PERSONAL ITEMS
Tho Minister of Public Works (tho Hon. J. Bitchcner) left Wellington for the south last evening.
Mr. Warwick ■Gregory,: manager for Now Zealand of the Commonwealth and Dominion ,■ Lino, left Wellington last evening for the south.
Mr. J. Purvis has been appointed a member of the Upper Hutt Unemployment Committee by the Borough Council in place of Mr. A. Howell, who has resigned.
Mr. Norton Francis, a director of tho Beserve Bank of New Zealand, - was a passenger for tho south last night.
Tho Ecv. ,E. P. Blamires is at present visiting Christeh,urch. ' '
The Rev. David Calder, Dominion. secretary of the British and- Foreign Bible Society, left for Nelson, last even.-
Tho Rev.. T. Ficlden "Taylor left Wellington last evening for Christcnurch.
Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman of tho Dairy Board, has been removed- from the Hamilton Hospital, where he was a patient, and is now recuperating at;his homo in Martinborough. , " ■;
The Science Scholarships Committee Of the Royal Commission .for the, bition of ,1851 have made eight : ap'« ( pointments to overseas scholarships, for 1934, on the recommendation of the various universities. Included' intth - t
list' is the name of H.\ Service, M.Sc. (N.Z.), University of New ZealandVHia exhibition is -for' geology at.the;lmperial College of Science and' Technology, London. y . -^ ......
Mr. A. R. Selanders has been appointed a director on the New Zealand board of the Norwich Union' Life Insurance Society, and Dr. S. D. Rhind has been appointed chief medical officer, of tha society in Now Zealand; : :: ■'■'.'
Mr. Arthur James Moore, who was for more than twenty years caretaker oi the Wellington Girls';Collegey died on Thursday afternoon, aged 73 years. Mr. Moore was-at tho college from 1907 to 1928, and. earned for himself the •esteem of tho staff. He was 'a South! African War veteran: : " ■ ■■"
Flight-Officer D. W. Morrisli^. B.A.F. (Whangarei), haa lately "been: .successful ia passing the R.A.F. .promotion examination, to the rank of FliglitLieutenant. He is at present stationed in the Training Squadron, School of Army Co-operation, Old Sarum, Salisbury, where ho has been posted j for special duty as adjutant.
Mr. James McParland, who has ter-< ruinated a long'lease of the Hotel. Cecil,' was the guest at a gathering of co.m." mercial travellers and others at the hotel -yesterday. In presenting : th» guest of honour with a handsome caso of pipes, Mr.'E. T; Taylor paid a ; tribute to Mr. ■ McParland }s- sterling qualities. In reply, , Mr. McParlani said he had been connected with tho hotel for 32 years. At [ first ho was associated with his father, and on- hi« death he took over the licence. "Mr. McParland expressed, thanks- for, th& honour that had been done him.,
Messrs. P. Priest (Pahiatua); ~ A, Johnston (Dunedin), A. H. Forbes, W. A. Hislop, and S. Dyer (Christchurch), and S. Moses (Auckland) are at tho Grand Hotel. ' ■ ' . '
Messrs.-S. E. Cooper (Auckland), E. A. Robinson (Gisborne),.J. Burtensha-w (Napier), J. Van Zulea (Sydney), J» Black (Eltham), and Hudson-Davis (Wauganjii) aro at tho Empire Hotel.
Sir J. H. Rhodes (Tai Tapu),; Div Harvey (Napier), Messrs. 0, D. Mc« Ilraith (Christchurch),.C. _G. Mclndoa (Auckland), and F. Meredith, and L. Stevenson (Napier) are at tho Midlaui Hotel, i l . .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 11
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