PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL,

The following were the guests of their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Galway at dinner at Government House last evening:—Commodore I. G. Glennie and Mrs. Glennie, Mr. T. Mark and Mrs. Mark, Mr. C. A. Berendsen and Mrs. Berendsen, Lieutenant-Colonel T. J. King and Mrs. King, Dr. E. Marsden, the ConsulGeneral for the United States of America and Mrs. Pinkerton, the Consul for Belgium and Madame Nihotte, Major A. J. Edney and Mrs. Edney, Mr. E. L. Riddiford and Mrs. Riddiford, Dr. P. Marshall.Mr. E. Anscombe, Mr. H. Jowett and Mrs. Jowett, Mr.. W, Watson and Mrs. Watson. ...

Mr. H. Leslie-Melville, a former New* Zealander who has spent many years in. Southern Rhodesia as a mining: en* gineer, arrived at Auckland by the Tasman on Tuesday to revisit the: Dominion for the first-time in 45 years!. He was accompanied by his wife. Mr, Leslie-Melville's father, the late Mr. D. S. Melville, was general manager of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, at Wellington, from 1885 to 1891, and Mr. Leslie-Melville was educated at Wellington and Wanganui.

The Rev. Father A. Price, a New Zealander who is attached to St. Columban's Missionary Society -in the Philippine Islands, arrived- att Auckland by the Wanganella from Sydney yesterday to spend a holiday in the* Dominion.

General Sir John Burnett-Stuart; a retired officer of the British Army, who has been touring New Zealand after attending the recent British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Australia, will leave Auckland by the Tamaroa for Southampton tomorrow."

Mr. Justice Quilliam, who hais beea conducting the business of the Supreme Court in Auckland, returned to Wellington by the Limited express today.

Mr. N. Lishner, of Dunedin, ProGrand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, returned by the Awatea today from Sydney after having represented New Zealand at the install lation of Lord Gowrie as Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Australfa. He was accompanied by Mrs: .Lishiier.

The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. A. Hamilton) will leave Wellington tonight for Frankton Junction. :He is to speak at Hamilton on Friday, and on the same evening will deliver a 15----minute broadcast speech from Auckland. He will speak later at the Auckland Town Hall, and will return to Wellington by air. -

Mr. A. N. Leslie, chief assistant to the management of the Union Steani Ship Company, accompanied by ;M_rs, Leslie and their son, returned .to Wellington by the Awatea today after a holiday visit to Australia. .-

A tribute to the memory of the late Mr. James Kerr Was * paidby tiifc Mayor of Petone (Mr; George London) at the meeting of the Petone Fire Board on Tuesday. "That large and' .representative gathering and most beautiful floral tributes illustrated in. no uncertain manner the .great respect in which our late* chairman "was held," said Mr. London. "Mr. Kerr h*ad been a, friend to ; many, particularly during^the depression years.""'/., Members of the Automobile Association (Wellington), at their, annual meeting last evening, carried a reso-* lution of sympathy with the relatiyea of Mr. A. de Bathe Brandon.rand Mr. H. W. Lloyd, two. early officers, of : tfeje association -whose .deaths . occuflfed during the year. In movingvthe resolution, the president of the ; association (Sir' Alexander Roberts) said .that .the late Mr. Brandon had been tion member of the associatioh, president from 1907 to 1912, and ultimately a life member. Mr. Lloyd Had joined the association in 1915, was a member of the committee? firom 1915 to 1923, and. a vice-president tfrdm 1921 to 1928. Both men had given notable service to the cause of motorists-amd motoring.