PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL

MINISTERIAL. Tlie Hou. F. Laugstoue, Minister of Lands, has returned to Wellington from the South Island. The Hon. AV. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, returned to Wellington from the Waikato yesterday. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, AttorneyGeneral, will return to Wellington from Auckland to-day. The Hon. I’. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, will return to Wellington from the South Island to-day. The Hon. F. Jones, Postmaster-Gene-ral, will officially open the new post office at Pahiatua ou May 14. The Hon. Mr. Justice Northcroft arrived at Tiinaru yesterday to preside over sittings of the Supreme Court there. The session will probably last a week. Air.. C. A. Mackersey, Wellington, left for the South Island last night. Mr. John Fuller was a passenger to Wellington from Sydney yesterday by the Awatea. Dr. Al. IT. Watt, Director-General of Health, was a passenger for the south last night. Mr. and Mrs. AV. R. Hudson. Dunedin, returned south last night by the steamer express. Mr. and Mrs. S. AL Palmer. Napier, passed through Wellington yesterday en route to tiie South Island. Mr. G. Laurenson, Commissioner of Transport, left Wellington for the north by the Limited express last night. Mr. G. R. Sutton, a director of James Harvie and Co., Sydney, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Awatea, Mr. V. R. J. Stanley, secretary of the New Zealand Railway Officers’ Institute, returned to Wellington yesterday from Ohakune. Captain J. R. Patrick, of the Patrick Steamship Company, and Mrs. Patrick were passengers from Sydney to Wellington by the Awatea yesterday. Mr. AV, G. Beckett, special representative in New Zealand for Columbia Pictures, Is spending a few days in Auckland. The Rt. Hon. G. AV. Forbes and Mrs. Forbes, Cheviot, left Wellington for the south last night by the steamer express. Dr. AV. F. Shirer arrived at AVelllngtou yesterday in the Awatea from Sydney after a short holiday in Australia. He was accompanied by Mrs. Shirer. Mr, A. AVyness, managing director of H.M.V. (N.Z.), Ltd., was a passenger from Wellington by the Limited express last night. Mr. T. O. Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, was a passenger for the north last night by the Limited. Mr. J. Dunlop, Seaward Downs, a member of the New Zealand Dairy Board, left AVellington yesterday for the south. Mr. T. S. Gordon, managing director of Messrs. Blrt and Company, Sydney, arrived in AVellington yesterday by the Awatea. He is on his way to England, and is accompanied by his wife. Mr. H. White-Wickham, London, a regular visitor to New Zealand for the big-game fishing season, is to leave on his return to England by the R.angitane from AVellington on Thursday. Mr. S. Ranganathan, a district magistrate in India, arrived at AVellington in the Awatea yesterday on a short holiday visit to New Zealand. He is accompanied by his wife and two sons. Dr. T. Z. Koo, the eminent Chinese Christian leader, arrived at AVellington by the Awatea yesterday. He left for the north last night, and will arrive back at AVellington on May 13. Mr. R. H. Nesbitt, newly-appointed chairman of the Milk Board of New South Wales and formerly Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, returned to Wellington yesterday iu the Awatea on business connected with his former position. He expects to leave again for Australia in three weeks’ time. The Rev. H. B. Goertz has been inducted as vicar of Paraparaumu. Before he left the Pohangina parish a large assembly of parishioners from all parts of this wide district were present at a social evening held at Ashhurst, in order to bld farewell to the Rev. and Mrs. Goertz and to prove the great esteem in which they have been held. Handsome presentations were also made to them from the parishioners on this occasion, and Mr. Goertz was also presented with a beautiful chiming clock from the members of the local branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. Mr. James Burns, chairman of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., and Burns, Philp. (South Sea) Company, Ltd., has been appointed to represent the AVestern Pacific High Commission at the Coronation. He Is the sou of the late Col. the Hou. Sir James Burns, K.C.M.G., founder of Burns, Philp and Co., and served in the Great AVar. He married a daughter of Sir James Mills, K.C.M.G., well known in Fiji, and the founder of the Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z., Ltd. Sir Henry Milne Scott, a director of Burns. Philp (South Sea) Company, Limited, will represent the Government of Fiji at the Coronation. Mr. John Tucker. AVellington. after 30 years in New Zealand, is to sail on Maj’ 5 on a visit to Great Britain. He has a number of important duties to fulfil abroad, but the aspect of the journey that is of greatest personal value to him is that he will be able to meet again his parents, now aged 90 years. They are the oldest couple in Wales and have been married for nearly 70 years. During his stay in Britain, Mr. Tucker will attend the British Trades Union Congress as a fraternal delegate from New Zealand. He intends to be present at the National Eisteddfod at Machynlleth, North AVales. The Rev. C. 11. Isaacson, who has been the vicar of St. Luke's, Greytown, for the past five years, has retired on pension, and he and Airs. Isaacson will make their future home at Khandallah. Air. Isaacson, who took his degree at Queen’s College, Cambridge, in 1593, and was ordained in 1900, has served nearly the whole of his ministry in New Zealand. For many years he was in charge of the parishes of Pahiatua and Johnsonville, and it was while he was vicar of the latter parish that the present church there was built. Both he and Airs. Isaacson will carry with them in their retirement the best wishes of their many friends for their future welfare and happiness. Air. A. L. Al. Perry, Christchurch, returned to London last week after spending seven mouths in the United States in pursuance of the terms of the Carnegie Fellowship which he was awarded last year. For a portion of the time he studied modern developments iu education at Stanford University, California. He travelled widely through America, visiting schools and discussing problems with leading educationists and sociologists. In January he spent a ski-ing holiday in the Yosemite National Park, and returned to New York by the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. He is now writing a report to be submitted to the New Zealand Council for Educational Research on New Zealand secondary education, for use in the proposed reorganisation in New Zealand. He will return to New Zealand on August 25.