PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Reed arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday morning. Mr. H. D. Acland, president of the New Zealand Sheep Owners’ Federation, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the south. Mr. Lester Sinclair, the presentation manager for Amalgamated Theatres, Ltd., who was injured in a motor accident on the Hutt Road (in which Mr. George Smith was killed), is still confined to tlie Wellington Hospital. He is reported to be steadily improving each day.

Mr. Cecil Horn, of the Land and Income Tax Department, who has been transferred to Auckland, was farewejled at Ngaio by some fifty of his friends. On behalf of those present, the Rev. Mr. Cowie presented Mr. Horn with a gold watch, aud wished him success and happiness in his new sphere of duties. Mr. Frank B. Clark, of Christchurch, arrived by the Monterey at Auckland yesterday. A Press Association message says he expressed the opinion that wool prices are likely to remain up, but the New Zealand grower must pay more attention to classing and skirting. He found a general complaint to be of lack of attention to these points. Mr. J. H. Chapman, a member of the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations, and fonnerly of the Customs Department, Wellington, arrived at Auckland yesterday on furlough, states a Press Association message. On the way to the Dominion Mr. Chapman attended the conference of the International Institute of Statistics at Mexico City, at which forty-eight countries were represented. Mr. G. E. Watt, Auckland, a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force, has the distinction of being one out of seven officers who have been awarded tlie special assessment of a distinguished pass. Under tlie scheme recently made available for R.A.F. commissions to university graduates nominated by the Governor-General, Mr. Watt went to England early this year. Mr. C. A. Thompson, manager of the North Dunedin branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has announced his retirement for health reasons. Mr. Thompson was badly burnt about tlie face two years ago by ammonia, which was thrown at him by a man iu an attempt to rob the bank’s branch at North-East Valley, where ho was on duty at the time.