PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Lands (the Hon. E. A. Hansom) retnrncd to Wellington yesterday afternoon after a tour of inspection of, settlements in the Wairarapa district.

The Hon. .T. B. Donald, PostmusletGeneral, arrived in Wellington this morning by the limited express from. Auckland.

The Minister of Railways' (the Hon. W. A. Veitch) arrived this morning from tho North.

Mr. It. A. Anderson, C.M.G. (Invercargill), and Mr. 0. Nicholson, (Auck« land), directors of the Bank of No* Zealand, are at present in Wellington.

Mr. V. T. Fail, manager of 'Afforestation Proprietary,- Ltd., Taupo,. is in Wellington for a few days on business.

Messrs.- W.-.. Aldridgo (■Christchiireh), 0. Bidwill (Featherston), and,O. Nicholson (Auckland) are among the guests at the Midland Hotel.

Mr. Justice Frazer, and the other members of the Arbitration Court, Mr. W. Cecil Prime and Mr. A. L. Monteith, return to "Wellington this evening from the West Coast and Marlborough districts.

Mr. C. J. B. Norwood, -who has been seriously indisposed for some weeks past, and hus been out of town for some time, has now greatly improved Ln health.

Sir Join Koberts and MivG. i?. Eitchie, who lave boon in Wellington attending a meeting of the directors of the Union Company, left for the SoutH Island last evening. •

Mosssrs. E. nonderson (Dunedin), L. L. Napier (Auckland), W. B. Tennont (Palmerston North), 1\ Wurr (Marton),J. Jameson (Nelson), and H. D. Pefele (England) are guests at the Empire Hotel. ■

The Speaker of the House of ltepresentatives, Sir Charles Statham, who has been spending a holiday at Eotorna, returned to Wellington yesterday. He is now in residence at Parliament House in readiness for the opening of the session next Thursday.

The Ecv. Dr. A. Boyd-Scott will leave Wellington on Saturday for Southampton by the Eangitiki. He is returning to his church, in Glasgow after having been preaching in Sydney. A Press Association message from! Wanganui states thai. Mr. A.S. Campbell, who was recently appointed aet-i'ng-traffio manager at Wanganui, died snddonly in a private hospital thia morning. Ho was well known in the service, and was recently stalionmastw; at Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brinsley (Dunedin), Mr. ana Mrs. R. G. Guy (HamUton), Messrs. J. Mason (Christchurch), J. M'Leod (Timaru), x and A.' Harveyj (Auckland) arc staying at the Grand Hotel. ,

Mr. F. L. Kay, M.A., Assistant Professor of Classics, University College, Toronto, late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Canterbury' College, is returning to New Zealand via the United States and West Indies to Panama, thenco by the Matarpa, arriving Wellington, about 2-3 rd". June, Mr. Kay will spend the vacation with, his mother, Mrs. J. L. Kay, Merivale.

Guests at the Edyal Oak Hotel include Messrs. B. A. Hardie (Palm^rstoai North), W. H. Wynyard (Auckland), K. M'Lean (Waipukurau), J. P. Kenns) (Napier), A.1 T. Bain (Wanganui), J. Hogg, J. A. Evans (Duncdin), H. C. Newman, W. J. Butler (Hokitikn), and A. 2?. Hudson (Sydney). Mr. H. M. Jones, who, whon'Mayor] of Eastbourne, represented, that bor« ough on the Wellington Free Ambulance Board, was to-day elected an. associate membor of the board/in, view of ■ his past services.

Visitors to Wellington staying at the Hotel St. George include Messrs. G. W. Reed, W. Easton, C. Stanley' SmitW (Dunodin), A. M. Burns, A. 0;-WilMn-Isonj G."R. Croll (Christchurch), A.PowdriU (Napier), A. C. Codlin, W. J. Holdsworth, H. M. Eogerson/ K. H.Barthy, 11. -Hayward/ P. Hayward, W. Fuller (Auckland), B. A. Wilthaup (Milwaukee, U.S.A.), E. W; Parkhurst, L. TrccTvceke, and L. Prosser (Sydney),