PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

: The Deputy Prime: Minister-<the Hon. P. Fraser), the Minister of .Defence (th» Hon.vF. Jones), and the Minister df Industries and Commerce ■ (the-Hon. D. G. Sullivan) arrived back-from North Auckland today. - . r • -

The Minister of Public • Works (th.it Hon. R. Semple) arrived-from the south today. ■ ■*. " V

Lieutenant-Commander. H. Rowsell, R.N.R., has been appointed naval officer in charge at Lytteltpn. JHe relieved Commander G. H. D. Dehnistoun, D.5.0., R.N., as from yesterday.

Mr. Frank Goldberg, governing director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, Ltd., of Australia and New Zealand, has arrived in Wellington on a short business visit. , -;

Mr. Beg. Fulton has been appointed treasurer and ex-officio member of the Council of' the Association of New* Zealand Advertisers, Inc.' Mr. Felton is advertising manager of Paramount Pictures. . . ; • • ■') '■'■'

"The Post's" London correspondent advises that Dr. Geoffrey A; Myers, M.8., F.R.CS.V has been gazetted to a lieutenant's commission,- in the R.A.M.C. -■;". .>- V-^^i . - •:■•■

The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. A. Hamilton) arrived in Welling^ s ton from the north this morning.

Mr. R. McKeen, M:P. for Wellington South, and Mrs. McKeen, who have been attending the Centennial celebrations at Wai tangi, returned to Welling--ton.today. - ■'-'■'.

Mr. B. Vinsen, New Zealand managerl of Columbia , Pictures ■ Proprietary» Limited, returned from Auckland today, accompanied by Mr. Cecil Masohi Columbia's general manager for Aus? tralasia, and Mr. Walter Cavili; of Sydney. Mr. Mason, and Mr* Cavili arrived from Sydney by the'^ Monterey on Monday. Mr. Cavili will .leave for the south tonight. ' ' ■- =

Lieui-Colonel A. H. A. Empson is one of several officers gazetted as being restored to the Effective List of the Indian Army, states J'The; Post's" London correspondent. -Colonel Empson, son of the late Mr. W. Empson, of Wanganui, saw considerable service in the Bth Indian Cavalry. He served during the Great War and was mentioned in dispatches. Returning to Indiat in 1919, he was stationed at Poona. Later he became commandant of the Ist Battalion (Prince of Wales's Own), 12th Frontier Force Regiment. Subsequently he was Cdmmandaht of Kit* chener College at Nowgong.