PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 48, 19 November 1932, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, who returned from Paekakariki on Thursday afternoon, attended the opera at the Grand Opera House ih the evening. Yesterday morning, his Excellency as Chief Scout for New Zealand opened the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Dominion Boy Scout Council. Mr. D. Reese, of Christchurch, is on a business visit to Wellington. Mr. C. Norton Francis arrived yesterday morning from the south. Archbishop Redwood returned to Wellington yesterday morning after a visit to the South Island. Mr. R. H. Beaumont has been appointed manager of the Wellington branch of McWhannell and Spanjer. Mr. P. S. K. Macassey, who has been retained by the Crown to prosecute the murder charge against Edward Tarrant, of Picton, left for Blenheim yesterday. The Rev. W. H. Orbell and Mr. H. S. J. Goodman were yesterday reelected members of the Council of the New Zealand Section of the Boy Scouts’ Association. Sir Berkeley Sheffield, Bt., London, and Lady Grosvener, who have been staying at the Midland Hotel, have left for a fishing tour of the Taupo district.

Mr. G. A. Green, secretary of the Horticultural Trades and Dominion organiser of the Institute of Horticulture. left for the south last evening on matters connected with the national flower show to be held in Wellington in January.

Commissioner H. Christie, of the Wanganui Boy Scouts, was yesterday presented by his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. at the annual meeting of the Dominion Scouts’ Council, with the medal of merit in recognition of his long and excellent services to the Scout movement.

Mr. A. J. McEldowney, general secretary to the Christchurch Y.M.C.A., who has been spending a holiday in the North Island, > arrived in Wellington yesterday from Auckland. He attended the annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the Boy Scouts’ Association in Wellington and returned to Christchurch by the ferry steamer last night.