PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Railways (the Hou* W. B. Taveruer) returned this morning from Dimedin.' -"'•-' ' V ;,■'.;;■*: The Minister of 'Detente (the Son, J. Gf. Cobbe) arrived this afternoon from the Taranaki district. . The Minister of Health' (the Hon. A. J. Stalhvorthy) left for Auckland last night. .. ~ The Minister of" Labour" (the Hon. W. A. Voitch) left Wellington this morning for the Taranaki district. He expects, to return next Wednesday. Mr. W. M, Jacks returned to..Auckland yesterday. • ' ".■:.....-. His Honour Mr. Justice Reed returned to Wellington last. evening from Blenheim. . .-'■ • ; His Honour Mr.'Just&e Ostler"is expected to reach Wellington, to-morrow morning from Auckland.. ■ _■ - ■~ •■-•-■■-,; His Honour Mr. Justice • Kennedy will ■ leave Wellington on Monday .to 1 preside .at the criminal sessions of the Supremo Court qt Nelson.: ' . . ° Oii the motion of Mr. W. E.: Leicester, Mr. Harold Jovrott, solicitor^ of Wellington, was: to-day admitted : as a barrister of the- Supreme Court by his Honour the Chief Justice- (Sir Michael Myers). "" '* Mr. A. W. Perkins, Auckland manager of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., and Mrs. Perkins leave by the Maunganui. for Sydney, en route to England and the Continent. They will leave Sydney by.tha Orontes on 9th April. .-:■■ • ": Mr. Arthur Fowler, Civil servant) of Wellington, was ■ to-day admitted' as '» solicitor of the Supreme' Court by his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir- Michael Myers) on the motion of Mr. H. M<Cofmick. . ■ . ';" ."■ . ■'.•■■ "■ = Mr. ;JV G. Craig, of the Commercial branch, New Zealand Railways,, hits returned to 'Wellington', after , cohduefing the Empire farmer visitors through New Zealand. ~ . .' "■'■;.,".' Bishop and Mrs. West-Watson, "of Christchureh, were pasesngers by the Makura for Australia to-d[ay. They are en route to' Great: Britain, where Bishop West-Watson will attend the Lambeth Conference. •■ •" ■ '..:■-■■■> Messrs. R. A. Anderson . (Inyereargill), G. C. Godfrey (Wellington),' W. J. Holdsworth (Auckland), G. A; Lew|a (Lunedin), and S. A. R. Mair (Hnnteryille) have been reappointed members of the Local Government Loans Board for a further term of one year. • ■'■■'..' Mr. T)y Eodie, .Commercial Manager, Railways, leaves for Auckland tornight to take over the. duties of .divisional superintendent (North Taland). for about four weeks, during the. absence on leave of Mr. E. Casey....", Mr. '.&. G. Stewart will act as Commercial Manager during Mr. Rodio's absence. :•., Captain G. H. Scull, New. Zealand Corps of Signals; has been awarded, the ColoniaFAuxiliary -Forces Long; Service Medal. ;■'.- , ; ' ■ .-■. '~' '• '• ■■::.:/.■: Sympathetic' reference to -th'e'-'de'atJi of the Rev. Father Ryan is made' in. the annual report of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys? Association Football Club. "Father Ryan played for ' the: elufr's first senior team," states the report, "and while his .duties in later years fully occupied his. time .he. lieviertheloss willingly gayvc us.whatever" '.assistance it was in his power, tb give.'*!:../■'> London, papers to-, hand -by .the, las* mail record, the death in the-Transvaal, as the result of an- eceidenty of Mr. George Geoffrey Sale,..eldest and- only; surviving son o£ ; the late Professor Sale, of Otago University*.- telegraphs ■:' ' The Post's'? Dunedin.-; .-•; correspondent, "Geoffrey," as he was known, in Dunedin as a boy, made a. good record at Otago High' School, >A which. he : was a pupil from 1880 to 1852,' for. he showed brilliance as a scholar, and became leading Rugby p)ayer. .: He afterwards . studied at»Otago'iUniTrersity- under Professor Ulrich; and qualified as a mining engineer.-:"' In :thc ebursej of time, he set up- in his profession' in Rhodesia. When war was-declared, in 1914 he went to England, and .'was given a commission. He served in the North Staffordshire's and the Royal Engineers, also with one of'thc-.TunneJ-ling Corps, and.'wns awarded the Military Cross and the D.S.Oiy besides feeing twice mentioned in dispatches. In"JSitf he wont back to. Rhodesia with his wife and son. ' '.. .. , ;; v Mr. C. ML.. Smitii", ; M:A,,. B,Se. (For.), has been appointed Chief spector of Forestry for '.; a -five-year term. Mr. Smith was : born ia New Zealand, and educated.■.at , ; the Otago Boys' High School, andlater ,he graduated M.A. of the New :2ealancl ; University. He served with the New Zealand Forces during the war and rose to ; thb rank of captain. .- After the war he studied forestry at Edinburgh Uniyersity, and took his degree in that subject. Subsequently Mr. Smith canie to the Dominion and joined the State Forest Service as a forest ranger. .In 1925 he became Conservator of Forests at Nelson, and three years la.ter was transferred to the head office of the State Forest Service, where' he has remained since. -■■■'■ •■''' ■ Among the guests staying at the Midland Hotel are Mr. and ;Mrs.. Goring Johnston, of Hawkes Bay;' Mr. Russell Owen, New York City; Mr..-J. T. Thompson, Mr; H. Spry, andMf.:.V. O'Neill, of Melbourne; Mr. G. ;H." Abel, of Auckland; Mr. R. ■: V. Warnian, Chicago; Mr. Le PageySydney;^'Mr. Fauser, Sydney; Mr- A.. J. aird"Mn;O. Pollinghorne, of Adelaide; Mr. R.: H. Hull, of Christehurch; Miss Gale, Sydney; Mrs. E. R. Symes, Waverley.j-Mts. Baker Creswell and Miss Vaile, Auckland; Mr. Herbert Hall and: Mr. .Wigley, of Timaru, and Mr. C. ;R. Gavegan, Auckland. The guests . at-the Grand Hotel include Miss M'Dermott, Melbourne; Mr. and Mrs. D. Amos, Newcastle, N.S.W.; Mr. W Armstrong, Sydney; Mr. R. A.- M'Millan,.-.;Mel-bourne; Mr. J. Frank, Nuremburg; _anS Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Berlcin,, Washington, D.C. ' " -■■■•'■■'.