PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21899, 10 December 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL

✓ —Ministerial.— The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. GW. Forbes left Christchurch last night, and went through by the south train this morning to attend the- Royal Show at Invercargill. He returns to Dunedin on Wednesday. Sir Fabian Ware, permanent vicechairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, who will be in Dunedin next week, is to be given a civic reception on Monday, December 17, at 11.80 a.m. Sir Fabian is to be the guest of Sir James Allen. Sir William Hunt, accompanied by. Lady Hunt, arrived last evening by motor car. They left this morning for. Invercargill, where they will visit the Royal Show. Mr Malcolm MacDonald, M.P., son of the British Prime Minister, who is accompanied by his sister, Miss Sheila MacDonald, will arrive in Dunedin on Thursday from the Southern Lakes district. He will be the guest of Mr P.R. Sargood while in Dunedin. During his visit to the Lakes District he will be a guest at Mr Sargood’s WanaktV Station

Mr G. M. Smith has arrived from New Plymouth to take up the position of Fields Superintendent at the Department of Agriculture, in place of Mr R, B. Tennent, who.is now Director of the Fields Division at Wellington. . Mr S. W. M. Stilling, who for several years was the New Zealand representative of the Australian National Travel Association, has returned to Jenolan' Caves as manager, which position he held prior to his appointment to New; Zealand.

A Christchurch Association message records the death of Mr Alexander, George Cannons, aged fifty-six, district' officer there in the Department of Industries and Commerce. He was a' member of the council of the Chamber, of Commerce. He was born in Wan* ganui, and was well known in business' circles.

When Mr F. H. Hollingworth was laid aside with illness the Otago Hospital, Board appointed Mr E. Page (oj the Reserves Committee staff) to carry) on the board’s gardening work, and now that Mr Hollingworth has, passed away) Mr Page is still doing duty. He has charge of all the board’s grounds—at the Dunedin Hospital, the Talboys’l Home, the Prince Edward Convalescent Home, the maternity hospital, the Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the AVa- , kari Hospital, and has the oversight of the grounds of the Palmerston. Sanatorium and other smaller institutions—a full range of duty. Mr Hollingworth’ was the senior of the board’s employeesThat distinction is now held by Mr John Jacobs, the secretary. • Mr L. J. AVild, of Feilding, president of the Royal Agricultural Society ofi New Zealand, passed through Dunedin to-day on his way to the Royal Show in “ Invercargill. Mr J. V. Wilson, chief. of the cen-

tral section of the League of Nations Secretariat, with Mrs AVilson, left this morning to do the Milford Track walk. Count Michard and Dr Jacques tL Demarquette, two well-known Frenchmen interested in social culture and advancement, arrived by the Makura front San Francisco in the course of a world tour. They intend to remain- about three months in New Zealand.—Wellington Press The following guests were staying ati the Grand Hotel over the week-end:—• •Mr Albert Hirsch (New Jersey), Mr. and Mrs J. G. Martin and Miss Martin (Edinburgh), Mr S. Quilliam (Manchester) , Messrs T. B. Nossiter and la it Gibson (Sydney), Messrs T. Macky, R--5. Thompson, and A. Strange (Auckland), Messrs E. S. Dobson and K, Glendinning\(Palmerston North), Mr, A. R. Gudopp (New Plymouth), Messrs E. L. Mead, H. Brook, and A. AA T .: Press (AA r ellington), Mr AA r . J. Wild (Feilding), Mrs Bethel, Miss Rutherford, and Mr R. A. Ferguson (Amuri* North Canterbury), Rev. N. Salas, Messrs G. Holford and A. J. Storeri (Christchurch), and Mr E. R. Curtis (AAfinton). Captain E. Harris (Los Angeles), Mr J. B. Campbell (Wellington), and Me,; 6. Hart (Christchurch) are guests at the City Hotel.