PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 9

PERSONAL

The Prime Minister is accompanied to Britain by Mrs Forbes, Mr C. A. Jeffery (his private secretary) and Mrs Jeffery, and Mr H. I. Forde, economic secretary. The party will arrive at London on May 5. A Wellington Association message states that M. Georges Simeon, the French novelist and journalist, is on the Makura, en route to Sydney and Fiji. He has been visiting Tahiti and the Galapagos Islands. Mr James M'Dermott has been appointed chief telegraph engineer to the Post and Telegraph Departing in succession to Mr C. S. Plank. He has been deputy chief engineer since 1932. The Rev. Dr Klimeck hak been appointed to take charge of the Catholic parish of South Dunedin during tha absence on holiday of Monsignor Delaney.

A motion congratulating the Hon. J„A. Hauan on. his election as Chancellor of the University of New Zealand was carried unanimously at a meeting of the Victoria College Council. Mr J. G. Timlin, of the Standard Insurance Company, who has been transferred to Melbourne, left by the early express this morning. Word has been received by Bishop Whyte of the sudden death last night of the Rev. Father Kaveney, of Carterton. He was formerly administrator of the cathedral parish in Dunedin, but had been in the Wellington diocese fop a few years. At the conclusion of the final performance of ‘ The Pelican ’ by the Dunedin Repertory Society in the Town Hall Concert Chamber on Saturday night occasion was taken by members of tha cast to bid farewell to Air Lester Moller, the chairman (Mr W. R. Brugh)' remarking that Mr Moller had made his final appearance on the stage before leaving for' Oxford University as » Rhodes Scholar. Mr Brugh extended to Mr Moller the society’s best wishes fop his success in the future.

The Eight Hon. G. W. Forbes is now, making his third visit to London as Pirme Minister, having represented the dominion at the Imperial Conference in. 1930, and again at the World Economio Conference in 1933. Until 1930 Mr Forbes, an ardent New Zealander, had never been abroad.

Guests staying at the Grand Hotel over the week-end were: —Mr E. W,Sharp (Auckland), Miss A. C. Affleck, Messrs H. P. Hopkins and W. Morton (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Skinner, Miss Skinner, Mr and Mrs C. .T. Morrison, Messrs B. V. Barton, G. H. Hut-* ton, and A. Miles and Colonel Watson (Christchurch). City Hotel.—Mr E. Sutherland (Hawke’s Bay), Mr W. Burton (Wellington), Mr and Mrs F. Crawford (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Wilkes and Mr C. Hassall (Timaru).