PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr E. F. Duthie went off foe Wellington. this morning on private busi- ' cess.' ,Mr R. W. Marshall, officer in charge of the Tourist Office in Dunedin, is doing a, round of the Manapouri and Milford districts, and will return by the h.s’." Kotare after visiting some of the sounds. Mr J. L. Passmore, intending to be at the Dominion Motor Conference in .Wellington, left Dunedin by train this morning. Mr ,H. Spendlcy, a Sydney business man. has been paying Dunedin a visit, add loft by the 11.34 train to-day. Mr J. P. Mitchell, now of Auckland, went .north tlm morning after a short spell with relatives in this city. Mr W. H. M'Cormack has completed ■ his' New Zealand tour in the interest ■ of Seppelt’s firm, and was farewelled ■tin the Dunedin station this morning. After a short stay here as station director at 4YA. Mr L. Barnes left on Tuesday night by the express for Auckland. where ho takes -up his duties as station director at IYA. In the meantime the announcer hero (Mr Curry) ■ ds filling the position of station director; -■ Mr Carl Ball left to-day on a two months’ holiday trip to Australia. Mrs W. Marshall Macdonald, who did ’■ not stand for the Otago Hospital Board at the last election, will be a candidate ■ hmMay. This lady previously held a ' scat on the board for about six years. '■ It:is announced (states a Gisborne message) that Mr Levvy, S.M., who :has been at Gisborne for the past seven ■ years,- has been transferred to the 'South Island. j.i . ; A private , cablegram received by the j •Eastern Extension Cable Company to?day, states that Sir John Denison Pen-1 vler, -chairman of the Eastern and other associated cable companies, died at London yesterday afternoon as the rosuit of an attack of bronchial influenza. —Press Association. A gathering, of all. departmental heads of A. and T. Burt’s works took ‘.place, yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr A. W. Mindo (superintendent of works), who has been transferred to Christchurch as the firm’s engineering representative. Mr MindoV successor (Mr J. M. Patrick) referred to Mr Hindoos departure to* a wider sphere of activity and usefulness, assuring him that he took with him the -■giJOd wishes df all present for his ‘ future success.' A case of Loewe pipes . was presented. 'A \yellington Press Association mes- ’ sage announces the death of, Mr George B. Christie, local manager of the New. Zealand Express Company for the past fifteen years* He leaves a wife and;

Decent arrivals at the Grand Hotel include Major and Mrs Archibald Evans (Chalcomhe, England), Mr and Mrs J. R. Findlay (Loxrdon), Mr Roy Williams (Colombo, Ceylon), Mr J. S. Shaw (Glasgow), Mr and Mrs Van De Velde (Sydney), Mr T. H. Mackay (Auckland), Mrs.and Miss Gray (New Plymouth), Messrs A. E. Donne, W. H. P. Barber, W. J. Marriot, C. E. Newhouse, J. L. Morrison (Wellington), Messrs AV. M'Kellar, AV. L._ Carey (Christchurch), Mr J. R. Licthead (Kaiapoi), Mr D. L. Patterson (Oamarn), Messrs Richard G. Brophy, Frank M'Pherson, and Frank Wolfgang (Byrd expedition). Among those staying at the City Hotel are Mr A. Barrett (Auckland), Mr and Mrs AV D. Napier (AVaimato), Mr W. L. Norton (Oamaru), Mr A. D. Wilson, Mr AV. Aitcheson (Invercargill). The guest list at the Excelsior Hotel includes Mr R. C. Hughes (Wyandotte, U.S.A.), Mr and Mrs L. Turner (Sydney), Mr AV, AVoodroffe (Auckland),‘Mr L. AV. Oldham, Mr H. C. Patchett (Wellington), Mr S. AVood (Napier), Mr J. Garten, Mr Malcolm, Mr H. J. Perkins (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs D. Jardine, Master D. Jardine (Queenstown), Mr G. Cassels (Riverton), Mr A. Heegan (Patearoa), Mr J. Horrell (Te Tus).