PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22624, 29 April 1948, Page 6

PERSONAL

MR. F. S, PHILLIPS, Tokomaru Bay, has been granted by the New Zealand Society of Accountants a change of status to associate public accountant. SIR JAMES BISSET, making his third trip in New Zealand waters, this time, however, as a passenger on the Port Quebec, arrived at Dunedin yesterday. He is a former commodore of the Cunard-Whitc Star Line and former commander of the giant liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, and has had nearly half a century of seafaring. When Sir James Bisset retired from the sea recently the company offered him and Lady Bisset a trip round the world. Australia appealed to them .so much that Sir James accepted a job with the Australian Motorist Petrol Company and is now travelling by the Port Quebec, via Wellington, Napier and Auckland to New York, where he will transfer to a Cunard-White Star liner for England and after a short stay there will return to Sydney. LADY DUFF, who accompanied her husband, Sir Patrick Duff, United Kingdom High Commissioner in New Zealand, on his visit to Gisborne over the week-end, on Monday visited the Gisborne Intermediate School in her capacity of president of the New Zealand Junior Red Cross and gave a charming and keenly interesting address to children of the school on the objects of the organisation. Lady Duff was mot on her arrival at the school by the headmaster, Mr. R. McGlashen, and Miss D. Emmerson, district organiser for the Junior Red Cross. She later inspected the school and expressed keen interest in the appointments. During her visit to Gisborne Lady Duff had a car and driver placed at her disposal by. the Red Cross transport detachment.