PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mi. James A. W. Crosscr, late general manager of Messrs. -Kirkealdie and • Stains, has joined the- organisation of Messrs. Debenhams, of Wigmore. Street, London, and has been appointed'assistant manager and merchandise manage? of Messrs. Adderly and Co., Ltd., of Leicester. .■'.:. ■ Mr. Stephen Smith, of Nai Nai, was last evening cordially, thanked by the Lower Hutt Borough Council for the gift of about 12 perches of landwhii;!i made possible the. forming of another sports ground on the Nai Nai* reserve. Out of sixty-two applicants, Mr. E. J. Bird was last evening appointed fire station keeper by the Lower Hutt Borough Council. The Lower Hutt Borough Cpuncil received confirmation last evening that Messrs. Wm. Smith, of Waterloo Boad, Lower Hutt, and F. 8. Hcwer^ Taita, had been appointed members of the Assessment ■ Court for tho purpose of the Urban Farm Land list "for' the" borough. Mr. Smith Will act' as borough assessor, and Mr. Hewer for the land owners. ' ■' . • The Mayor (Mr.' T.C. A.. Hklop)' left; Wellington . today for .Botorua, where: ho will spend the Christmas and 2few Year holidays. Visitors to Wellington staying at the Empire Hotel. include Messrs. J. Harris. (Auckland), .B. Meßeath (Levin), G. Gotz (New Plymouth), and A. Whelan (Marton). " ~ ..-■ Mr, and Mrs. L. Shotlandor >(Mcl« bourne), Mr. and Mrs, Saunders (Wa« nganui), Mr. and Mrs. James Breeds' (Tauranga), Messrs.' W. H. Melsou (Woodville), and J. B. O. Leggatt (England) are among- the guests at the. Boyal Oak Hotel. ■ Staying at tho Grand : Hotel are Messrs. P. Bristol (Wanganui), L. Spee<;hley (Palmerston North), B. Goodman and. B. J). Knight (Auckland),^. Docker (Sydney), and''JVM. Kutherfofrd (Auckland). v .. ~ Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Pharazyn (Dannevirke), Messrs. Richard C..T. Baine (Nelson) and J.. A.•;■ KedpatU (Ohristehureh) are staying at ihe Hotel St. George. Among the guests .at .the- ..Midland Hotel are Mr. and Mrs.; L. Bathgem (Christchurch), Messrs. G. B. Hiitchin-' son (Auckland),' C. K. MorristQii and G. F. Newman (London), D.. A. Solo- . man (Dunedin), F. Lopdell (Eskdale), and J. Harold (Wanganui). . Mr. P. J. O 'Began returned on' Saturday from Napier. Mr. W. F. Sturm an, ex-Town €lerk of Petone, and now Town Clerk of Ihyercargill, is visiting Petone, laceompaiiieii by Mrs. Sturrnan. Mr. and Mrs.,Sturman will leave for Botorua this week.