PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 31, 6 August 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. The Governor-General and Lady^ Bledisloe attended Divine service at St. Paul's Pro-cathedral yesterday morning. .-■ His Excellency presided at a meeting of the Executive Council this morning, and subsequently at the .annual meeting of the T. G. Maearthy Board, of Trustees, of which the Governor-General is chairman. . ■'■■■.-. Mr. G. McNamara, Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, who attended the Postal Congress ia Cairo early this year, returned today, by the Maungauui from Sydney. Mr. H. V. Francis, a mining engineer'of Victoria, arrived',: by. tha Maunganui today from Sydney. Mr. J. Ashton, a prominent grazier of New South Wales and a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, is a "through passenger to San Francisco by the Maunganui which arrived today from Sydney. Mr. Ashton, who is on a trip to England, has been', associated .with politics in. Australia- for 'the past forty- years. He retired from/ the Legislative Council only a ; few. months ago.. \ Dr. N. Guthrie,:of Christchurch, returned south on Saturday evening. Mr. L. J.' Kogers, who is to carry out road tests in America with' petrol produced at Newnes, Australia, is a through passenger to San,Francisco on the Maunganui which arrived today; from-Sydney. • .' ■ . ;; ■''.' Mr. jST.. Smith, general, managej'," of the Shell Oil .Company of New Zealand, Ltd., returned With Mrs. Smith and their infant daughter by the Maunganui from Sydney today. The Rev. and Mrs. G. S. Bird (England), Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Little (Chicago), Mr. and Mrs.. W. M. Ma6alaster (Ihvercargill), Messrs. H.^ K> Bolph, S. M. McFelding, and D. K. Till (California),. J. Armstrong (Canada), J. Dawes and J; Bruntoii (San- Francisco), A. Lund (Paris), G. B. Gribsoa (Sydney), I. C. Hall (Hong Kong), and B. Gloverolark (Auckland) are at the Hotel St. George., ; , ' -, Messrs. W. Wallis- (Motueka), B, B. Tennent (Dunedin), S. Waters and E. S. AVilliams (Wangaaui), and J. B. Danks, N. L. Phillips, and H. Gray, (Auckland) are at the Empire Hotel. Messrs. Biggar (New Plymouth), A. Markland (England), and A.% Oliver (Auckland) are at the Grand -Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. T. Brown (Nelson), Mi\ and Mrs. H. Benuie (Christehurch); Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Husspy (Wauganui), Messrs, A... and T. McDonald (Masterton), and.I1; W. Seldon (Ashburton) are at the Boyal Oak Hotel.