PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. This morning his Excellency the Governor-General presided at a meeting of representatives of the Dominion branches of the Navy League. The Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) left for Auckland yesterday to represent the .Government at a civic farewell to the Anglican Primate of New Zealand, Archbishop A. W. Averill. Mr. W. S. Wheeler has been appointed Consul for Portugal at Wellington. Mr. Fergus B. Campbell, of the Union Steam Ship Company's seagoing staff, has been gazetted Paymaster SubLieutenant in the Royal Australian, Naval Reserve (Seagoing) with seniority as from October 15, 1939. A motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. J .A. Milburn, who was chairman of the council of the New Zealand Football Association and a prominent supporter of the Diamond Football Club, was passed at the annual meeting of the club. The Hon. Sir Francis Frazer (Wellington), Sir Cecil Leys (Auckland), and Bishop Kempthorne (Polynesia) arrived from the south today. Dr. F. J. Gwynne, president of the Auckland division of the British Medical Association, will leave Auckland by the Monterey tonight on a short visit to Sydney. Mr. A. G. Stephenson, of Melbourne, who has reported on hospital designs for the Auckland and Wellington Hospital Boards at different times, is expected to arrive at Auckland by the Monterey today after studying special hospital developments in Great Britain. Mr. R. T. Smith, of Westland, has been appointed district engineer of the Public Works Department for the North Auckland district in succession to Major R. H. Packwood, who has left to assume command of the Survey Company in the Expeditionary Force. Mr. *J. J. W. Pollard, director of the South Island Travel Association, who has been visiting his home in Christchurch, returned to Wellington this morning to resume his duties at the Exhibition. Mr. H. W. Thompson, of Christchurch, will return south tonight.