PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor-General presided at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday morning. The following were the guests of their Excellencies at luncheon at Government House yesterday:—Lieuten-ant-Colonel and Lady Janet Bailey, Miss M. Richmond, Miss E. Richmond, Major Seaton-Karr. Sir James Leigh-Wood, chairman of the British Empire Games Federation, and Lady Leigh-Wood, who have been on holiday in New Zealand since the conclusion of the Empire Games in Sydney, left Auckland on Tuesday by the Aorangl for Vancouver on their return to England. Mr. J. E. Macassey, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the steamer express. Mr. L. W. Swan, secretary to the /Auckland Aero Club, arrived at Wellington yesterday from the north. Mr. H. H. Sterling left Wellington for the north last night by the Limited express. Mr. W. T. Strand, Lower Hutt, was a passenger for the south last night by the steamer express. Mr. J. Evans, Dunedin, was a passenger for the south last night by the steamer express. Mr. R. D. Halstead, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the steamer express.

Mr. J. L. Passmore, Dunedin, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the steamer express.

Mr. W. H. Gummer, Auckland, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Limited express. Mr. J. G. Barclay, M.P. for Marsden, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Limited express.

Mr. J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary in charge of Housing, travelled to Auckland from Wellington by aeroplane yesterday.

(Mr. J, Malcolm Newman, of the Council of Scientific Industrial Research, Queensland, visited Massey College, Palmerston North, yesterday. (Mr. B. E. H. Tripp, Timaru, will arrive at Wellington to-day to attend a meeting of the New Zealand Wool Publicity Committee. Mr. *Beaumont Smith, managing director of the J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation, Ltd., left Wellington for the north last night by the Limited express.

Mr. V. Z. Ham, Secretary of Mines in the Union of South Africa, is expected to reach Auckland from Batavia by the Maetsuycker on April 11. Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Ham will spend a short holiday in the Dominion. The Rev. F. D. Buck, formerly of Victoria, Canada, who for the last six months has been vicar of St. John's Church, Cheviot, has been appointed to Holy Trinity Church, Picton. He will take up his new duties on May 1. Mr. G. F. C. Tanner, manager of the Invercargill branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia for more than three years, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. He will leave for the north next Tuesday morning, and will be succeeded by Mr. G. T. Egan, manager of the bank’s Wagga Wagga branch, New -South Wales.

Mr. E. F. Daly, who has been awarded the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship, received his secondary education at the Christchurch Boys’ High School. He entered Canterbury University College in 1934. lu 1936 he tied for the Sir George Grey Scholarship and was also awarded the Haydon Prize in Physics. In 1937 he graduated B.Sc., and at the last university examinations he passed the examination for M.Se. with first-class honours in chemistry. Mr. Daly is the third old boy of the Christchurch Boys’ High School to be awarded the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship in the last four years, the other two being Messrs. J. W. Mitchell and I. Lauder, who are at present in England.