PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. E. A. Ransom) left this morning to spend the week-end at his home in Dannovirke. He is expected to return on Monday evening. The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. A. J. Murdoch) will return to-morrow morning from Christchurch. Sir Truby King entered a private hospital yesterday for a period of rest treatment. Messrs. L. Stephenson and D. B. Kent have been appointed Government representatives on the Napier Harbour Board to fill the positions- formerly occupied respectively by Messrs. B. 8.. Creagli. (resigned) and E. A. Goodgcr (deceased). . .. Mr. F. J. Fan-ell, of Hamilton,- has been appointed to the Auckland Harbour Board to fill the vacancy, caused by the death of Mr. Campbell Johnstone. Mr. W. Morrison, fanner, of Wanganui, has been appointed a member of the Main Highways Board, on the recommendation of the New. Zealanl Counties Association, vice Mr. A. E. Jull, who recently resigned. Mr. W. Scott, managing director of R.K.O. Pictures (A 'sia.), Ltd., Sydney, accompanied by Mr. R.- Braver, secretary of the company, is at present in Wellington on business. Mr. B. Hinclcnacb, who was for some years chief engineer of the "Sun" Newspaper Company, with service ■in Christchurch and Auckland, is joining the staff of the Christchurch Press Co., Ltd., and will have charge of the rotary presses of the company. His Lordship Bishop Byrne, of Toowoomba, Queensland/who -has been visiting New Zealand to raise to the priesthood his nephew, Father Edward Joyce, of North Canterbury, leaves Auckland by the Ulimaroa for Sydney to-day. '..' . ■ ■.-.'.;■ Mr. Claude Kingston, concert director for J. and N. Tait, Ltd., returned last night to complete arrangements for Jan Kubelik's appearance with the-Welling-ton. Philharmonic Orchestra on Saturday next. • . •'. ,• ■ ; .-.-;. The Hon. B. M'Callum, M.L^C, completed 31 years of continuous servica as a member, of the Board of Governors of Marlborough College when the board met on Monday on the anniversary' of the first meeting held in 1899. As a mark of appreciation of. Mr, M'Callum's long service, the principal (Mr. J. Stewart, M.A.) asked him to accept a small gift from the school. The presentation took the form of'a■'speciallybound copy of Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship," bearing the college) crest. Mr. M'Callum, returning thanks, said he deeply appreciated the presentation as a very graceful act, '