PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 140, 16 June 1939, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL.

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Lord Galway) left Tauranga this morning to inspect the TokaanuTaumarunui road this. afternoon. He will stay tonight at - Chateau Tongariro and will arrive at Wellington tomorrow afternoon.- - Professor E. A. Seagar, of London, accompanied by his wife, arrived at - Wellington by the Tamaroa yesterday ■ afternoon. They are going on to Sydney, and are on a holiday trip. Mr. R. W. Hawke has been appointed the Government representative oh the New Zealand Poultry Board. Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Jefferd,' late of the Middlesex Regiment, Eng- . land, arrived by the Tamaroa yesterday to visit relatives in the Dominion. Captain J. H. Gaskell, R.D., R.N.R.,"" of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, who has been appointed the company's marine superintendent for' the South Island,; in succession to Captain A. J. Charman, .arrived from England by the Tamaroa yesterday to take , up his new appointment. He will make his home at Christchurch. " Squadron-Leader M. S. Keogh, of the Royal Air Force, England, arrived by the Tamaroa yesterday to take up a five years',appointment as Royal New.. Zealand Air Force instructor at Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch. Mr. A. W. Beaven, of Christchurch, ■ who has spent a year abroad, returned by the Tamaroa yesterday. Squadron-Leader M. F. ' Calder, of Christchurch, who has. completed eight • years' comriiissioned service with the . Royal Air Force, returned by the Tamaroa yesterday. He is to take up an appointment as Royal New Zealand Air Force instructor at Wigram aerodrome. Mr. A. W. Schaef, one of the pioneers' of flying in Wellington, was elected a • life member of the Wellington Aero Club at the annual meeting last even? ingCongratulations on the honour that was conferred upon him by the King in the recent birthday honours list for " his services to education, were extended to Professor Sir Thomas Hunter at the annual graduation ceremony at Massey Agricultural College yesterday. The Council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, at its meeting this week, adopted a resolution congratulating Professor Hunter. It was mentioned that such a congratulation ■came very appropriately from the . society after its long association with ; Sir Thomas Hunter on Universitymatters with which the' society was concerned. Mr. W. H. Ingrams, resident adviser to the Sultan of Mukalla, has left on a visit to Malaya and India, states a British Official Wireless message from .' Rugby. % Mr. H..D. Acland, Christchurch, was a passenger from the south this morn- , ing. Mr. H. H. Dobie, manager at Dunedin for the Union Steam Ship Company, accompanied by Mrs. Dobie, arrived at •' Wellington from the south this morning. Mr. A. S. Elworthy, Timaru, arrived;, at Wellington from: the south this morning.

Mr. T. F. Reilly, of the literary staff of the "Dominion," has been appointed to the Hansard staff. Mr. Reilly has represented the "Dominion" in the Parliamentary Press Gallery for the past ten years. He is a former chairman of the Gallery. In 1936 he accompanied the Government delegation to Western Samba as the" special representative of the United Press Association.