PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 71, 21 September 1936, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The resignation of Mr. D. P. Thurston, headmaster of the Gonville School, has been received by the Wanganui. Education Board. Mr. Thurston has been in the service of the board for 43 years. The death of Mr. J. W. Matthew Son, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, was referred to at the combined shipping companies' annual smoke concert, at the Town Hall on Saturday night, and on thd"» motion of the chairman, Captain S. ;H6lm, those ■present stood in silence. . PaymasterCommander E. R. Tottenham, R.N., said that Mr. Matthewson had been a very good friend of the naval service, to which he had given assistance in many ways, .including granting leave to officers of the Union-Company for training in naval vessels from time ,to time. • . i • ■ .;. The Rt. Hon. R..8. Bennett arrived at Wellington from Lyttelton yesterday morning. •"■«,■' : >'';■ : ' Sir Cecil Leys arrived.at Wellington from the south yesterday morning. Brigadier-General J. Heane, .president of the New South Wales Fruitgrowers' Federation-' Colonel ; E.- E. Herrod, secretary of.'.the federation; and Mr, P. S. McDermott, a principal of a large' Sydney fruit brokering firm, will visit Auckland,next week. Before going to Wellingtonion official business they propose to visit citrus; fruit areas in Auckland. , Professor W. Mohr, of the Dairy Research Institute; Kiel University, visited Massey College and dairy farms near Palmerston North on Wednesday. He is to leave for Australia on October 2. ; . - . Messrs. G. G. Bristow (Sydney), J. A. C. Allum (Auckland), D. P. and D. G. Garrick (Christchurch), Robert Tuck (Waikato), J. N. Tait (Hastings). R. S. Scott (Napier), L. White (Dunediri), T. Thompson (Hawke's Bay), F. G. Lilbert (Melbourne), T. R. Crump (Adelaide), J. V. Gow (London), and R.. Knowles (Kaitaia) are recent arrivals at the Midland Hotel. Messrs. H. B. Duckworth and G. H. Burson (Christchurch), G. L. Wil'ms (Sydney), J. N. Sahdtmarin and A. McDougall (Napier) are guests at the Grand Hotel. ' Messrs. R. Goldstone •■ (Wairoa),- J. Jenkins and J. K. O'Leary (Helensville), S. Sampson and J. H. Edwards (Russell), S. Ellingham and J. Harrison (Tauranga), H. J. Lancaster (Hawera),' E. Irvine and F. Chapman (Auckland), J. Barnes, H. U. Adamson, and F. L. Kirkealdie (Wanganui), R. R. Eaglesomp and Wl. I. Jenkins (Palmerston North) are guests at ' the Empire Hotel. : Sir..James Steele Maitland (London), Dr. Clayes (San Francisco), and Messrs. W. Effey (Brisbane), J. E. Sewell (Christchurch), F.Mohr (Germany), B. Goldberj (Christchurch), C. Brown (Dunedin), A. T. Wallis. (Greymouth), G. Trjppner (Ruatapu), C. M. Croft and,A. Harvey (Auckland), and G.H. Exeter (London) are guests at the Hotel St. George. * ■ Messrs. N. Layer and W. ■ Owen (Christchurch), N. D. O'Flaherty. and N. J. Talbot (Rotorua) are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. ,