PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Defence, left for Feildiug by the Limited express last evening. To-day the Minister will perform the opening ceremony of the diamond jubilee of the Sanson Methodist Church, and be present at the functions arranged in celebration of that event. Mr. Cobbe will leave Feilding for Auckland by the Limited express to-morrow night on business connected with the departments under his control, and will return to Wellington toward the end of the week. Mr. D. E. Wanklyn, Christchurch, was a passenger from Wellington for the south last evening. The Rev. T. Fielden Taylor, Wellington, City MiSsioner, travelled south last evening. Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, left Wellington yesterday afternoon for the north. Mr. W. Bromley, deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board, has returned to Wellington from Auckland. Commander R. F. Nicholls, of H.M.S. Diomede, will leave Auckland for England by the Rangitane to-day. Mr. Oliver Nicholson, Auckland, was a passenger from Wellington for the north last evening. Mr. John Fuller was a passenger from Wellington last evening for the north. Dr. S. K. Phillips, of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, left Wellington last evening for the north. Mr. J. L. Passmore, of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, was a passenger from Wellington last evening for the south. Mr. A. B. Woodfield, of the Union Steam Ship Company’s Gisborne office, arrived at Wellington from tlie south yesterday. Mr. E. W. Ackland, of the National Electrical and Engineering Co., Ltd., left Wellington last evening for the south. Rear-Admiral F. Burges Watson, commanding the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, left Wellington last evening for Auckland. Messrs. Speight, Lbuisson, Duncan and McCoy, of New Zealand Breweries, v Ltd., arrived at Wellington yesterday and left again in the evening, Mr. McCoy for Auckland, and the others for the South Island, Mr. 11, J. Otley, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, who was taken ill while attending the hospital boards’ conference at Napier some weeks ago, has returned to Christchurch fully restored to health. Mr. M. Armstrong, of the firm of T. Armstrong and>Company, Ltd., will leave Christchurch in Easter week on a buying trip to England. He will travel via the Suez Canal and expects to be away from New Zealand for six or seven months. Mr. L. F. I’. Taylor, who was very seriously burned in an aeroplane crash at Johnsonville in September, 1932, and who has been undergoing a series of plastic and surgery operations in London, is to leave England next. week, and is expected to reach New Zealand about May 25. Mr. Taylor has expressed himself as quite satisfied with his appearance.