PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19893, 15 June 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

The Prime Minister has advised tho f’a Ida ilia t'ounly (,‘onnnl Unit ho will visit Pahiahia. on Salnnlay Die 30th in.si. to open the. new county bridge... Ho loaves Wellington bv ear in Ihe morning, and tho same evening attends the AVairarapa soldiers’ reunion at Carterton. —Pro* Association (ek’crnun. His Kxcellcucy the Governor-General has reappointed Dr James Fitzgerald as a member of the. Council of the University of Otago. Messrs J. MMndue and T. Williamson will leave on Monday to represent the Otago section at the animal conference of the Public Service Association in Wellington. Mr W. ,B. Kea, for iho past (ive years accountant at the North Dunedin branch of the National Bank of Now Zealand, Ltd., has boon promoted to take charge of tho Reofton branch. On the eve of his departure) a. deputation representing the customers of tho branch, waited on Mr Rea to wish him success in his new appointment. As a token of their esteem; ho was the recipient of an engraved goldinounlotl fountain pen and an Kvnrsharp pencil. Mr V. W. G. Spiers, of the Dunedin branch, will succeed Mr Rea as accountant at North Dunedin. A cablegram from London stales that at a. Rotary Club luncheon an autographed photograph of Queen Alexandra, the last one slie autographed, was auctioned on behalf of the annual Roe Day collection, and was secured by Mr Arthur Barnett, of Dunedin, at. 40gs.

Mr .fames Miller, Hie newly appointed stipendiary magistrate, was born at Waiwera, South Otago, forty-seven years ago, and was educated at the. borough school at Kangiora, Waitaki Boys’ High School, ..ind Canterbury College. f-Ie started hi? career as a. cadet, in the Justice Department. twenty-eight, years ago, and has had a. long experience in the magistrates’ courts and supreme courts in various parts of New Zealand, haring occupied the position of clerk of the court jit Wanganui, Masterton, Hamilton, and Auckland, and registrar of the Supremo Court at Hamilton and Christchurch. He was also attached to the staff of the . Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch and Dunedin, He was admitted a sa solicitor of the Supremo Court at Dunedin about eighteen years ago. Among, those staying at the Grand Hotel are Mr and Mrs Man rice Muscovite!), Mr and Mrs Nat. Madison, Mr and Mrs G. Blunt (London), Mr A. Harnmersloy (Sydney), Mi .1. Loggo (Nelson), Mr A. Le H. .Hoylos, Mrs T. A. Nicholson (Invercargill).