PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL

Mr y. S. Jacobs left this morning for Wellington, where he will attend a dominion conference of retail tobacconists and tobacco manufacturers. ’ The Rev. H. E. Bellhouse (chairman of the Otago and Southland Methodist District) left this morning for Wellington to spend a few days before the opening of the annual Methodist Conference on February 15. Mr Maurice Ralph has been appointed New Zealand representative for Hugo Larsen, the well-knokn entrepreneur. Artists to arrive shortly in New Zealand will be Horace Stevens, the famous London baritone, and the great Russian pianist, Left Pouishnoft, a noted Chopin performer, to be followed later in the year by Ramon Novarro, so well known on the screen. A Gisborne Press Association telegram states that Mr John Pettit, a farmer, of Pukeamaru, Hicks Bay, who was well known in sporting circles in the district, dropped dead this morning while working on a fence line. Latest bookings at the Grand Hotel are Mr R. J. Auwyl (Melbourne), Dr and Mrs D. G. Brown (New Plymouth), Mr and Mrs F. Myers (Wellington), Misses A. Bowker and C. Smith (Christchurch). Mr and Mrs E. S. Johnstone (Otara), Mr and Mrs J. W. Fair (Timaru), Mrs T. Bowker (Dunback), and Mr and Mrs F. H. Williams (Tapanui). City Hotel guestsMr H. W. Hobbs (Sydney), Mr A. Van Rooyen (Wellington), Mr J. Simpson (Timaru), Mr and Mrs J. Faulks, Mr Stewart Faulks (Wanaka), Mrs J. Grant, Mr John Grant, jun. (Cromwell), Mr A. H. M’Kinnon, Mr and Mrs A. C. Sutton and daughter (Kurow), Mr and Mrs D. G. Ross (Hillgrove), Mr A. Robertson (Tapanui), Mr and Mrs J. Johnston, Miss F. Whit© (Gore), Mr W. J. M’Gregor (Mount Linton), and Miss I. Lange (Invercargill).