PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General presided at a meeting of the Executive Council this morning. Later, his Excellency received at Government House Dr. Benedetto d'Acunzo, Royal Italian Consul for New Zealand.

The Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) 'returned to Wellington this morning from the South Island. Mr. G. P..Aldridge, secretary of -the. New Zealand Boxing Council, will" leave for Christchurch at the end bt : the week "on a business trip. ;; Reference' to the death of Mr. 'Hi ; H. Mirams was made-at last night's' meeting of the Wellington Chamberof Commerce and a motion of sym- , pathy with the relatives was passed in silence. Mr. Mirams had been a mem-' ;; ber of the chamber since-1906. ■:'-: Colonel G. W. P. Grattari, Chief Secretary of the Salvation Army in Nevf. ;, = Zealand, arrived from Auckland today,-, by the Limited, express.Mr. F. J. Hutchinson,, deputy chairman of the Auckland Centre, St. John Ambulance Association, arrived today by the Limited express to attend acouncil meeting of the dommandery-or the Venerable Order of St. John. The chairman of the Otago Education Board, Mr. J. Wallace, 0.8.tX. was congratulated by today's meeting of the Wellington Education Board upon the honouri recently conferred * upon him,, members, commenting upon his keen interest in educational matters. Mr. P. R. M. Hanna, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, is visiting the South Island branches of the bank.