PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

i The Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) left Wellington by the ' . Limited express last night for ■ Auckiland. He will return on Monday morning. ' < Sir Cecil Leys arrived from the south by the steamer express today. The Rev. H. G. Gilbert, of St. | Andrew's Church, Hamilton, arrived in Wellington this morning and will conduct the Sunday School anniversary services in St. John's, Church, Willis Street, tomorrow. Messrs. F. B. Aburn and E. F. Casey, of the Land and Income Tax Department, will leave Wellington tomorrownight for Auckland to connect with the Maunganui ■ for Australia, where' their will inspect the taxation departments. Mr. G. C. Weston, son of Mr. W. C. Weston, managing-director of the "Taranaki Herald," New Plymouth, iaa Canterbury University College nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship. Captain J. Spence, of Wellington, is the new Dominion headquarters Commissioner for Sea Scouts. His accept?" ance of the position, which has been vacant for some years, was announced by the Dominion Chief Commissioner. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bruner, of Dcs Moines, lowa, U.S.A., with their family, are on a holiday visit to New Zealand, and are at present, visiting Wel» lington. -•••-■ Mr. W. B. Carey, of "Christchurch,, was unanimously appointed president of the South Island Motor Union at the annual meeting yesterday. Appreciation of the services of the retiring president (Dr. S. A. Gibbs, Of Nelson), not only in his year of office, but over, many years of activity. in motoring organisations was recorded in th« minutes.