PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral presided at a meeting of the T. G. Macarthy Trust Board at Government House yesterday morning. Ministerial. The Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, left Wellington for the north by- the Limited express last evening. The Hon. W. Nash, Minister of Finance, will leave Wellington to-day for Wanganui to take part in special church services there to-morrow in connection with the cathedral fund appeal. He will return to Wellington on Monday. Mr. W. N. Norwood left Wellington last night for the South Island. Mr E. W. Ackland returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to the South Island.

Mr. T. A. Fraser left for Christchurch by the express steamer last night. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates left Weilington for Auckland yesterday by air.

Dr. N A. Foden, of the Crown Law Office, left Wellington yesterday for Blenheim by air.

Mr. W. A. Armour, headmaster of Wellington College, travelled south by the steamer express last night. Mr. J. S. Hislop and Mr. 11. H. Sykes returned to Dunedin yesterday after a business visit to Wellington. Mr. W. J. Morrell has been reappointed chancellor of the University of Otago, and Mr. L. D. Ritchie vicechancellor.

Mr. John Farrell, advance manager for. the Frank Neil Revue Company, left Wellington last night for the South Island.

Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of the Department of Industrial and Scientific Research, returned to Wellington yesterday from the south. Mr. DI. J. Royds, Invercargill, who has been on a business visit to Wellington, returned south by the steamer express last night. Mr. H. IL Cornish, SolicitorGeneral, was a passenger for the South Island from Wellington by the steamer express last night'. Mr. S’. L. Gilkison, pilot for Cook Strait Airways, who has been on a holiday visit to Wellington, returned to Nelson by air yesterday. Mr. John Dowgray, Westport, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, left Wellington last night for the south.

Mr. W. Tucker, Clive, has been appointed organiser of the Napier branch of the National Party for the forthcoming general election. Dr. B. G. Spiers, Dunedin, has boon appointed a member of the staff attached to the Queen Diary Hospital, London. It is his intention to remain tn England for at least five years. Mr. Walter Russell-Wood, Dunedin, is expected to arrive at Wellington this morning to judge the elocution classes at the Wellington Competitions Society’s festival.

Wing Commander A. de T. Nevill, Air Force Member for Supply, and Mr. T. A. Barrow, Air Secretary, left Wellington for Christchurch last night on air force business.

Professor A. H. Tocker and Mr. C. P. Agar, members of the Government’s Guaranteed Price Advisory Commtitee, left Wellington for Christchurch last night. Mr. J. W. Dove, chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, arrived at Wellington yesterday to attend a meeting of the' executive of the Hospital Boards’ Association.

Dlr. J. G. D. Ward, of Kinsey and Co., Ltd., Christchurch, has received advice from London that he has been elected an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. Dlr. J. T. Leech, Dunedin, who is to act as judge of vocal music at the Wellington, competitions, arrived at Wellington from the south yesterday by the steamer express.

The Rev. D. V. de Candole, ,who is to begin his ministry at All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North, arrived at Wellington from England by the Ruahine yesterday.

Mr. E. J. Tait, managing director of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., who has been in New Zealand on private business for a fortnight, left Wellington for Sydney by the Dlaunganui last evening. Captain A. W. Greville, of the Defence Department, arrived at Wellington from Dunedin yesterday on transfer to general headquarters at Wellington. Dlr. C. W. Roots, officer in charge of the municipal aerodrome, Rongotai, left Wellington by the Maunganui last night on a holiday visit to Australia. He intends visiting the principal aerodromes in Sydney and Dlclbourne. Dlr. R. M. Algie, organiser of the Auckland Political Freedom Association, has been invited by the executive of the newly-formed Christchurch Business Group of the New Zealand National Party to visit Christchurch. Dlr. R. E. Deidrich, of the Public Trust Office, Wanganui, has been appointed assistant Attorney-General in Fiji. Mr. Deidrich was a member of New Zealand university Rugby football teams at various times between 1929 and 1933. Mr. E. H. Thomson, managing director of Cook Strait Airways, Limited, arrived at Wellington by air yesterday morning and returned to Nelson in the afternoon. He was accompanied on both flights by Captain G. Bolt, chief pilot for Cook Strait Airways. Dlr, G. A. Dladdlson, mayor of Hastings, who is visiting Australia, wars unanimously re-elected chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board yesterday. The deputy-chairman said Mr. Dladdison had never been in the least parochial and no other chairman of the board had given such service. Flight Lieutenant J. R. Shelton Agar, formerly of the Royal Air Force, England, arrived at Wellington by the Ruahine yesterday. He is to join the New Zealand Air Force and will be stationed at Wigram. Flight Lieutenant Agar is accompanied by his wife, formerly Diiss Clunies-Ross, Wellington, who has been away from New Zealand for ten years.

Mr. T. 11. Lowry and Mrs. Lowry, Okawa, who are at present visiting England, are expected to leave on August 31 in the Queen Mary on their return to New Zealand, via the United States, and will arrive in New Zealand early In October. Mrs. Lowry, who is president of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, with Lady Wigram, Christchurch, represented New Zealand at the International Red Cross Society’s Conference at St. James’s Palace, London, in June.