PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 1, 26 September 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Vice-Regal. Yesterday morning the GovernorGeneral visited the Prime Minister at Northland, and subsequently held an interview’ with the Acting-Prime Minister, Hon. P. Fraser. Later His Excellency received the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. W. Barnard. Last night her Excellency Lady Galway was present at 'the annual meeting of the Young Women’s Christian Association. Sir Charles and Lady Norwood, Wellington, are at present in New York. They had intended to visit England, but in view of the war they have decided to return to New Zealand; and hope to be back in. Wellington toward the end of next ’ month. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McKenzie have returned to Dunedin after visiting ■Wellington. Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. P. Grattan, chief secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, left for the south last night by the steamer express. Mr. A. J. Levick, staff superintendent, New Zealand Railways, left Wellington yesterday ou an official visit to Wanganui. Captain A. R. Cockerell, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C., Area Officer for No. 12 Area, and adjutant to the Southland Regiment, has left Invercargill to take up a special appointment at Trentham. Mr. Godfrey Magnus, Wellington, was a passenger by the Queen Mary on her last voyage from Southampton to New York. He is now returning to New Zealand. Mr. Neville James, who was a member of the crew of the yacht Marie which recently returned from a threemontbs’ cruise' in the Pacific, has returned to Wanganui. Mr. W. J. Shanly has resigned from the Ministerial secretarial corps to accept an administrative position at the Royal Air Force station at Wigram. He was private secretary to the Minister of Housing, Mr. Armstrong. Mr. AV. J. Mountjoy, secretary of the Wellington Employers’ Association, who was the employers’ representative on the New Zealand delegation to the 1.L.0. conference in Geneva in June, is expected to arrive back in New Zealand on Friday. Mr. J. M. Dawson, president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, with his wife and daughter, are at St. Abb’s in Scotland. It is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Dawson visited France and Germany just before the outbreak of war. They expect to leave for New'Zealand early in October. The lit. Rev. T. E. Riddle, moderator of the Presbyterian Church, who left for Australia at the beginning of the month, is returning to Auckland soon. He will be in New Zealand for some months before going back to his mission work in the Punjab, India. .Mr. Paul Falla, son of Mr. N. S. Falla chairman of the .Union Steam Ship Company, of New Zealand Ltd., * who was a member of the staff, of the British Embassy at Warsaw till the Ambassador’s withdrawal, is being transferred to Ankara in Turkish Asia Minor.

Major S. F. Allen, area officer at Hamilton and adjutant of the Waikato Mounted Rifles, has been transferred to Trentham, where he will take command of the Divisional Signal Corps. Major W. H. Allen, Hamilton, has been called from the reserve of officers and will replace Major S. F. Alien.

Mr. T. M. McKewen. accounts clerk of the Palmerston North Hospital Hoard, has been appointed accountant to the Southland Hospital Board. 'There were 25 applications for tbe position, which was made vacant through the resignation of Mr. 13. A. Grant, who was recently appointed secretary of the Vincent Hospital Board at Clyde. Mr. David 11. Graham, F.Ii.M.S., F.Z.S., Christchurch has been appointed by the Government to carry out an investigation into the cockroach pest which has been causing concern at tourist resorts in the North Island. Mr. Graham has conducted many research undertakings in New Zealand, one of his most successful being that into the control of mosquitoes in the Auckland, district.