PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, will leave Wellington for the north by the Limited express on Sunday evening. Mr. Macmillan will be in Te Aroha on Monday, and will deliver an address that evening under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce in that town. On Tuesday he will speak at Tauranga, and on Wednesday he will open the winter show at Whakatane. Mr. Macmillan expects to return to Wellington to-morrow week.

Mr. J. S. Hunter, Commissioner of Transport, is visiting Rotorua. The Ven. Archdeacon and Mrs. Fitchett have returned to Dunedin, after a month spent in the North Island. Mr. C. R. Chlsman, joint organising director of the Empire Art Loan Collections Society, will sail by the Rangitata from Auckland to-morrow on his return to London. Mr. Ernest Short, the well-known Wellington baritone, has left Wellington for Christchurch to take up liisresidence there. He has been appointed manager of the Christchurch Winter Gardens.

Mr. R. Priest, the new delegate from the Manawatu sub-committee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, was welcomed to the council of the society by the chairman, Dr. G. F. V. Anson, at last evening’s meeting. Bishop 'West-Watson, of Christchurch, announces that he hopes to be a representative of the Anglican Church in New Zealand at the Ali-Australian Anglican Assembly, which will be held in Melbourne during the time of the centenary celebrations. Mr. H. E. Garth, assistant-manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch, has been granted six weeks’ furlough, part of which time he wili spend at Hanmer Springs. During his absence his duties will be carried out by Mr. J. Mann, accountant. The Rev. G. C. Hedley Bycroft, of Emmanuel Congregational Church, Palmerston North, has received a call to the pastorate of the United Congregational Church, Dunedin. Mr. Hedley Bycroft has had a successful pastorate of eleven years in Palmerston North. Captain F. H. Edge, who has been wharf superintendent for the Union Company at Wellington fop the last nine years, is being transferred to Lyttelton at the end of this month in a similar capacity. Captain T. Bowling, wharf superintendent for the Union Company at Lyttelton for the last seven years, is being transferred to Wellington to take Captain Edge’s place.

Mr. H. T. Armstrong, M.P., national president of the New Zealand Labour Party, has begun a tour of the North Island. He intends to address twen’y meetings in northern towns, and his tour will not be completed until May 29. Towns to be visited are Feilding, Taihape, Ohakune, Waimiha, Matamata, Putaruru, Arapunl, Mamuka, Rotorua, Whakatane, Edgecombe, Tauranga. Thames, Paeroa, Te Aroha, and Hnntly. Captain B. J. Ohlson. R.N.R.. commander of the Royal Mail steamer Strathnaver, aud commodore of the P. and O. fleet, has retired, after 38 years’ service. He will be succeeded in tbe command of tlie Strathnaver by Captain Harrison, formerly commander of the Mooltan. Captain Ohlson joined the P. and O. Company in 4896. and his service was only broken by the war, throughout which he was engaged in secret service, work, and was decorated with the D.S.O. and the Order of Vladimir.

Mr. John Farrell, representative in Auckland for J. Q. Williamson, Ltd., is shortly to take up other duties with the firm in Australia, probably operating between Melbourne and Perth, with headquarters at Adelaide. Mr. Farrell, who is a native of Melbourne, has been connected with tlie Williamson firm for nearly 40 years. He was a member <'f Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in New Zealand nearly half a century ago, and from that went into the business side. He has been associated with the interests of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., aud J. and N. Tait in New Zealand for a quarter of a century, latterly as resident representative in Auckland. Hie date of Mr. Farrell’s departure for Australia is indefinite.