PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor-Gener-al, Lord Galway, presided at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday morning. Ministerial. The Hon. P. Fraser, Minister of Health and Education, has returned to Wellington from Wairoa, where he represented the Prime Minister at the funeral of the victims of the East Coast camp flood disaster. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, who attended the funeral of the victims of the East Coast camp flood disaster on Tuesday, later visited the scene of the tragedy and inspected other Public Works camps in the Kopuawhara Valley. He is expected to return to Wellington to-day. He has had to cancel the visit which he intended to make to the West Coast this week, but will leave on Friday night on a short visit to Christchurch.

The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Railways, is expected to return to Wellington to-day from Christchurch. Mr. J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Housing, left Wellington last night for Auckland on Housing Construction Department business.

The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, arrived at Wellington by the steamer express from the south yesterday.

Bishop Cherrington arrived at Wellington from Hamilton yesterday to attend a commission appointed by general synod to consider the needs of Anglican theological colleges in New Zealand. ,

Professor G. Peren, Palmerston North, arrived at Wellington yesterday after visiting Christchurch. Mr. R. D. Horton left by the Awatea from Auckland yesterday on a visit to Sydney.

Dr. R. R. D. Milligan, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday. Dr. J. Malcolm, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington yesterday from the south.

Flight Lieutenant T. J. Denton arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday morning. Professor C. E. Hercus, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday. Professor T. A. Hunter returned to Wellington by the steamer express from the south yesterday.

" Commander and Mrs. S. Hall were passengers from the south by yesterday’s steamer express. Mr. C. Jarvis, of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, left for Auckland by the Limited express last night.

Dr. H. G. Denham, Christchurch, was among the passengers from the south by the steamer express yesterday. Mr. A. Wyness, Wellington manager of His Master’s Voice (N.Z.), Ltd., left for Auckland by the Limited express last night.

Mr. D. W. Hastings, part proprietor of the “Townsville Bulletin” and “North Queensland Register,” is visiting Auckland in the course of a tour of New Zealand.

Mr. F. Meyer was yesterday reappointed by the Wellington Education Board as the board’s representative in the Horowhenua Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Club.

Mr. Hector Olsen, manager of the State Theatre, Wellington, has been transferred to Invercargill, where he will take charge of the Southland district for Amalgamated Theatres, Ltd. Mr. Thomas Dick, Wellington, has been awarded the Diploma of Membership of the United Practitioners’ Association of Natural Therapeutics of Australasia.

Mr. H. McCormick, secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, has been appointed the council’s representative at the New Zealand athletic championships to be held in Christchurch.

Mr. Frank Goldberg, governing director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, Limited, who has been visiting his company’s New Zealand offices during the past two weeks, returned to Sydney by the Awatea.

Mr. H. Hinton, jun., and Mr. H. C. Williamson, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington yesterday to attend a conference of the New Zealand Fruit and Produce Auctioneers and Importers’ Federation and the Internal Marketing Department. Mr. Warren Toogood, who has been connected with the Wellington Repertory Society, and who has been associated with several broadcast plays, will leave for Sydney en route to Melbourne on Tuesday next. Mr. Toogood intends (o settle in that city. The Rev. J. R. Nelson, Otaki, was granted 12 months’ relief from his duties, so that he may recuperate his health, by the Methodist Conference yesterday.* In putting the motion to the conference, the president, Rev. Percy Paris, expressed regret that Mr. Nelson was not enjoying good health. Mr. G. Bruce Smith, general manager for Australasia of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Limited, will return from Invercargill this morning and will be spending a few days in Auckland and Wellington before returning to Sydney. Mr. G. K. Howard, general manager of General Motors Export Corporation, New York, his assistant, Mr. W. K. Norton, and Mr. H. B. Phillips, regional director of General Motors for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, who have been visiting the Dominion, left by the Awatea from Auckland. Dr. G. H. Hucker, of the New York State Agricultural Experimental Station, who has-been conferring with officers of the New Zealand Agricultural Department on the eradicatoin of cattle diseases, left for Vancouver by the Niagara from Auckland. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hucker.