PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 148, 20 March 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General. T.vril Bledisloe. has consented to accept election as patron of the New Zealand Brass Bands Association. Ministerial. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, left Christchurch for Wellington last evening. He hopes to return to Christchurch for Easter. The Hon. R. Masters, Minister of Industries and Commerce, will return to Wellington from Stratford this evening. The Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Lauds, will return to Wellington from Dannevirke this evening. Mr. H. H. Brady and Mr. T. Watson have been elected honorary secretary and treasurer resiieetively of the Wellington Apollo Singers. Mr. A. D. Kerr, who has been appointed manager of Messrs. J. Burns and Co., Christchurch, will leave for the south to-morrow evening. Mr. Frank Tait, a director of J. C. Williamson. Ltd., will leave by motorcar for Auckland, via Taranaki, this morning. He is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Tait. Mr. R. L. Curthoys, editor of the Melbourne "Argus,” is a through passenger by the Makura for San Francisco, on the first stage of a journey to Great Britain and Europe. He will be away from Australia for seven months. Mr. J. M. A. Hott, district governor of Rotary for New Zealand, and Mr. •Hope Gibbons, of I he Wellington Rotary Club, will leave for San Francisco today by the Makura for the purpose of attending the Rotary World Convention at Detroit, U.S.A.