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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL

Mr. J. E. Macassey, Dunedin, returned to the south in the steamer express last night. Mr. J. Skinner returned to Christchurch last night in the steamer express. Mr. H. L. Longbottom returned to the south last night in the steamer express on his way to Dunedin. Mr; J. \ Maling, Christchurch, returned to the south last night in the steamer express. Mr. Mark Death, of the Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd., arrived at Wellington from Auckland yesterday in the Limited express. -

Mr. Mark Death, of the Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd., arrived at Wellington from Auckland yesterday in the Limited express. - Mr. Austin Carr, of John Chambers and Son Ltd., was a passenger in the steamer express for the south last night. Professor H. Belshaw, Auckland University College, arrived at Wellington yesterday in the Limited express from the north. Mr. A. G. Lunn, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, arrived at Wellington yesterday from Auckland in the Limited express.

Messrs. F. C. Barningham, Auckland, and G. C. Osborn, Christchurch, passed the land surveyors’ examination conducted recently by the Survey Board of New Zealand. Mr. IV. H. Price, Wellington manager of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., returned to Wellington yesterday in the Limited express from Auckland. Mr. L. Durey, town clerk at Johnsonville, has accepted a position with a Wellington firm and will take up his new duties at an early date. Mr. Oliver Duff, formerly editor of the “Press,” Christchurch, has been appointed editor of the publications which are to be made for the Dominion Centennial in 1940, and has taken up his duties in Wellington. Mr. J. W. Andrews, who has been appointed to represent the Lower Hutt and Eastbourne boroughs on the Wellington Hospital Board in place of Mr. G. Y. Berry, who resigned, was welcomed at the meeting of the board last night by the chairman, Mr. J. Glover. Mr. N. W. Nelson has announced his Intention of standing as a candidate for the Wellington City Council at the municipal elections in May. He has been chairman of the Wellington Fire Board for nine years, president of the Thorndon Bowling Club for four years, and is a retired manager of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Mr. J. Thorn, M.P. for Thames, who has been appointed one of the Government delegates to the conference of the International Labour Office at Geneva in June, will leave Auckland for Sydney by the Awatea on April 11. Mr. Thorn, who will be accompanied by Mrs. Thorn, will travel from Australia to England by the Strathaird. The other Government delegate, Mr. H. E. Moston, Assistant-Secretary of Labour, intends to leave Wellington tor Sydney on April 5 and. to join Mr. Thorn on his arrival there from New Zealand.