PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. Father McGlynn, Ecetor of St. Columban's College, Essendon, Melbourne, left for Sydney by the Marania today. Mr. Thomas Dwyer left by the Marama today for Essendon, Melbourne. Mr. J. D. Nelson (Wellington), flight cadet, Royal xVir Force, has successfully passed through the Koyal Air Force College, Cramvell, and has been granted a commission as pilot officer with effect from and with seniority of December IG, 1933. Mr. Wilfrid Kingsford. Smith has' returned from Christehurch, and is staying at the Hotel St. George. Captain. A. M. Peters, D.S.C., formerly comirjander in H.M.S. Dunedin, is to be chief staff officer at Gibraltar. The Mayor; (Mr. T. C.'A. Hislop) is slightly indisposed, and will not be at his office at the Town Hall until Monday. '■■ , A Press Association message froui 2s rew Plymouth states that the Eotary . Conference yesterday unanimously elected Mr. J. M. A. Ilott, of Wellington, the New Zealand District.Goveriior for 1934-35. ' ' : ' - Among the guests at the Midland Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. H. Humphries (Napier), Mr. and Mrs. O. Hara (Sydney), Messrs. A. J; Winchester, A. E* Cooper, and J. M. Jones (Christchurch), and CM. Crawford (Sydney). Mr. Herbert G. Smith, formerly general manager of the Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., is leaving for England by the Ruahine. At present Mrs. Smith is at Oxford, where her son, Dr. J. C. Smith, is on the University staff.; > Captain K. H. L. Mackenzie, who was navigator of the sloop Torch, on the New Zealand station at the beginning of the war, is .now in H.M.S. Guardian, the new net-layer and targettowing vessel which has arrived at Gibraltar on her first cruise with, the Home Fleet. The Guardian will take part in the combined fleet exercises in March. .**'•'"' The Hutt Rugby Football Club last evening congratulated Mr. J. N. Millard on his promotion to be principal of the Hutt Valley High School, and Mr. G; J. McNaught, who has been chairman of the club, on his appointment \as first assistant;at the 'High School. 'Each was. thanked: for past services, to the. club. / v Mr. E. A. Anderson, C.M.G., lias.been appointed chairman of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed. Milk.. Co. ■ (Australasia), Ltd., in.placeof the late Mr. S. E. -Levyy-df Sydney,'' Recording to a Press Association" ihessage from Invercargill. Tho appointment of Mr. Anderson, who for some years has been chairman of the associated company in New Zealand, comes "from the head office in Switzerland.- The Australian branch' of the.company lias its head office in Sydney, where. the board sits. It controls a vast chocolate factory at :Parramatta and many:' connected milk factories, including one at Dinhingtons, in Western-Australia,; which ranks with the largest in tha world. The "Church Envoy I,' states that tho ■ Rev. J. T. Paddison, formerly vicar of Gore,,, and'sinco his return to England rector of Elston with, Sibthrope, Nottingham, has been appointed rector of Welbourn, Lincolnshire. ■ "Mr. Paddison recently unexpectedly inherited a baronetcy Tho death occurred, at Dunedin yesterday of Mr. James Dick, aged 7S, managing director and founder of the Drapery Supply Association, states '' The Post's "" Dunedin correspondent. Ho was for a time in the employment of Messrs.! Bing, Hairis, and Co., and in JB9O he founded the firm of - the Drapery. Supply .Association:.."Two of his'sons are in. the business with Mr. McKechnie, who was the 'deceased 's, partner.' ■"■".' a •' Visitors to Wellington staying at ths Empire Hotel/include Messrs. C. E. Jopp' and E. Graham (Gore).. T. McGhie (Westport), -F. Gatley (Palmerston: North), C. R. Tilloy (Wanganui), H. E.- Pinel and L. T. Heide (Auckland), D. Wilson (Lyttelton), and P. D. Howe (Dunedin). Mr ( . and Mrs. C. ~R.-. Aschman (Christt church), Messrs."W. Pearcy, G. Coxj .T. E. and F. McHendry. aiid M. C. MeTigue (Christchurch.),' W; G. IMacirn doe, F. Pickering, and'Dl Green (Auckv land), G. P.' Lindley (U.S.A.), W. VT t Snodgrass (Nelson), IV Hockins (Dan« nevirke), and E. Martin (Palmerston: North) .are among the guests at tha Grand Hotel. • ' ': Messrs. S. Mayev (Adelaide), &.,<\ Bell; W. C. Harrison,, and E. J. Bell (Hastings), C. E. Begg (Dunedin), and E. Vailes (Eotorua), are among jho guests at the Royal Oak Hotel. . For having1 been•, found on. licensed! premises after hours, Edward Horace' Eugene Dixon, William Harris, Donald Eoberjson, and John Nicholas Barbcc wore ea,ch fined £.2 by $£r. E.-Page£ S;M., in. the Magistrates-Court todiiyf Jasper Ashworth was fined £1 for. .the same offence. ' . ■■■'..- \ Staying at the Hotel Sk-George ai# Mr. and Mrs. ■ Williamson (Calcutta-), Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Dana (Boston). Drj Fong F. See (Shanghai), Messrs. S. E. Main (Christchurch), B. H. Fitts (Melbourne), and T. P. M. Bevan and H. E. Haines (Auckland) i .„