PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 163, 7 April 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. G. 11. Mackley, General Manager of Railways, returned from the south yesterday morning after a tour of inspection of the South Island lines. The Rev. Father P. J. Smyth, parish priest at Thorndon, who has been indisposed for a month past, is at present recuperating at Rotorua. The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes has accepted the offer of the Bishop of Christchurch of appointment as a a lay member of the Cathedral Chapter in succession to Dr. William Irving.

Mr. T. H. Easdown, manager of the Auckland branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, who has been on a visit to England, left for New Zealand, via Australia, by the Oranta on March 3. Professor E. F. D'Atli, of the University of Otago, left Dunedin on Tuesday, bound for Sydney. At Canberra he will attend the Cancer Convention, which has been convened by the Commonwealth Government. He expects to return in about three weeks. Mr. 11. L. Dawson, of Auckland, has been successful in his application for a short service, commission in the Royal Air Force. and was to start on March 16. Grantham. Lincolnshire, will be his training base. At tlie termination of his six years’ service. Mr. Dawson hopes to return to Auckland.