles, and crossed the Tasman upward of 2000 times.