PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 10

PERSONAL

Ministerial. The Hon. F. Jones, PostmasterGeneral, will leave Wellington for the South Island by the inter-island express steamer to-night. He expects to be absent from Wellington for a week. The Hon. P. C. Webb, ActingMinister of Labour, left Wellington for Lyttelton by the inter-island express steamer last night. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Industries and Commerce, left Wellington for the south by the interisland express steamer last night. His Honour Mr. Justice O’Regan, with the other members of the Court of Arbitration, Messrs. W. Cecil Prime and A. L. Monteith, arrived in Wellington by aeroplane from the south yesterday. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., left Wellington for the south by last night’s steamer express. Mr. Alexander Macintosh, who has been a director for the last 20 years, has been elected chairman of the New Zealand board of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. in succession to the late Mr. Gerald Fitz Gerald. Dr. A. N. Slater, Wellington, left yesterday for New Plymouth. Dr. G. Anson, Lower Hutt, travelled to New Plymouth yesterday. ■ Mr. A. M. Hollander arrived at Wellington yesterday from Christchurch. Mr. C. Clabburn returned to Wellington from the south yesterday. The Rev. L. J. Boulton Smith left Wellington for the south by last night’s steamer express. Mr. G. N. Laurenson, Commissioner of Transport, returned to Wellington yesterday from the north. The Rev. E. O. Blamires was a passenger south by the steamer express last night. The Hon. E. Dye, M.L.C., Waihi, left for the south by the steamer express from Wellington last night. Dr. H. P. Pickerill was a passenger for the south by last night’s steamer express from Wellington. The Rev. E. Drake, Christchurch, returned south by the steamer express last night. Mr. W. P. Russell, handicapper for the Canterbury Jockey Club, travelled south yesterday by the steamer express. The Hon. F. Waite, M.L.C., Otago, left Wellington for the south by the steamer express last night. The Hon. T. F. Doyle, M.L.C., Bluff, was a passenger south by the steamer express from Wellington last night. Mr. Arthur Pascoe will leave for Auckland to-morrow, where he will stay for a week before returning to Wellington. Mr. W. J. Evans, managing director of Ross and Glendinlng, Limited, Dunedin, returned south by the steamer express last night, after a short visit to Wellington. Mr. G. McGregor, division manager for the Auckland district of the Texas Company (Australasia), Ltd., left Wellington for the north by the Limited express last night. Flight Lieutenants L. Crocker and L. M. Grundy, of the Royal Air Force, who recently arrived from England on exchange to the Royal New Zealand Air Force, landed at Wellington yesterday. Mr. J. Edwards, who is well known in the motor trade in Australia, and was a popular and successful driver on nearly every race track in the Commonwealth, has joined the Wellington staff of Dominion Motors.

Mr. W, N. Norwood, general manager of Dominion Motors, Ltd., who, with Mrs. Norwood, is leaving shortly on a visit, to England and America, was entertained by tile branch managers of the company at a dinner at the Hotel St. George this week. On behalf of the gathering, Mr. W. D. Gordon presented Mr. Norwood with a gold dress watch, and expressed the hope that he would have a pletrsant and successful trip.