PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ministerial. The Hon. J. Bitchener, Minister of Public Works, returned to Wellington from the South Island yesterday morning. Bishop Liston was among the passengers from rhe south yesterday morning. Mr. G. W. Clinkard returned to Wellington yesterday morning from the south. Senior-Sergeant Butler, of Christchurch, who has been critically ill in hospital, is showing signs of improvement. Major-General W. L. IL SinclairBurgess has returned to Wellington from the South Island. Mr. R. Girling Butcher was among the passengers yesterday morning from the south. Dr. Douglas Gibbs, of Edinburgh, is paying a. flying visit to New. Zealand, and is staying with bls uncle, Mr. R. W. Gibbs, at Karori. The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice, will leave Wellington on May 9 to preside at. the Hawke's Bay Adjustment Court sitting at Napier. Mr. J. A. Campbell, Director of Horticulture, who has been indisposed for two or three weeks, is now recovering, and it is expected that, he will be able to resume duty in about ten days’ time. Mr. J. Y. Walls, of the Wellington Technical College staff, lias been elected as the secondary schools’ representative on the council of the New Zealand Football Association. The Rev. W. Bramwell Scott, who is a chaplain to the forces, will leave by to-day’s Napier express to attend camp with the Manawatu Mounted Rifles at Waipukurau. Tie will return to Wellington on May 13. Mr. W. IT. P. Barber, vice-president of the New Zealand Woollen Mill Owners’ Association, returned from Christchurch by the ferry steamer yesterday morning, after presiding at. a conference of the association in reference to tariff matters.

Captain J. Geere Watson, of the Union Company's Waikouaiti, who recently underwent a major operation at: the North Shore Hospital, Sydney, arrived here by the Monowai on Monday in company with Mrs. Watson. It is now six weeks since Hie operation, and Captain Watson is gradually regaining his strength.