PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 155, 29 March 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL

The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) and Lady Myers arrived in Dunedin on Thursday on a Holiday visit. They will remain there until the end of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Lefeaux, of Surrey, England, the former a brother of Mr. Leslie Lefeaux, governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, are at present in Auckland.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. B. Parry, D. 5.0., J.P., who retired recently from the Third Dragoon Guards, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Mataroa. He intends to siiend a short fishing holiday in New Zealand.

Mr. R. E. Price, Conciliation Commissioner, has returned to Auckland from New Plymouth. Mr. E. R. Coutts, Inglewood, who played for Taranaki against the 1921 Springbok team, has been elected president of the Taranaki Rugby Union in the year that the Springboks will tour New Zealand. Mr. Alfred Bunz, who conducted the Christchurch Orchestral Society for several years, and acted later as emeritus conductor, has again been appointed conductor of the society for the forthcoming season. Mr. John Farrell will leave Welling ton to-night for Christchurch to complete arrangements for the Christchurch season of Colonel de Basil’s Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Farrell. Mr. B. M. Johns, a New Zealander who is professor of clinical surgery at King Edward VII College of Medicine. Singapore, is at present visiting Christchurch in the course of an extended leave. He is accompanied by Mrs. Johns.

.Mr. G. T. Dawson, manager for New Zealand of the Liverpool .and London and Globe Insurance Co., Ltd., will leave for Australia on April 15 to take over the management for Australia of the Gurdian Assurance Co., Ltd., with headquarters at Melbourne. Mr. R. T. McMillan has been nominated by the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union to act as one of the three growers’ representatives on the committee to be set up by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. AV. Lee Martin, to consider the production and marketing of barley for malting purposes. , Mr. J. T. Watkins, of the New Zealand Hansard staff, left for England on Saturday by the Arawa on a health trip and to visit his son. Mr. Neil Watkins, who is with Henry Dawson, Sons, and Co., Ltd., London. Mr. Watkins, sen., will return to Wellington in August for the next session of Parliament.

Mr. William Taylor, who has retired after 19 years’ service as general manager of Kempthorne, Prosser and Company’s New Zealand Drug Company, Ltd., was presented with a suitably inscribed gold watch at a farewell at the head oilice of the company in Dunedin recently. The presentation was made by his successor, Mr. M. Stewart.

Mr. S. E. Nielson, New Plymouth, who has resigned his position as secretary of the Taranaki Rugby Union to go to Australia, was given a cocktail shaker at a dinner at Stratford attended by members of the management committee of the union. The presentation was made on bejialf of members by Mr. J. S. Hickey who, together with the other members, praised what Mr. Nielson had done for Rugby in Taranaki. and expressed regret at his departure. Mr. Dave P. Stuart, accompanied by Mrs. Stuart and their son James, left by the Arawa on a world tour. Mr. Stuart is the founder of the new sawmill settlement at Bruce Bay, South Westland, and he intends visiting the lumber districts on the Pacific coast of America and will .also inspect tim-ber-loading methods in Sweden. He expects to be abroad for 12 months, and will take a route unusual to travellers from this country, leaving the Arawa at Panama and visiting the lumber districts there first.