PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. Government House, Wellington, February 19

His Excellency the Governor-General received Sir Harry Batterbee this afternoon.

February 20,

His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral presided at a meeting of the Shirtcliffe Scholarships Committee this morning.

The Minister of Education and Justice (Mr. Mason) left Wellington today for Auckland. . He will return tomorrow and will leave tomorrow night for Invercargill, where he will open a new courthouse on Tuesday.

The Minister of Health (Mr. Nordmeyer) left Wellington for Auckland last night. He will return to Wellington on Monday!

The Minister of Public Works (Mr. Armstrong) will, return to Wellington tomorrow from the South Island.

Mr J. A. Gilmour, S.M-, was a passenger from Lyttelton today.

Commodore W. E. Parry, C.8., Chief of the Naval Staff, arrived in Wellington from Auckland today.

Mr. J. Barr, city librarian, Auckland, is visiting Wellington.

, Mr. W. H. Cocker, president of Auckland University College, and Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.C., vice-president, arrived tn Wellington today to attend a committee meeting of the New Zealand University Senate,

Flight Lieutenant J. M. Buckeridge, formerly chief assistant to the Controller of Civil Aviation, has been recalled from the retired list of the Royal New Zealand Air Force to serve in the general duties branch,

The Rt. Rev. John Davie, of Masterton, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, is visiting Southland.

The Rev. J. S, Somerville, of Tapanui, has been appointed to serve as a chaplain with the Armed Forces. He was granted leave of absence for a year at a meeting of the Presbytery of Mataura.

Mr. G. H. B. Lill, a well-known resident of Wiiloughby, South Canterbury, was elected vice-president of the Methodist. Church of New Zealand at the openiftg session of the annual con' ference in Wellington last night. Mr. Lill is well known in public life in South Canterbury and has been associated with the Methodist Church all his life.

The Rev. W. Grigg, a superumerary minister of the Methodist Church residing in Christchurch* and Mr. E. Dixon, the lay representative of the Hawera circuit, were both complimented by the Methodist Conference, which opened in Wellington last night, on attaining the golden anniversary of their weddings. ;