PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL.

At Government House yesterday his Excellency the Governor-General presented to Sir. George Troup the Letters Patent conferring- upon him the honour of a Knight Bachelor.

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, attended by Captain R. StuartFrench, A.D.C., left Wellington this morning for Stratford, where he will formally open the Stratford Agricufc tural and Pastoral Show tomotrow; '

Colonel E. Miles, Officer-Command-ing-Northern Command, who will leaya Auckland on Saturday for London, to undergo a year's course .of instruction at the Imperial Defence College, was tendered a farewell dinner- by members of the Auckland Officers' Club last week, when numerous speakers conveyed to him the best wishes of his New Zealand friends for his future success. " •■•'■■ • ' ■

Mr. Walter Green and Mr. G. It Ritchie, directors of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived in Wellington from the south this morning. s-»..

The' Rev. H. F. Ault, vicar of . St. Andrew's parish, Oxford, has been appointed organising secretary: of th« Anglican Board of Missions, with headj quarters at Christchurch. He will take up his new duties on May U 1938. : : '■._

Mr. E. F. D. Clarke, a well-known Australian horse breeder,, accqmpan*' ied by Mrs. Clarke and their niece. Miss Doris Bradford, arrived at Auck'i lana on Monday by theMariposa from Sydney, to spend a fishing holiday at Rotorua. They expect to. be in, N^w* Zealand, about five months,

The Rev. C. W. Haskell,who was awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal for services at Karachi, India,, where he has been in charge-of the Anglican Mission Station for the last six years, will, arrive in Auckland by the Strathmore this week. He i» accompanied by his wife -and two children. Mr. Haskell was in Ash*, burton before he left for India.,

Sir Benjamin Fuller will leave for, the south tonight.

Mr. A.W. Nisbet, secretary of th# Wellington Manufacturers' Association,has returned to Wellington after visi iting Hawke's. Bay arid Wanganui, where he attended meetings of manufacturers in connection with problems arising out of imports.

Tributes to the, services rendered by Mr. M.,G.C. McCaul during his term of office as president of.the Associated Chambers of Commerce were paid, at last night's meeting of the council ol the- Wellington- Chamber '. of Com-. merce; Several speakers made:special reference- to the presidential address delivered by Mr. McCauj at the recent conference at Timaru. ■-.-. ■-■..-.. , • -

Messrs. C. A. Philpott, son'of-Mr. A,": C. Philpott, Seatotin Heights, Wellihg* ton; and J. D.McKenzie are going to. England with a view to gaining further aviation experience. Both- hold their ground engineers' licences as well' as pilots' A licences, and, until' their resignations recently, have been em« ployed by 'Cook Strait Airways. Neither intends remaining overseas, their plans being to return to New Zealand and secure betteiv positions. Mr. Philpott proposes devoting some time to the study of airport management and control at the principal aerodomes in England, a subject in which he is keenly interested. Both intend joining the Air Force Reserve to gain further flying experience. They are to leave' Auckland by the Awatea on Saturday for : t Sydney, iwhither they ! are4o connect;with the Strathmore, v • The funeral "of the late Mr. Philip de"la Mare BarCham, who .died"- at Hanmer Springs on • Monday, : took' place today,' and was largely attended. The interment took place in'the Soldiers' Cemetery, Kareri. The service waf' conducted- by the Rev: H. E. K. Fry, after which' a'Returned Soldier's's'er-': vice .was ■ conducted by Mr>' ■.William. Bryce, poppies being dropped ■in-ths, grave at the conclusion. -The .pall* bearers-were-Colonel A.CoWIBs sident of- the Wellington R.S.-AO, and.; Messrs. H. J. Shanks, E.-R. Morgan,D. -Alabaster,' Ev Dean,', and J. Spencd (secretary.' of j the- Wellington:: TtvS.A,)y: Among those-.,present, were- the Mm»; ister of Health (the Hon.'-P. Fraser.),Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., Colonel A.. A, Corfigaftj Major-. Power*, and=,Mr. A,. J. Nimmo. ■;:■■■■.*■.■■■^■■■■.-■■;:.-- ,}■:: ■'■'/.■