PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hoii." ;G. Ay;'Forbes, Prime Minister, left -for tlie f Noi-.th,;lastj evening ,to take-part in.-th'oi'Hauraki'by.-election in the interests;of the "United Party candidate, -Mr. E. Allan.; Hewill return to. Wellingtoix' on.■■ DTridayi'j*'

The Hph. E.'.A. Banso'm, Minister''of Lands, will- leave- for Auckland-!' this evening. Ho, will. deliver a .publics-ad-dress.'.1 to-morrow eveningMn-'.siipitoii.ffof the candidature of Mr. 15,' Allan; the United Party candidate. \ . ..' The Hon, W;: Bi>wii%'. St6war.t' :ti leaving',for tnp'Sbu'th by, the'Wahih'e, to-night; ....'. .■: ■.-';. '■' -

The Hon. : '.G.; M.■;.IJioiuS6n,'.','M.Jj;b.;' will be among the.;passengers "leaving, for Lyttelton.by the Wahine t'o-ixight. '

'':' Mr! C!P. Tripe' is going"; Sotitli1 by; the: Wahinc: to-iiight. j ?i; ~';'!i. : vV',■■:"\'1

Mr. Robert 0. Hoss is leaving by lbs Murnma t on Friday on a trip to tho Old Country, returning in .Novembei,

Dr. ]!!. Kidson and Dr.- I). Miller were elected to-day as bellows of the New Zealand Institute

Dr. W. P. Evans i\as> nominated, as the recipient bf the Hector Award sit to-day's annual meeting of tlfe Board of: Governors1 of the New Zealand* Institute, the award being giv^n.for his researches into the chemistiy. of coal.

• Mr.Albert.Spencer,, pr^iflent-pf th« A^ekland':Enip|oyeTs';vAasociatj.bn1,l--who haaV'be6ii i /a'tferi4ing-V:^it|iQ*iii^to"tratioii Court proceedings,'.'is;returning,By the Limited;, to-niglit

Dr. J". A. D. Mulliollimd, oi1 Wellington, who has been on a trip abroadi returned by the Port 3?airy,'which" arrived at Auckland on Holiday. Ho was accomj:>anicd by Mrs. Mulholland • and Misses T. and C. Mulholland

Professor P. W. Burbidgc, professor of physics, at the Auckland University; College, has been granted leave from November, ,1931, until January, 1983. Dr. D. Brown, lecturer in physics,' is ta act as head of tbe department during Professor Burbidge's absence. , Mr. George Fraser, after acting as president of the Auckland Ironmasters': Association for 22 yoais, has recently! retired from tho office. 110 was farewelled on Monday by members of. Tho association at a social evening, and pvor sented with an illuminated address.

Eeferenco was mado -at fo-day^s annual meeting Of the Board of.Governors of the New Zealand Institute ta the deaths since the last meeting .of Mr. A. M. Wright, Mr. Carse (Auckland), Mr. Crosbie Smith (Otagq), Mr. "Philpott (Cawthron Institute),, Sir Robert Stout, and Lady Hector. ■ Reference was also' made to tho deaths, of- Sir James Thistleton-Dyer and LoTd Melchett.

Mr. K. A. Falconer, a well-known ■Wellington hockey player," leaves this week to represent Now Zealand at the first World's V.M.C.A. Assembly- of Young Men, which opens at Toronto on 27th July. It is expected that the gathering will be attended by several hundred young men, together with, men interested in work with young men, and that all the leading nations, and the great church confessions; such- as the Eeformed, Lutheran, Anglican, and Orthodox Churches, will be Represented to confer on tho life problems .of youthThe assembly will continue for -a, week, and will be followed by the" twontieth World Conference of Y.M.C.A.'s •at Cleveland. It is interesting to note that the.late Mr. A. R. Falconer, «£ Dunedin, and Mr. C. S; Falconer, of Wellington, grandfather and father,* respectively, oi' • Mr. K. Falconer, hay& represented the Y.M-.C.A. at' oversea* gatherings.;