PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1938, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) left this afternoon for the north, and will attend the prizegiving ceremonies sat the Dannevirke High School, the Feilding Agriculturall High School, and the Wairarapa College at Masterton. He will return on Friday. The Minister of Lands (the Hon. F. Langstone) will leave for Taumarunui tomorrow night. He expects to return to Wellington on Tuesday. Mr. W. Hickson, the retiriing headmaster of Newtown School, was entertained at morning, tea by tihe Wellington Education Board today, members subsequently ■ making eulogistic references to his long service in the cause of education. Mr. JR. Love (contractor) and Mr. E, M. Bardsley (secretary) of the Dominion Court of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, left for Napier today to meet the Hawke's Bay provincial executive in reference to- their exhibit. . Mr. W. A. Boucher, president of the Bureau of Importers (Inc.), Auckland, arrived by train this momiing and is staykig at the Hotel * St. George; He wHI be conferring with importing interests in the city ? with?'regard to "the new import control regulations. Dr. J. A: Doctor and Mrs. Doctor left Wellington by the Awatea lastnight for a holiday vistfc to England and the Continent They will travel via the East and South Africa and will probably be back about: next September. The Very Rev. Father D. HJ Hurley, formerly Provincial foff* the Society of Mary in Australia aad New Zealand, left Wellington by the Awatea last night for Sydney, whete he will assume the new office of Provincial of the Society in Australia. So great has been the Society's gnowth that its administration in thje> two countries, which has hitherto been centred in, Wellington,, has been divided, and each country will have its own Provincial. The Very Rev. Dr. V. Geaney has taken over from Father 'Hurley in Wellington the office of * Provincial of the Society in the Do&ninion. Mr. T. H. McCtombs, M.P., has been nominated by the Canterbury Moulders' Union as president of the NewZealand Labour Party. \ The election will take plaeie next Easter. The union has also nominated Mr. George Manning as a vice-president of the party. Mr. Edmund. Cross, president of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club, and Mrs. Cross roturned to. Christchurch yesterday after being absent for eight months on a tour of England and the Continent. '■'..'•' Mr. C. E. Lovegrove, a member of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, arrived today by the Limited express. The Rey. S. Hindrnarsh,, who has been in charge of the Papafoa Methodist circuit since April; has resigned from the ministry owing to ill health. Commodore H. E. Horan, Chief of the Navial Staff, arrived today from the north. He was accompanied by Mrs. Horan and Miss Horan. Dr. G, D. Osborne, geologist at Syd-' ney University, will sail from Auckland by the Rangitata on Friday for London. He will undertake research work at Cambridge University.