PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 October 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

—* The death of Mr John Tunbridge, formerly Chief Commissioner of Police in New' Zealand ,is- reported by cable from London. / The Surveyor-General, Mr W. T. Neill, will retire- on superannuation this year after 45 years’ service, reports 1 a Press Association message from Wellington. Mr S. A. Chisholm left by the mail train this morning on a short business trip to Wellington. Mr A. iC. Dawson, head of a London dairy produce firm, has arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Ulimaroa. 'He will spend some weeks in New Zealand and will visit Taranaki.

The appointment 'of Licutenant-Gen-oral TlMlidav. Ad.iu-tant-General of tlio Ji oral Marines, t.o he General, Royal Marines, is gazetted, states a British Official Wireless message. General Holliday won the Victoria. Cross for bravery' during an attack on the British Legation at. Peking some 28 years ago.

Mr W. W. Sutton, late senior supervisor of the telegraph branch, Palmerston North, left on Friday on annual leave (says the “Standard”) prior to commencing duties a t Hawera, to which office he has been transfererd os postmaster. On Thursday evening he was the recipient of a. presentation made on behalf of the. post office staff, and was wished every success in his new sphere. Mr Kami say MacDonald, leader of the British Labour Party, is -making a visit to Vienna, Prague and Berlin. He will lie accompanied by Sir Oswald Mosley, who is a. Labour member of Parliament, and his wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, who is a daughter of the late Marquis Curzou, formerly Foreign Secretary. It has been arranged that while in Berlin Mr Ham say MacDonald shall address members of the German Reichstag in the Reichstag building. —Official Wireless.