PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. P. A. cle la Perrelle) will return to ■Wellington from the South tomorrow. The Hon. Sir E. Heaton Rhodes goes] South by the Wahine this evening. Mr. "William "Watson, director of thß' Bank of New Zealand, and Mr. Graena Watson, returned to Wellington front, a trip to England by the Maunganui to-day. Mr. E. A. Blundell, who was a delegate to the Imperial Press Conference, London, returned to Wellington by tha Maunganui to-day. Professor J. MacMillan Brown and Miss MacMillan Brown will be passengers on the Wahine for the South thijf evening. Major Sir Henry Bernard de la P.oer Beresf ord-Peirse, Bart., D.5.0., and Lady Mabel Beresford-Peirse., were passengers by the Eemuera, which arrived tt Wellington yesterday from Home. Major-General E. J. P, . Browne, C.8., late of the Indian Army, arrived at Wellington yesterday from Home by; the Eemuera on a pleasure trip. Mr. J. A. Macpherson, M.P., leaves for the South by the Wahine this evening. ..-.'. Mr. H. Holland, M.P., of Christchurch, will be a passenger on the Wa« 'hine for Lyttelton this evening. The Bight Eev. H. Newton, Angli- ■ can Bishop of New Guinea, reached Wellington by the Eotorua from Southampton on Saturday evening, after attending the Lambeth Conference. The Eev. Canon' P. T. .Williams, of '■ Wanganui, returned' by the Kemuer* yesterday from a, visit to England. Mr. J. H. C. Bond, Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, goes South by the Wahine. this evening. He returns to Welling- ■ ton on Wednesday. ' • ; Colonel F. Searle, C.8.E., D.5.0., o£ Bovers Motors, Coventry, was a passenger by the Eemuera from.Home yesterday. ■ ■ . . .. . Professor J. Adamson, -of Wellington, returned by the Eotorua on Saturday evening after an. absence of nins months abroad. Mr. D. C. Peacock, of Wellington, was a passenger by the Eotorua from Home on''■Saturday evening. . . • Mr. Henry Isaacs, professor on tha staff of the Eoyal Academy of Music, London, who is to examine in. New Zealand on behalf of the Associated Board of the Eoyal Academy of Music and the Eoyal College, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui to-day. Mr. Isaacs will be in New' Zealand two weeks. . Mr.' A. K. S. Mackenzie, of the legal firm of Messrs. Bel], Gully,. Mackenzie, and O'Leary, returned to Wellington to-day from a trip to' Australia. Among the passengers by the Maunganui to-day, was.'Mr.. A. Heigh way, editor of the "Badio .Becord" and "Dairy Exporter," who returned from a trip to Australia. . \ The Eev. Prank Eule, who has "been, in charge of the Social Service Association in Christchurch • for the past twenty-two years, will retire at the end of this month. Mr. Bulehas served the Presbyterian Church in New: Zealand for thirty-six years, and. he':las beea identified with the social service ■ work of the church in Christchurch since its beginning. Dr. W, G. Woolnough, of Canberra, geological adviser to the Commonwealth Government, arrived at Wellington on Saturday by the Eotorua, and left last evening for Auckland to ;join the Aorangi for Sydney. 3e has been on an official visit'to the United States and the Argentine investigating the latest methods, of prospecting employed on the large oilfieldsrv'; - Dr. E. H. Stewart, of Dublin, has been appointed medical registrar tot, the Christchurch. Hospital. (says an exchange). The. post . w&s' advertised throughout New Zealand -and in London. If wag reported at yesterday's meeting of the North. Canterbury1 Hospital Board that five' applications had been received and submitted to the Director-General ,of Health, in accordance with the regulations. The Hospital Committee favoured the appointment of Dr. Stewart, and the.recommendation had ■ been approved by th» Director-General.1- .;■' Mr. Denis A. Lightband, a son of Mr. H. Lightband, of Christchurch,' has' obtained the degree of Master, of Scienca at the University of Pittsburg. Mr. Lightband was educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School (says an exchange), and in 1922 graduated B.EI (Elec.) at Canterbury College, and was' awarded the travelling scholarship for New Zealand for that year. Ho completed his workshop practice in several departments of the. Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department, and fulfilled the scholarship conditions by, taking the students' engineering lecture course with the W«stinghousa Electric and Manufacturing Company^ Pittsburg. Later he was appointed t« a position on the company's, desiga staff, where he was engaged'for abouj five years. - " . : "...""