PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 108, 31 January 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL

Hi® Honour Air. Justice Ostler has been appointed President of the Prisons Board. The Hon. Adam Hamilton, ALP., was among the arrivals at AVellington from Lyttelton yesterday. Mr R McPherson, Wheat and Flour Controller, arrived in Wellington from Christchurch yesterday. The appointment of Professor Kazimierz Wodzicki as Consul-General ot Poland in Wellington has been recognized. Mr W S McGibbon, Christchurch, president of the Associated Chambers ~f Commerce, arrived in Wellington yesterday. ji r |] i> Aeland, Christchurch, president of the New Zealand Sheepoxers’ Federation, left Wellington for the south last night. Mr J Al. Hardcastle, general manager of Uie “New Zealand Herald,’ Auckland, who has been visiting Wellington, returned last night. Mr. J. Al. Curtis, sub-inspector in the Bank of Australasia for the past: seven vears with headquarters at Wellington, who retired on January 2;> after 4o vears’ service in the bank, was farewelled on Wednesday afternoon by the inspectors’ and Wellington branch staffs. Mr- Cameron, the New zealand inspector, on behalf of the New Zealand stall’, presented Mi. Cuitib with au all-wave wireless set suitably inscribed. Alt-. Carrol Binder, foreign editor “Chicago Daily News,” and Air. Wenslcv IV. Waynmck, editor ol: the "Iteg'ist'er-Tribune,” Des Moines, town, two prominent American journalists, who are making a study ot social and economic conditions in New Zeahrnd, were entertained at afternoon tea yesterday bv the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser The function took place in the Prime'Minister’s office in I’arlianmnt Buildings, and the guest® included Min ister® of the Crown and representative imirnalists and newspaper executives, who were given an opportunity to meet the visitors.