PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. W. Green, who retired recently from the , position, of comptroller of accounts for the. Union Steam Ship Company^ arrived in Wellington. this morning from the south. ■He was accompanied by Mrs. Green. Sir William Ilunt was a passenger to Wellington from Ohristehurch today. The Hon. D. Bii'ddo, M.L.0., arrived here today from the south. \ Dr. Traill Thomson, Duuedin, • arrived in Wellington from^tlie south. thi« morning. Mr. Roland Hill, of'the firm'of Butterworth and Co., London, arrived at Auckland by the Monterey last Friday, and will spend some inqnths .in the Dominion. * Mr. E. Kennedy, general sccrotary-of. the Cooks' and Stewards' Union, is ill, and will he awuy i'rom'the office" for six months. Air. W. B. Walbh has b£cn 'appointed acting- secretary. Dr. E. Gardner, of Dunedin, who wa» president of Section 0 (Pharmaceutical Science) at the Melbourne meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, returned to New Zealand by the Marama yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. Gardner and family will leave for Dunedin tonight.' The Very Rev. Father T. McCarthy, S.M., Superior of the Marist Missioners, returned to Wellington today from Sydney, via .Auckland. After .attending the Eucharistic Congress at Melbourne, Father McCarthy relieved for weeks at St. Patrick's, Church Hill, Sydney. ' _'. Mr. E. S! Cornwell, who is attached to the head office of the Bank of "New South Wales; .Sydney, accompanied by Mrs. Cornwcll, arrived at Auckland today by the Wanganella. -.They-will bs the guests of Dr. and Mrs. A. Barrett Jameson, of Huntly, and later will make a tour of the Dominion. Count Leopold Sternborg, of Czechoslovakia, accompanied by Countess Sternberg, were passengers by the "Wai-' kawa, which arrived at Auckland from Samoa on Saturday morning. They are making a world tour and will visit some of the principal icsorts during their stay in New"Zealaud. - l • The Minister of Public Works' !(th« Hon. J, Kitchener) will visit Nelson this week- in connection with the Hume Pipe Company's application to the Government for -a licence to" develop hydro-electricity in the Cbbb Valley,states "The Post's" Nelson• -correspondent. On Friday the Minister will attend the conference between the* City Council and the Waimea Electric Power Board in regard to electrical supply, and at 11 a.m. will continue, to Taknka to attend the Golden Bay A. and P. Association nntiual show. Sir Arthur Fell, Who died- at '.his house, Wimbledon Common, London, on December 29, at tho age' of 84, was for many years keenly interested "in, tho piercing of the Channel Tutineli.He.was lion, president of the House of Commons Channel Tunnel Committee, and was M.P. for Great. Yarmouth' .from. 1906 to 1022. He'was ( originally'a New Zealander, being born in Nelson in 1850. Sir Walter.Stringer (Auckland), Lieu-tenant-Cofoncl Dawsoii (Christchurch), v Mr. and Mrp. A. Dennison (Auckland), Messrs. W. J. Martin (Martinborough), H. Harris (Dunedin), S. G. McAnorgney (Invercargill), W. J. Poison, M.P. (Stratford), Q. Donald ' (Feather»tqn), and B. Reynolds (Auckland) are at the Royal Oak Hotel. - • - Mr. .- and .Mrs. - Gray (Pongaroa), Messrs.- .G. W. Sellar (Masterton), C. W. Hodge (New. Plymouth),. J. A. Norton (Sydney), J. W. Non-io (Napier), R. Noon (Dunediu), P. Xi. Lawrence (Christchurch), and W. J. Buckley and B. G. Porter (Auckland) are- at tho Empire Hotel. • -_ ;'':'. Dr. and Mrs. Trail] Thomson, and Miss Thomson (England), Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Stevens (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Russell (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. E. Judd .(Melbourne), Dr. Isobel Patterson (Rhodesia); Messrs. W. Scott Stevenson (Sydney), E. A. ' Jones ; (Christchurch), E., 0. Hide (Christchurch). Roland Hill (London), and B. C. Jacobs (Auckland) are .at the Hotel St. George. ' . - - ;, Messrs. J. Gilbert and. D. Wilson (Wanganui), H. E. Denny, L. C. Stamford, and E. Empson (Christchurch),' B. Stark COamaru), C. Martin .(Dunedin), and J. Pettit (Auckland) are at the-Grand Hotel. , . , . Lieutenant-Colonel J. .Selater {Sydney), Maior and Mrs. Weaver. (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Wilson (London), Mr. and Mis., H." C. Hatch (England), Mr. and Mrs.• Hamish 'Wilson (Bulls), Messrs. R. A:-McLean *nd H. M. Fry (Sydney), F. M". Brown; A. Seay, and V. D. Baker (Christchurch), G. E. King (Taumarunui), W. E. Beynolds (San Francisco), and P. Cobbe (Tho Chateau) are at the! • Midland Hotel. ,