PERSONAL ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS.

VICEREGAL. ' '-*" The Governor-.General and:is4s Bledisloe were present at the screening of the film "White Ensign" at the Ds Luxe ,Theatre last evening. A , His Excellency will be. the-guest of tho New Zealand Company of Master Mariners at its annual dinner at the Hotel St. George this evening. ' On Monday morning' the GovernorGeneral will leave Wellington for Wanganui, where he will open during the afternoon tho Exhibition at the- Sar 7 joant Gallery of. the Empire Art-Loan Society's collection of contemporary., British art. His Excellency will visit the Wanganui Development League's afforestation camp for youths on. Tuesday morning, and will return to Wellington the same evening. Mr. John Farrell, representing J. 0. Williamson,.Ltd., arrived in Wellington yesterday to complete arrangements for "the production of "The Dubarry" and "Waltzes from Vienna." Mr. Allan J;- Bartlett was recently decorated with the Polar Medal by the King aboard the Royal yacht at Cowes.Mr. Bartlett was a member, of the. British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31. Three members. of, the expedition: who are already in possession of tho.medal have received an additional clasp, and Mr. Bartlett is. one of . the, 55 others who have gained the - award' for the first time. ■' The silver. Polar Medal was established by King Edward in 1904 for award to members of Captain. Scott's Antarctic Expedition in the Discovery, 1901-1904. -.-...-,■■ ' Tho British Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. Elliot, announced- recently in. the House of Commons that Lieut.Colonel Sir John Chancellor had agreed fo. act as chairman of the Cattle Committee to be set up under the. Cattle Industry Act, with Sir Francis Boys as vice-chairman. The Committee will advise Ministers,;in the administration of the cattle fun,d, from which, payments will be made 1 to farmers.

"The Post's" London correspondent;advises that Mr. John Macmillan, Alanaging director of the■ Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, has joined the .board of Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Mr. and Mrs.,&. N. church), Captain'B. Fraser (Dunedih), Dr. S. W. Lambert (Suva), Mr; aii'd' Mrs. L. H. Nuland (Honolulu), Mr. and Mrs: C. J. Duncan i(Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Church (Hong Kong), Messrs. D. J. Holdcn (Hawke's Bay), J. Monteath, and T. Chapman (Christcnurch), A. P. Penman, C. E. Clarke, and B. S. v Campbell (Auckland), 'P. Martin (London), B. Kerridge (Gisborne), and W. J. Hodges, and H. A. Miller (London) are at the Hotel St. George. Messrs. S. Steedman and 1., Mclntyre (Wangariui), - B. Cunningham (Auckland), and. H. Marshall (Dunedin) are at. the Grand, Hotel, '■ Mr. and Mrs. G. E, Fowler (Waipiw kurau), Messrs.,.F. G.. Young, B. C.. Hurrey, and T. A. .Felton (Auckland), and E. Marbey (Christehurch) are at the Empire Hotel. . '■:"'■. ••,. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dicken (Opotiki), Messrs. E. F. Moody and A. C. Fogarty (Auckland), L.' C. MeSkimming' (Queenstown), ■M. B. Coalbroke (Pembroke), C. McNaughton (Ida Yalley), J. Mcintosh (Oturehua), P. B. Fraser (Lander), T. L. .Drury (Banfurly), I. C. Carter (Middlemarch), and G. G. Hathaway (Opotiki), aro.at the Eoyal Oak Hotel. Brigadier-General and. Mrs. A. F. Home (London), Messrs. J. L. Webb, L. Napier, and G. D. Lewis (Auckland), W. W. Diamond and E, S. SeadU (Christehurch), and F. W. Mason and A. M. Alport (Sydney) are at tlia' Midland Hotel. .