PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 10

PERSONAL

The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, Leader of the Opposition, accompanied by Mrs Forbes, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday morning. The Rt. Rev. Campbell West-Watson, Bishop of Christchurch, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday morning to visit the Bishop of Wellington. Mr. H. D.'Acland arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from Christchurch. The Hon. Alport Barker, Mayor of Suva, left Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday on his way back to Suva. Dr. R. J. McGill, Dunedin, has been appointed house physician to the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Regent's Park, London. Mr. W. T. Ikin, manager for New Zealand of the A.M.P. Society, left Wellington yesterday on a business trip to Gisborne., He was accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Ikin. Mr. Ernest Stanford, C.8.E., Appeal Secretary, British Empire Cancer Campaign, will leave Napier on Saturday for Auckland, via Rotorua, arriving at Auckland on Tuesday next. He will leave for London by the Rangitane the following day. Mr. A. W. G. Newman, representative of Dean and Dawson, Ltd., general tourist agents in Europe, will be arriving in Wellington early in November for a stay of several weeks, according to advice received by Burns. Philp and Co., Ltd. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Atkinson, who was, for two and a half years during the war, officer in command of the New Zealand Army Service Corps, will tour the Dominion shortly. Accompanied bv his wife, he left England on September 10 for Australia, en route to New Zealand.

Mr. C. F. Warren, general manager in New Zealand and Australia for the Prudential Assurance Company, who is well known in Wellington, was entertained at a dinner in Sydney on his return from a visit to Europe last week. At the same dinner, Mr. Best, the assistant general manager, was cordially farewelled. on the eve of his departure on a trip to England.

Mr. Arthur J. Bland, of Wellington, and formerly a member of the head office staff of the New Zealand Government Railways, will leave by the Mannganui shortly for San Franeiseo. He will spend about three months in the United States and will then proceed to New York, where he will join a large party in an extensive world tour, including over twenty countries, and taking in Egypt and Palestine. The party will return to England in time for the Coronation. On suitable occasions during his travels abroad Mr. Bland intends to carry out some voluntarv publicity work on behalf of New Zealand by delivering a series of Illustrated lectures and showing slides and cinema films of the scenic beauties of New Zealand. Mr. Bland expects to be absent for two years.