PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Speaker of the House of Representatives (the Hon. W. E. Barnard) i 3 at present in Wellington.

The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) is to leave Wellington- tomorrow afternoon for Blenheim and Kaikoura. He is to return to Wellington on Sunday.

The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) is expected to return to Wellington tomorrow from the south.

Mr. A. C. A. Sexton, M.P. for Franklin, is visiting Wellington. ~ .

The Hon.-H. G. Hawkins, M.L.C., of Adelaide, who has been touring •■• the South Island, returned to Wellington this morning. He will leave again on. Friday for a tour of the North Island.

The honour conferred upon Sir George Troup, X.8., by the King was referred . to, by the chairman of tha Wellington Harbour Board (Mr. D. J. McGowan) at the meeting of the board last night. Sir George had served.on the board for two years, he said, and it was also .known to the board howhe had served the city in an exemplary-, way. He expressed the congratulations of the board.

Councillor J. Burns, chairman of th* reserves committee of the City Council, has returned to Wellington from a North Island tour, considerably inW proved in health.

Mr. H. A. Toogood (Wellington) .iSj visiting the south and expects to r&* turn at the end of this week.

.Mr. C. A. Whitney, of Auckland, and, Mr. Frank Dyer left for Picton yester-> day on their way to ChristcburchJ They propose to fish for, quinnat. sal-j mon in the Rakaia and other river* in the south.

The Rev. S. B. R. Corbin, vicar ofi Ormondville, Hawke's Bay, has been! appointed to succeed the Rev. A. G, Dawson, vicar of St. George's Church, Thames, who will shortly leave ".forf England. .

The Hon. Mr. Justice Whitley, a rest* dent Judge of the Supreme: Court in] the Federated Malay' States, who has been spending a short holiday in New; Zealand, left Auckland by the/Aorangii on Tuesday on his way to England.

Mr. Glion Curtis, juri., of Webstel) Groves, Missouri, who has been appointed Vice-Consul for the United; States in Wellington, will arrive z% Auckland by the Monterey tomorrow, accompanied by Mrs.. Curtis.. .

Mr. W. H. Love, who has been oil the staff of the State Forest Service" in. Palmerston North for the past .two. years, has been appointed to the aero« dromes branch of the Public Works Department at Wellington,. and takes up his new duties on March 1. Mr. Love's successor is Mr. C. S. Panting, of the Lands and Survey Department, Auckland. ,■ <■

Mr. J. A. Milburn, who has been; postmaster at Government Buildings! since 1926, and who is to; take up the* position of postmaster at Wellington East, was farewelled this week and-pre-sented with a tokenof esteem from -thai staffs of the State Departments in'the* building.' The presentation was mada by Mr. J. W. Heenan (Under-Secre-tary of Internal Affairs), who referred; to Mr. Milburn's long service at'the Government Buildings. The Chief Postmaster (Mr. J. Madden) was als« present. . I