PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 57, 30 November 1934, Page 10

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. presided at a meeting of the Executive Council at. Government House yesterday morning. Lady Bledisloe was the guest yesterday afternoon of a large gathering of women in Wellington arranged by the National Council of Women in fhe Town Hall. To-day the Governor-General will preside at Government House at the annual meeting of 1 lie Rhodes -Scholarship Selection Committee, which will select the New- Zealand scholars for (lie present year. Ministerial. Tile Hon. C, E. Macmillan. Minister of Agriculture, returned to Wellington from the north by the Limited express yesterday morning-. Sir Robert Anderson, Invercargill, was ii passenger from Wellington Loin the south last evening. .. Sir George Elliot aud Mr. Oliver Nicholson, directors of the Bank of New Zealand, who have been visiting Wellington, left last evening for the north.

Rear-Admiral F. Burges Watson, eoinnioijore commanding tlie New Zealand Division of tlie Royal Navy left Wellington for the north last evening. The Hou. I’. Collier, Premier of Western Australia, accompanied by bis private secretary, Mr. R. 11. Dotg. who are touring in New Zealand, leit .Wellington last evening for the south. Dr. A. R. Thorne tlie newly-appoint-ed superintendent of tlie Wellington Hosnital. was welcomed' by members of the. board last evening. Dr. T. D- M- Stout left Wellington for tlie south last evening. Mr. W. G. Rees-Jones, Wellington, left yesterday for tlie north. Dr. J. R. Boyd. Wellington, left for the south last evening. Mr. I’. Hume. Christchurch, was a passenger last evening for the south. Mr. C. Clabburn left Wellington for (lie north last evening. Mr. It. 11. Nesbitt. Australian Trade Commissioner, left Wellington tor rhe south last evening.

Mr. C. J- Ronaldson. Christchurch, was a passenger for the south from Wellington last evening. I’rofessoi - J. Shelley, of Canterbury University College, arrived at, Wellington from the south yesterday morning.

Mr. S. N. Ziman, M.A.. M.Sc., of Cambridge, who is one of the Rliodes Scholilrship selection committee is visiting Wellington.

Mr. It. C. Addison, inspector of the Bank of New South W’ales in New Zealand, who is returning from England witli’ Mrs. Addison, arrived at Fremantle in the Oraina last. Sunday, and is expected to arrive at Wellington on December 18.

Mr. S. W. Jameson, Christchurch, lias been appointed by the management committee of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association to act as a delegate to the Council of tlie New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association in Wellington.

Mr. C. H. Burson, Christchurch, lias been returned unopposed as president of tlie Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association for tlie coming year. He has been a member of the association’s executive for ten years. Mr. H. H. Rodd, the new manager ef the Christchurch branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd., Ims arrived at Christcliurch to take up ins duties. He will replace Mr. R. H. J. Ctmini, wlio will leave for Australia lo take up Ihe iippoiiitment of manager of tlie Adelaide branch of the bank. Mr. Rodd was formerly the manager ef tlie branch bank at Prahran, a Melbourne suburb. This is his first visit to New Zealand. Mr. Rodd started his blinking career at Ballarat, and in tlie last eighteen years has been stationed in offices in four of the Australian States —Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.