PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL,

The following were the guests of his Exc .ncy the Governor-General at a dln,i,?r party held at Government House last evening:—The Right Honourable Sir Earle Page (Deputy Prims Minister of Australia), Sir ..James Grose, Sir James Elliott, Mr. G. E. Critchley, Mr. R. Addison, Mr. H. P. F. Blundell, Mri U. Ellis. ' .

Mr. W. C. Harley, S.M., left Wellington yesterday by the Maui Pcmare for Samoa, where he will take up his , position as Chief Judge of the Hign Court.

> Mr. J. N. Grant, whose death was reported on Monday, was a former -official of the Wellington Rugby Union. - Reference to his death was made at last night's meeting of the management committee and a vote, of sympathy with his relatives was passed.

Mr. Gordon Reid was elected chair- - man of the Wellington branch of tha . Navy League at its meeting last evening- . i N, - Word has been received that: Dr. . Russell Fraser, M.R.C.P. (London), son r of Mr. Malcolm • Fraser, has been - awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship on. .j the recommendation of the Medical Research Council of London. The . Fellowship is tenable for a year, and - Dr. Fraser proposes to work at centres in the United States in the special field of psychiatry, neurology, and re- . lated subjects.' Dr. Fraser is at pre-, I sent .assistant medical officer 'at Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, " London. He is an old boy of Scots College and a graduate of Otago Uni- - versity. Mr. W. F. Fowlds, of Auckland, while on a holiday visit to Scotland recently, presented a flag of the Auckland Rotary Club to the Kilmarnock" Club at a luncheon, as a gesture of good will and friendship. Mr. Fowlds is - a member of the Auckland Club and his father, the late Sir George Fowlds, - was the founder of Rotary in New Zealand. Mr. S. Elliott Napier, Australian' journalist and author, until recently, assistant editor of the "Sydney Mail," is in Auckland on a visit to his son," Mr, C. E. Napier. Sir Benjamin Fuller arrived from. - Auckland today by the Limited express. ■ . . Mr. J. W. Heenan, Under-Secretayy - of ;the Department of Internal Affairs, ' returned to Wellington by the Limited express today. , t : Mr. Oscar. Mcßrine, of the Labour' Department, Auckland, 'who, since the coming into force of the Fair Rents Act, has been in charge of its administration in Auckland, has retired. , , Mr. H. Van Staveren, son of Mr. B. . Van Staveren, of Wellington, who has' been residing in London for the' past, two years, returned to Wellington by the Maunganui today. Mr. R. Lindsay Arlow, of Welling- . ton, returned today 'by the Maunganui ' after a visit to Australia. ' Mr, A. H. Taylor, naval architect to ' the Union Steam Ship Company, returned by the Maunganui today from' Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rees-Jones, of Wellington, with Miss M. Rees-Jones. who have been on a holiday visit to Australia, returned to Wellington by the Maunganui today. Mr. G. A. Maddison,' Mayor of Hast- - ings, and National Party candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat- at the General ■ Election, returned today by the Mau-s nganui after visiting Australia.