PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

£ -^Sir Francis" Bell (Acting-Prime iMnis»,;»Atei')> and-Sir Heaton Rhodes (Minister of ."' >*"*b'efence and Commissioner for State For-

-ji ests) left Wellington for the West Coast 'kv.last night to attend the opening, "by the ?*stHon; Downie Stewart'(Minister of Indus-IL-'TJaes and Commerce), of the West Coast ii* 'Exhibition, at Hokitika, on Saturday *„liext. .Sir.Francis Bell is expected back S-£ift Wellington- early next week. After •jfTth.e opening'of the West Coast Exhibi--4f Son, Sir'HeAton Rhodes will proceed as Js^f&r south as the Waiho Gorge on a preS !~^iminary tour of inspection of the South ijgS'Westlarid' forests, in company with Mr. i" M'Gavock, the local conservator of forj: .ests. The Minister expects to return to ivi-Ehristchurch about 21st December.'

■* *~ -The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister of .!£■■ Eabour.).lveturned from the South yesHg^teTday. ' - '•■ . jSIJjMr. -Sydney Francis'Hoben, a well- »* known .New Zealand musician, and foru- roerly of Napier, who has been residing !f^»3ii" ths United States for the past four-!v'-jteen years,- arrived in Wellington by the .'^Tahiti yesterday. He will leave for. s i-^hristchurch, to-night... Mr. Hoben may fj-_^ettle in New Zealand. <? ;;■; F. Stubbs, T.R.G.S., who receht- «■ It> returned from" a four-years' journey *^in,'Em:Qße3J!jd'.lne Far East, and has just T TK|?eii'',seTeras"addi'esses., in,-this city on , •'■ -liis-tiavelSj" Jeff "for -the"' South" last evening by the Wahine. Mr. Stubbs has lec...fair,£d._on__N.ew Zealand in every . other r English-speaking country, and is now '} touring the Dominion in order to renew J his knowledge and impressions of this I country.