PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The High Commissioner for the United Kingdom and Lady Batterbee1 on Friday afternoon entertained the. New Zealand, Australian, and Unitedj Kingdom delegates to the defence conference and others associated with thej conference. About a' hundred guests, were present. The Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) left for New Plymouth1 today to inaugurate the railcar service between New Plymouth and Welling-i ton, on behalf of the Minister of Rail* ways (the Hon. D. Cv Sullivan).

Mr. Arthur Terence Maxwell, a director of the Union Bank, is on his way to New Zealand,, via the United States, and is due to. arrive at Auckland on May 12 by the Mariposa. He is a son of the late Brigadier-General Sir Arthur Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell is, accompanied by his wife, who is a. daughter of the late Sir Austen Cham-, berlain. They plan.to leave New Zealand for Australia on June 9.

The Rey. J. C, McCaw 7 of the Ta Puke Presbyterian Church, has accepted a call to St. David's Church, Upper Hutt.

Mr. W. H. Cadwallader, who has been, in 'charge of the .Labour Department in. Palmerston .North, fias been permanently appointed to the charge of the Dunedin branch of the Department, v :. :

Major B. E. William-Powlett, an English visitor who has been in the Dominion for six weeks trout fishing, arrived from Auckland today by the Limited express.

Mr. K. D. Anderson, of the Dunedin Technical College, has been appointed assistant master at the Wanganui Technical College, in place of the late Mn G. R. Haldane. Before going to Dunedin, Mr. Anderson was on the' staff of the Takapuna: Grammar School, AucMand. ; •

Mr. Justice O'Regan, who is at pre* sent in- hospital, was reported thii afternoon to be showing-further in*» proyement.