PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 41, 12 November 1936, Page 10

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General presided at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday morning. Captain I. G. Glennie, R.N., commanding officer of H.M.S. Achilles, paid an official call on his Excellency yesterday morning. Last evening Lord and Lady Galway left Wellington for Christchurch, where to-day his Excellency will open the Royal Show. Their Excellencies have accepted a number of engagements in Christchurch during the next three days. They will return to WeUington on Sunday morning. Sir William Hunt was a passenger for the south last night from Wellington. Sir Arthur Richards. Governor of Fiji, and Lady Richards, will leave Sydney by the Awatea to-morrow for Auckland. Sir Walter Kinnear, controller of the insurance department of the British Ministry of Health, after conferring with the New Zealand Government about the proposed national health scheme, left Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday afternoon on his return .to England. The Hon. Mr. Justice Smith will return to Wellington to-day from Napier and Gisborne. The Hon. Mr. Justice Ostler, who returned to Wellington on Tuesday from Palmerston North, will leave on Monday to preside at the Supreme Court sessions in Nelson and Blenheim. Mr. C. E. Begg arrived at Wellington from the south last night. Mr. G. Springhall has returned to Wellington from the south. Mr. J. E. Macassey arrived at Wellington yesterday from Dunedin. Mr. G. A. Leyiu, Dunedin, left from YVellington for the south last night. Mr. lan Duncan has returned to Wellington from Christchurch. Mr. N. S. Falla has returned to Wellington from a visit to Christchurch. Dr. H. Widdowson, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday morning. i Mr. R. A. Barbour was a passenger for the south last night from Wellington. Mr. C. Bruce Smith, general manager of Sharland and Co., Ltd., arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from Auckland. Mr. C. Mooney, manager of the Union Steam Ship Co., Tasmania, accompanied by Mrs. Mooney, will arrive at Wellington by the Marama to-morrow. Mr. W. K. McAlpine, chairman, and Mr. C. H. Ciibborn, secretary of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, arrived at 'Wellington yesterday from the south to attend a meeting of the executive of the Harbours’ Association.

Mr. G. L. Riley has been appointed assistant secretary to the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association. Mr. Riley, who is an associate of the New Zealand Society of Secretaries, has had extensive business and secretarial experience in Wellington. Mr. Hubert Kessels, who was attached for several years to the staff of the German Legation at Dublin, has been appointed by the Foreign Office at Berlin secretary to the new German Consulate at Wellington. Mr. Kessels ami his family are expected to arrive in New Zealand about the middle of December. Dr. D. W. Guthrie, son of Mr. H. D. Guthrie, Herne Bay, Auckland, ami Dr. Alan Douglas, son of Mr. C. Douglas. Napier, have qualified for the first section of the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, according to cable advice received in New Zealand.

Mr. V. G. M. Boulton, formerly of the inspector’s office, Bank of New South Wales, Wellington, and who has been in the Suva branch of the bank for the past four years, returned to Wellington with his wife by the Maunganui after a tour of the United States. He is to take up an appointment with the Bank of New South Wales in Australia, and will leave by the Wanganella on November 19.

Sergeant J. Mclntosh, who lias been attached to Hie Taranaki Street police station for more than live years, has received notice of his transfer to Hastings. He is expected to leave Wellington early next week.