PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J.i.A'. .Overdiep, ■: director o£ Philips Lamps (Australasia) Ltd., who has been on a short business visit to New-Zealand, leaves for Auckland ..Jxk day. He will join the' Niagara . ■foe Sydney.

Mr. Arthur Rosser, J.P., a member of the. Auckland City Council, arrived in Wellington this morning en route to Timaru to attend the annual municipal . conference. - -.-_■; - - - : J

• Dr. : Karl; Popper,; the newly-appo|nj> ed lecturer in Education.and Philosophy"' at Canterbury; University ■ College,' and Mrs; Popper,' are due to' arrive in Wellington on ' March . 12; By the Eangitata. (states the "Press")..-It is expected that they will be. .ill Christchurch on • March 13. Dr. Popper, who is-34, is an Austrian,' and was born ■ in, Vienna. - He was educatr ed at the Franz Josef Gymnasium and at the University of Vienna, where he received the degree of. P.h.D. ■ The branch of Philosophy in which;-Dr. Popper, is - mainly interested is formal logic and : its application to scientific method. His book, "The Legic of Discovery," is regarded as authoritative. He is; also, interested in ethical- and social' problems. Although his wortc is primarily concerned with- abstract problems and-procedures, he has maintained contact with natural and social science, "believing that philosophy and practice are capable of mutual stimulation; Dr. Popper has ( lectured several times- in England. * Most of :hi3 life has-been.-spent'in-Austria but'he has travelled fairly : extensively on,the Continent. - Dr.. Popper's ■ hobbies \ in*> elude- photography, art, architecture,, and music: He studied music at-thai; Institute of the History of Music,.:in Vienna,- also giving ;some attention. *to; composition. ■---■■ - - -. - rV-r Mr. F.N. Ambler, president of tie' Auckland Manufacturers' Association, was a passenger- for. Auckland by the Limited express last night. i, -

Mr. P. N. Jeffreys was a passenger1-, to. Wellington the Wahine •■ this' morning. -. ■>■■■. .:--;■-

The Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., a'i>, rived at Wellington this morning frorri the south. : ■■ V'1

Mr. C. H. Chapman, :m!p., who" left' for Mount Cook on Wednesday, will return to Wellington towards the end.' of next week. He is accompanied by; his sister* from England. ''.'...-

The Rev.S. E. Woods has arrived* at Christchurch from England-to take thepost: of assistant principal of .College; House, the university hostel, and theo-^ logical hall, associated with■• Christ's College. Mr.. Woods will also be engaged in organising work for,the Sty? dent Christian Movement: . ...

Lord McGowan, chairman' and man» r aging director of Imperial Chemical In- j dustries and a leading British industrialist, arrived at Auckland from' Rotorua on Thursday ■to -: the course ', of a tour of New Zealand. He will leave by the Monterey-on. Monday e'tt route to England. ---".' ••■■• -. -:-■>"