PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General presided at a meeting of the Executive Council during the forenoon. This morning at Government House the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament, attended by several members of the Legislature, presented to the Governoi>General the Addresses in Reply to the Speech delivered by his Excellency on the occasion of the re- , cent opening of Parliament, Their Excellencies Lord and Lady > Galway were present at the Navy ' League lunqheon today. 1 The Minister of Labour (the Hon. 3 H. T. Armstrong) arrived in Welling* i ton from the south this morning. 5 Mr, D. A. Ewen, accompanied by . Mrs. Ewen, arrived in Wellington from t the south this morning. Sir Francis Frazer, chairman of the 1 Executive Commission of Agriculture, £ will leave Wellington for the south tonight. ' Archdeacon H< Mayo-Harris, of the t Diocese of Polynesia, has been in Eng- . land since June on a special mission in connection with raising an endowment * fund of £10,000 for the bishopric be- ■ fore 1941, He has been preaching and t speaking in many dioceses, and has t bookings until the beginning of De- - cember. On December 16, aecom- » panied by his wife and daughter, Jia 2 will leave for Wellington by the r Remuera. Mrs. Mayo-Harris and her r daughter will remain in New Zealand for about six weeks on a visit to Mrs. s Mayo-Harris's parents at Port Chalmers, Mr. J. D. Leckie, of Upper Hutt, has been transferred to the Waverley branch of the Bank of Australasia, and will take up his new duties on Octo- ® ber 27. 1 Mr. C. F. Taylor, of the staff of the railway workshops at East Town, Wa- ? nganui has been transferred to the Hutt ! workshops, and has taken up his new duties. Mr. Taylor was a pilot memi, ber of the Wanganui Aero Club and a . member of the Ruapehu Ski Club, be--5 ing a skiing instructor at National Park \ Lieut,-Colonel J. H, Will has been appointed Assistant-Director of Medical t Services in the New Zealand Military e Forces (Northern Command). Mr. G. R. Ritchie and Mr. G. W. 3 Rattray, directors of the Union Steam '• Ship Co., arrived in Wellington from 1 the south this morning. } Mr. Justice Ostler will leave Wellington today for Napier and Gisborne to preside at sessions of the Supreme Court there. , Captain W. Whitefield, of the Union t Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. - Ltd., returned to the south last night. 5 Mr, A. H. Honeyfleld, of the Inter. nal Marketing Department, left Wellington last night for the north by tha Limited express, 3 Mr. T. S. Cradock, of Christchurch, j arrived in Wellington yesterday to take » up a position in the Air Force, s The Wellington Education Board's ) sincere sympathies were extended at i today's meeting to Mr. W, H. Jackson. who recently lost his wife and was r himself injured when hi? home in the i Wairarapa was destroyed by fire. | Mr. .C. H. Nicholls was appointed at J today's meeting the Wellington Educaj tion Board's representative on the 1 Children's Health Camp Association. „ Mr. G. H. O. Wilson, M,P, for Rangi« j tikei, who has been in hospital, is expected to be able to leave for his , home at Bulls within the next few I days, but it will be some time -before he is able to resume his Parliamentary; duties. Messrs. J. L. Evans, O. T. Evans, and i B. Balharry left today for Rotorua. Sir Charles Norwood entered a prl- - vate hospital in Wellington last night cto undergo an operation today. The t hope was expressed by his fellow-mem-i bers on the council of the Wellington t Chamber of Commerce last night that 5 he will make a speedy recovery. " Lieut,-Colonel C. E, Bull, of Cape ; Town, arrived at Auckland by the Monterey on Monday from Sydney to 8 spend a. fishing holiday in New Zea-> ' land. j Mr. William Mcßride, district land } registrar and assistant-commissioner of » stamp duties at Blenheim, has received I advice of his transfer on promotion to j Auckland. His successor will be Mr. s A. Fowler, of Christchurch. a i