PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), who is to preside over the Supreme Court session in Hamilton, will leave for the north on Sunday.

Mr. Justice Kennedy, a member of the Court of Appeal which has been sitting in Wellington for some weeks, will leave for Dunedin' tonight. He will preside over the Dunedin Supreme Court session which begins on Monday.

Mr. Justice Callan will leave for Auckland on Sunday night, after spending some weeks in Wellington as a member of the Court of Appeal. He is to take the Auckland Supreme Court session, beginning on Monday.

Mr. Justice Northcroft, who has been sitting as a member of the Court of Appeal in Wellington for, some weeks, will leave for Christchurch tomorrow night. ' He is to preside over the Supreme Court session at Timaru on May 3, and at the Christchurch session beginning on May 10..

Mr. Justice Blair is to leave Wel« lington on Sunday ' for Palmerston. North, where he will preside' over the Supreme Court session. Later he willgo to Wanganui and New Plymouth. ■

Tlie chief engineer of the Public Works Department, and chairman of the Main Highways Board, Mr. John Wood, will leave Auckland for Sydney" today by the Wanganella. Mr. Wood' will be absent from New Zealand for about two months, and will make astudy of irrigation works, highway, systems, and the construction of aer<>« dromes in New South Wales and Victoria. He will be accompanied bjr Mrs. Wood.

Mr. W. E. Anderson, secretary of theAuckland Employers' Association, arrived today by the Limited express.

Mr. K. R. Johnston, pilot instructor to the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club, has resigned his position with the club and has accepted an appointment with Cook Strait Airways,' Limited.

' Dr. W. J. Wiley, of the Australian-' Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, who has been attached to the staff of the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute for' some time under a reciprocal arrangement, left Auckland for Australia this week' t» attend two important conferences. Ha will return to New Zealand in June;

Mr. Andrew Cyril O'Connor, a men> ber of the staff of the Supreme Court, was today admitted by Mr. Justice Reed as a barrister and . solicitor of. the Supreme Court, on the application, of Mr: T. P. Cleary. /

Professor T. A. Hunter, vice-chan-. cellor. of the. University of New Zealand, is to confer the degrees at ths annual graduation ceremony of Victoria University, to be held, on- May 13. The chancellor, the Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., advised the college council last evening that he would be unable to be present, as he would, be making a visit to Australia at that' time. ■ ■ • ...

Dr. W. R. B, Oliver and Mr. B, C, Aston have been redppointed by the Government as members of the Coun?; cil of the Royal Society of New Zealand. ' ' :" "

Mr. Len J. Greenberg, of Diihedin, was the guest speaker at the V.M.C.A. Optimists' Club luncheon this week..

Mr. H. E. Wilson, who was musical director of the V.M.C.A. Optimists' and "70" Clubs for some years, and who leaves shortly for England, was the recipient of a presentation of a travelling rug at the Optimists' luncheon' this week. -.-...