PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 80, 28 December 1935, Page 10

PERSONAL

Ministerial. Tbe Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, left last night in the Limited for Rotorua, and will be absent from Wellington for about one week. Mr. F. Clark left Wellington for Auckland yesterday afternoon. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, and Mrs. Hislop, are spending a month's holiday at Rotorua. Mr F. McHugh, of the “White Horse Inn” Company, is due to arrive in Wellington from Auckland this morning. Mr. W. A. White arrived at Wellington from Christchurch yesterday morning. and left later for Palmerston North. Mr. J. H. Lindon, general manager of the Vacuum Oil Company, sailed for Sydney by tbe Aorangi from Auckland. Tbe Hon. Vincent Ward, M.L.C., has returned to New Zealand after a short business visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. C. H. Burnett, M.P. for Tauranga, who previously lived in Wanga* nui, is to take up permanent, residence in his electorate early in the New Year. Mr. W. Laird Thompson, of Auckland. has been appointed secretary to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architecture. Mr. G. Brash has returned to Invercargill after' spending a year at the Sydney University Veterinary College. He will continue his studies there next year. Mr. T. N. Baxter, of the Eastern Service New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd., arrived at Auckland by the Monowai to spend four months’ leave in the Dominion. Dr. T. Beveridge Davis will arrive at Auckland on January 6, after doing post-graduate worje in surgery at Edinburgh and studying the latest develop-, inents in gynaecology and obstetrics at I/Ondbn. The Rev. Dr. Francis Waish, of Christchurch, has returned to New Zealand after studying theology for three years at the Irish College and the Lateral! University, Rome. He is to be attached to the Wellington diocese. Mr. G. E. Crawford, of Vancouver, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi. He is accompanied by Mrs. Crawford, and intends to spend some time in New Zealand before going on to Australia. Dr. Carlos Niseggi. and his niece, Madame Cabanius, of Buenos Aires, are touring tbe South Island at present. They are booked to leave Wellington for Sydney by the Monowai on December 30. Mr. S. B. Smith, senior draughtsman in the Dunedin office of the Land and Survey Department, who is retiring on superannuation after 42 years’ service, was tbe guest at a farewell gathering of staff members and local .surveyors this week, when several presentations were made to him. Mr, L. J. Greenberg, general secretary of the Wellington Young Men’s Christian Association, is at present visiting Christchurch. He is to leave to-day with a party of 41 young men from Wellington on a 1000-mile tour of the South 'island, and will return on January 5 to Wellington. .Mr. J. A. Rhodes, manager and employment officer for the Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League in Dunedin, was met recently by tlie men working iu the disabled soldiers’ leather goods and woodware factories, when presentations were made to him from the men. Dr. Wolfram Peuseler. who for some time lias been in charge of the Austral Malay Tin Company's driiiug operations in tbe Cromwell district, on tbe lower reaches of the Clutha. lias completed the work and has left Cromwell for Sydney, where lie will make his final report to the directors on the Clutha proposition. From Sydney. Dr. Penseler will sail for Singapore, en route to Taiping, Malay, where lie will direct the company’s operations on 10 areas.

Outward passenger traffic from tbe Thorudon railway station over the Christmas holiday period was well up on that of last year. Inward traffic was also a good deal heavier, especially on the Auckland line, but there was little alteration iu tbe number of passengers carried on the Napier and New Plymouth lines.