PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 58, 12 March 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister (the Bight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) will leave Wellington on Monday on a visit to.Southland.

The Postmaster-General (the Hon. J; B. Donald) left for Auckland last night. . . -i . • ..

The Minister of Labour, Mines, and Transport (the Hon. W. A. Veitch) will leave to-morrow evening for Reef ton, where lie will represent, the Government at the opening of the show..".. Subse-' quently he will visit the Murchison Show. Mr. Veitch will then proceed to Otago and Southland. . ...";. . ' .

Mr. Justice Ostler returned to Wellington, to-day iront Napier and Gisborne. ■ -■:■::■■..'.

Lord and Lady Liverpool.left Auckland to-day for Vancouver by the Aorangi, states a Press Association.telegram. .'•..■■-.

Mr. P. C. AVatt returned by the Maunganui this morning from Sydney. Mr. Watt has been attending tho Rotary Conference in Japan.

Mr. S. Savage, Commissioner of tlie High Court and Registrar of the Native Court in the Cook Island Group, arrived in Auckland by the Maui Pomare on Saturday morning.

Mr. J. P. M. Box, Assistant Commissioner at Niue Island, arrived in Auckland by the Maui Poniare on Saturday morning. Ho was accompanied by Mrs. Box and their four children.

Mr. J. H. C. Bond, Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, left Auckland to-day by the Aorangi on an extended visit to England and tho Continent.

Mr. W. W. Meek returned from Papeete by tho Tahiti this morning, and will leave for Auckland by the Limited this evening.

"The Post's" London correspondent reports the death on 29th January, at BexhHl-on-Sea, of Mr. Harry Yelverton Goring, in his 78tU year. Mr. Goriug was formerly well known in Wellington.

Captain Vellenowcth, Administrator at Aitutaki, arrived by the Tahiti this morning.

Mr. J. J. M'Elroy (Oakland,' California) is a passenger by the Tahiti, which arrived to-day from San Francisco. He is making tho round trip to Australia for health resons.

Mr. L. V. Bartlott (Sydney) is _ a through passenger by the Tahiti which arrived from San Francisco to-day. Mr. E. J. Blois, also of Sydney, arrived by the same boat. •

Mr. F. Henningsen, tho Danish ViceConsul at Sydney, arrived to-day by the Mauuganui for a Holiday in Now Zealand.

Mr. P. M. Chancellor, of Chicago, who intends spending some time in tho Dominion in general scientific research, arrived by tho Tahiti to-day. Associated with him is Mr., Norton Stuart. Other members of the party aro Mias D. M. Dowling and Mr. F. Guntrip.

Captain H. Dannreuther, E.N., who was formerly in charge of the Flinders Naval Depot, arrived to-day by tho Maunganui from Sydney. Captain Dannreuther, who is accompanied by Mrs. Dannreuther, will leave by the lonic for England to-morrow.

Mr. W. A. Mackay left Sydney with his wifo and family on sth March by tho Maloja for England. They will return to Australia at the end of the year. Mr. Mackay, who is a nephew of Lord Inchcape, has control in Australia and Now Zealand of the shipping interests represented by tho P. and O. Co., the Eastern and Australian Line, tho British-India and Ham Lines, and the A.U.S.N. companies.

Mr. B. 0. Andrews, New South Wales, Government geologist, has'been elected president of tho Australian and New Zealand Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Inc.) for tho current year. Mr. F. \Y. Furkert, Engineer-in-Chief of the PuWic Works Department, is in Auckland in connection with-the bursting of the Mount Edea reservoir.

Mi 1. Gcorgo Eussell, of Wellington, accompanied by Mrs. Kussoll, is leaving by the Maunganui. on Friday on a world tour. Best wishes for a pleasant time abroad were extended to Mr. Russell on bohalf of the Wellington Botary Club by the president, Mr. D. J. M'Gowan, at the club's luncheon to-day.

Dr. G. H. Cunningham, Ph.D., M.Sc, F.'N.Z.L, an officer of the Agricultural Department, at present in charge of tho mycological station at Palinerston North, is to represent New Zealand at tho forthcoming Mycological Conference in London. The conference, which will be attended by representatives from all parts of the Empire, will deal entirely with the question of diseases in plants.

A Press Association message from. Napier states that tho Hon. H. Atmore (Minister of Education) visited the Napier. Boys' and Girls' High School and tho Napier Technical College today. Ho loft later for Hastings, where ho will inspect schools and receive deputations to-morrow. He loaves later for Waipawa and Dannevirke.

Colonel W. S. Tuppfo arrived to-day by the Tahiti from San Francisco. He has come to Now Zealand by arrangement with the Govornment Publicity Oilico and the Union Steam Ship Company, in order to travel through the Dominion before giving lectures in the United States on behalf of the Publicity Department. When tho lecture season is over Colonel Tupper will be arranging for the conducting of tourist parties to New Zealand.

Amongst Wellington deer-stalldng parties leaving shortly will be ono comprised of Messrs. A. E. Shrimpton, late Chief Telegraph Engineer, George Sanderson (Hastings), F. W. Furkert (En-gineer-in-Chief, Public Works), E. C. Gage (District Telegraph Engineer, Auckland), and Dr. Porritt (Wanganui). They aro going to the Huxloy Gorge, near Lake Ohau, a locality which Mr. Shrimpton and Mr. JB. L. Wigley have stalked over annually for_ many years, securing some fine heads, including a sixtcen-pointer.