PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 184, 2 May 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ministerial, Tim Hon. E. A. Ransom. Minister of Lands, ret-nrned to ■Wellington from Dannevirke yesterday afternoon. Mr. H. Atmore, M.P. for Nelson, is visiting Wellington. Sir James Parr has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank. Captain J. Greeve Watson, of the staff of the Union Steam Ship Company, who has been on sick leave, returned to Wellington by the Monowai yesterday. Mr, T. Romain, claims manager of the North Island Motor Union Mutual Insurance Company, returned by the Monowai yesterday after spending a month’s holiday- in New South Wales. Mr. T. W. Rowe, works superintend ent of John Sands, Ltd.. Sydney, is a through passenger on the Maunganui, which arrived yesterday from San Francisco. Mr. Rowe has been on >1 business trip to California.

Mr. F. W. G. MeLepd. of New Plymouth, adjudicator at Ihe Queensland Band and Solo Championships, returned to New Zealand yesterday by the Monowai. He is staying at The Mansions.

Mr. V. N. Hubble, Assistant Crown Prosecutor at Auckland, and Mrs. Hubble, returned by the Maunganui yesterday after a holiday trip to Tahiti. They left for Auckland lasi evening.

Sergeant-Major J. S. King has taken up the position of instructor at the General Headquarters small arms school at Trentham. having been promoted from the New Plymouth staff of the Defence Department. SergeantMajor King is well known as a Rugby football referee, having controlled a number of important fixtures. The Hon. William T’tigi. Premier and Prince Consort of Tonga. arrived from Sydney by the mail steamer Niagara at Auckland yesterday, am! will spend several days in Auckland. II<! has been absent from Tonga for several months. After spending Christmas and New Year in New Zealand, he left for Australia, where he spent two months. On April 21 his sister-in-law. Princess Fusila Bala, of Tonga, died in Sydney. Her body was embalmed and was brought across by the Niagara, on route to Tonga.