PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 121, 16 February 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. P. Fraser. Minister of Education, visited Masterton yesterday and attended the celebrations of the diamond jubilee of the town and the Masterton Public School. The Hon. IV. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, who has been inspecting departmental activities in the Rotorua district, returns to Wellington this morning. The Hon. IL G. R. Mason, AttorneyGeneral, returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday.

Sir John and Lady Reed, who were visiting Dunedin, have returned to Wellington. Mr;’ A. S. Richards, M.P. for Roskill, is visiting ’Wellington.

Mr. T. C. White, formerly mayor of Port. Elizabeth, East Africa, is visiting ■Wellington. Dr. A. Smith Gray, F.R.C.S.. who has been in England for some time, has returned to Auckland. Mr. S. Kissell. conservator of forests in "Western Australia, arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Awatea on a visit to the Dominion. Mr. and Mrs. Alex. R. Nichol, of Melbourne. accompanied by Mrs. V. R. Matthews, left by the Wanganella last night on the cruise to Milford Sound. Mr. H. J. Einpen has been appointed a commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands as from December 15 last year. Dr. C. Lambert. Dunedin, was a passenger from Sydney by the Wanganella yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lambert and left later for the south.

Mr. F. W. Mothes, managing director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, Ltd., Wellington, arrived by the Wanganella yesterday after a trip to Sydney. Mr. A. L. Moss, of Oamaru, who graduated B.Sc., A.0.5.M., at the end of last year, is to leave for Borneo, where he has received a position with a tin-mining company.

Mr. H. Solomon, who is on the teaching staff of Christ's College, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Wangatjella after a holiday in Australia. Mr. C. d'O. Umfreville-Moore, of Southern Ireland, accompanied by his wife, arrived at Auckland by the Rangitiki to spend a fishing holiday in New Zealand.

Professor W. N. Benson, professor of geology and mineralogy at Otago University, accompanied by Mrs. Benson, arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella yesterday. Mr. G. A. Lewin, a director of the board of management of the State Advances Corporation, and formerly town clerk of Dunedin, js visiting Christchurch.

Mr. W. Gray Young. Wellington, president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, is visiting Christchurch. He will preside at the opening of the annual conference of the institute to-day. Professor G. G. Nicholson, Sydney, who occupies the chair of French at Sydney University, was a passenger on the Rotorua, which arrived at Wellington yesterday. He is returning to Australia after a trip abroad. Mr. John Macmillan, managing director of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., and of the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, Ltd., who has been visiting Christchurch, ,1s expected to reach Wellington to-morrow morning.

I’Afessor W. Riddet, director of the Government Dairy Research. Institute at Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North, returned by the Wanganella yesterday after a .12 months’ world tour, partly on a Carnegie Institute grant.

Professor F. W. G. White and Mrs. White arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Wanganella. Professor White, who is a Wellington man. is on his way to assume the chair of physics at Canterbury University College. For the past five years he has been op the staff of King’s College, London. Captain Hubert Acland, D. 5.0.. R.N., has been appointed to the command of H.M.A.S. Australia, in succession to Captain H. A. Forster, whose term of loan service 'will expire on March 31. Captain Acland will join the Australia at Wellington early in April, during the visit of the squadron to New Zealand waters.

Mr. V. Vogt, Auckland, who has been away from New Zealand for two years and a half, during which time he visited South America, England and Norway, returned by the Rotorua, which arrived at Wellington yesterday from Loudon, via Panama Canal. Mr. Vogt will spend a week or so in Wellington with his son, Mr. T. Vogt, before returning to Auckland. Lieutenant-Commander E. W. Monckton arrived at Auckland from London by the Rangitiki to replace LieutenantCommander J. T. Lean, of H.M.S. Philomel, on the New Zealand station. Joining the Navy in 1917, LieutenantCommander Monckton served first on the training ship Temeraire, and was later in the Renown during her visit to Japan with the former Prince of Wales. Ills later service has been in submarines and destroyers. He is accompanied by Mrs. Monckton. Lieu-tenant-Commander Lean, whose term of service on the New Zealand station has ended, is to leave, Wellington for England by the Remuera on Thursday. •