PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (the Et. Hon. G. W. Forbes) -mill return., to 'Wellington tomorrow from Hamilton^ The Minister of Finance (the Et. Hon. J. G. Coates) -will leave Wellington tomorrow evening for Cambridge. The Minister of Public "Works (the Hon. J. Bitchener) is expected to return to Wellington'tomorrow from, the south. The Minister of Health (the Hon. J. A. Young) will return to Wellington tomorrow, from, the north. The Minister of Lands (the Hon. E. A. Kansom) intends to leave Wellington tomorrow evening for Dunedin, where he will open the winter show. The Minister of Employment (the Hon. A. Hamilton) will return to Wei- i lington from the north on* Thursday morning. r ~ ' Sir PWlip Game, Governor of New South Wales, and Lady Game ara through passengers on'the Niagara; oa a visit to England, states a Press'Association,message" from Auckland. '" Mr. O. JV Hawken,'of Wanganui, it visiting Wellington. Dr. J. JB. McDiarmid, of;Tauranga, returned from Sydney by the Monowai today. ( -, Sir Cecil Leys, of Auckland,' arrived from the south this morning and will -leave for Auckland by the Monowai .tonight. Mr. E. Leggatt, of raison,' who has been:on a. holiday visit to Australia, returned with \ Mrs. Leggatt by ,the Monowai .from Sydney today. Mr. J. C. Entrican, of Auckland, was a passenger by the Monowai fsonx" Sydney today. , * Mr. B. Keiller, of PVlmerston North! returned today by the Monowai from Sydney, -. Mr. W. Bromley, of the Unemployment Board,-will return to Wellingtoa ,on Thursday morning. Professor - Malcolm • and Professor Denham arrived 'from the south thii morning. - v Major Hunter Blair, accompanied byMrs. Hunter Blair, -arrived this morning from the south. The Et. Eev. W. H. 'Baddeley, Bishop of Melanesia, will leave this afternoon by the" Maunganui for Syd.ney on. his return to his diocese. Professor J, McD. Holmes, who occupies the Chair of Geology at the University of Sydney, and who' arrived here last Friday by -the Mataroa from Southampton,, is leaving Jby ,the Maunganui this afternoon for Sydney. Among the passengers by the Monowai from Sydney today were Mr. S. 5..~ Manning, -manager for, the 'Union > Steam Ship Company at Earotonga, Mr. J. M. Deck, shipping manager ' for Wright, Stephenson, and ,Co., Ltd., M-n-J. J. H. Magee, an Australian mining engineer, who 'is 'proceeding to England, and Mr. G. "Gostello. of ► Christchurch. ■ - »• Mr. .Warwick C. Gregory, local director of-the Commonwealth and Dominion ' Line, returned with, Mrs. Gregory 'by the Monowai today after a business visit to Australia/ The,' Eev. Canon C. H.. Stajham, father of Sir Charles Statham, Speaker^ of the House of Eepresentativ,es, £a» resigned his position secretary. treasurer 1 of the" diocese .'of Dunedin. . of the Trust Board, -iad of thi - Clergy Pension Fund, state* - "The Pqst»s-".Dunedin correspondent.- Canoa Statham, .who is "89 years1 of *ge,-i*« performed the duties' of -those office* for. forty years, The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr. 2>. G. Sullivan, M.P.), acting under mcdi- " cal advice, has left Christchurch for a, rest in the country; - •' » .M>- W. H. Bennett, whose birthday wall be tomorrow, received the felicitations of the members of the Technical. College Board of Governors, of which he is chairman, at the meeting of the board last-night. Those present showed their feelings towards Mrrßennett by a hearty rendering of "For He's a 'Jolly Good Fellow" and the giving of threa cheers, *and Mr. Bennett suitably re- • plied. r ' . Cabled bows was-received'in Wellington yesterday, that Mr. Eobert J. McCullagh ? manager ' .of . the Sydney branch of Messrs. Gibsons and "Paterson; Ltd., died after a brief illness. The late Mr. McCullagh, who.nad been with, the firm for 25 years, and manager "of its Sydney branch, since 1923, .wrved * in the. Great War and was, wounded. 'He was a member of" the Wellingtoa Commercial Travellers.' _Club. He leaves * widow. ,\ " ' ' ' -