PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 11

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 . .