PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 9

PERSONAL MATTERS

• Sir Donald M'Gavin arrived from the South this morning. ' Mr. E. P. Lee, M.P., was a passenger by the Maori from Lyttelton this morning. The' Hon. F. J. Kolleston (Minister of Defence) returned to "Wellington from the South Island to-day. Mr. P. J. O 'Regan returned to .Wellington from Wostport and Nelson this morning. Bishop Liston and " Monsignc-j Ordku}, of Auckland, will leave by tho Aoiangi on iSlh April to attend a Bjihan Catholic Cu.grew at Chicago. ••Mr.' Georgo Coleman Phillips was yesterday admitted as .a solicitor of the Supreme Court by his Honour the Chief Justice, on the motion- of Mr. A. Gray, K.C. A motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. A. E. Why to, who was a vice-president of tho Wellington Harriers Club, was passed at the annual meeting of tho club last evening. The .members of the bindery department's staff of the Government Printing Office assembled recently to farewell Mr. J. Moffit, who is leaving after j twenty-three years'" service to conduct! a business of his own. The office staff presented him with a handsome timepiece, and wished him well1 in his venture. . . . Cabled information has been received from England that Mr. A. J. Harrop, M.A., formerly a- member of the literary staff of tho. "Press," I'as been r.warded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Harrop went to England about the middle of 1923 to carry out historical research at Cambridge on the legal and political relations between England and New Zealand, and entered Ci as College, where he has since been working with Mr. E. A. Bcnians, one of the editors of tae Cambridge History of the British Emphe, now in course of production. During his vacations Dr. Harrop has been attached to the literary staff of the "Daily Mail," as well an being a regular con ' ibutor of special articles to the Dominion newspapers.