PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Alan C. Browne, the well-known water-colour artist and lecturer, who has been lecturing throughout New Zealand for the past, three years on New Zealand's scenic attractions, will leave by the Karamea from Auckland on September .6 en route .to England, via Cape Horn. %)uring this period he has worked up two fresh.fully-il- . lustrated lectures on New Zealand, one being the Alpine one (which has been seen in Wellington and throughout the country) and the other a- general lecture on the North Island. Mr. Browne will deliver his lectures throughout Britain and America, many engagements already having" . been made, the first being for October 15, two days after his , arrival in England. He has been appointed by the Dominion Settlement Association to act officially on its behalf during his tour.. Mr. H. M. Christie, M.P.,.who returned to. Auckland, by. the Rangitane last night from London, left by air today to attend a meeting of the Wool Research Committee at Wellington. Mr. J. Thorn, M.P., who also returned, left by motor for Thames. " Dr. White, Professor of -Physics, Canterbury College,. • returned to Christchurch last night. Accompanied by Rt; Rev. Monsignor Connolly, V.F., and the Rev. Dr. A. J. Mcßae, his Grace Archbishop O'Shea, S.M., left Wellington by car on Tuesday last. Travelling via New- Plymouth, the party arrived at Auckland on Wednesday, and his Grace left by the Rangitata yesterday: for England, en route to Rome. On the occasion of his former visit "ad limina'' to Rome, in 1922, the Archbishop journeyed via the United States and returned by the same route. This time his Grace is travelling via Panama. While in England his Grace, wiU.gain experience of conditions of Catholic ; education and of the general development of the church there/as well as explore the possibilities of arranging for special visitors for the Centenary in 194,0. After his "ad limina" visit to Rome hi? Grace will return to New Zealand in about six months'- time, travelling via the United States and Canada. Mr. P. Harrison was last. night elected a life member of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association. Mr, A. G. Henderson, chairman of the management committee, eulogised Mr. Harrison's work for tennis as a vicepresident of the Auckland Association in 1930-33, president in 1933-36, vice-president of the New Zealand Association in 1933-35, and president in 1937. He knew no one., Mr. Henderson said, who had done as much for tennis as Mr. Harrison had and no one who deserved the honour as much. Representatives of various associations spoke in a similar strain and .the newly-elected president, Dr. J. Fulton, presented Mr. Harrison with his lifemembership badge. Mr. Henderson thanked those who had helped him and referred to the many people who, unnoticed, were doing, much for the. game. Mr. H. M. McGirr, a former Wellington and New Zealand cricket representative, who is coach at Nelson College, is on a visit to Wellington. Mr. A. A. Adams, a South Island and former New Zealand Rugby football selector, arrived in Wellington today from the West Coast. Mr. A. J. Levick, railway staff superintendent, Mr. V. J. Stanley, general secretary of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute, and Mr. J. S. Roscoe, first division representative on the Railways Appeal Board, returned to Wellington from Auckland today. Professor A. Findlay, professor of chemistry in the University of Aberdeen, arrived at Auckland by ihe Rangitane from London last night with Mrs. Findlay on a visit of some weeks to New Zealand. Professor Findlay is an external examiner in chemistry to the University of New Zealand, atid during his stay he will confer with the university authorities and with teachers in the constituent colleges.. Mr. F. Maurice Clarke, manager of Union Airways of New Zealand, Limited, will shortly proceed to Australia (Melbourne and Sydney), thence.by the Empire air route to London , pn business for his company. He expects to return to New Zealand towards the end of the year. Mr. W. Higgins, of W^lington, who has been visiting England, returned to Auckland by the Rangitane yesterday, and came on to Wellington this morning by air.