PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 31, 23 January 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL

Marshal Foch is now stated to ba out of danger.

Inspector D. Cummings of the Police Force, returned to Napier today from his annual leave.

Mrs. K. Golds arrived home by express last evening after a month’s holiday.

Captain R. J. Carter. Commissioner of Labour for Samoa, Las arrived in New Zealand on holiday.

Mrs J. Baxter left Hastings this morning for Wellington on a holiday visit.

Miss Jean Ballantyne left Hastings last Monday morning for Wellington, on a holiday trip.

The Hon. A. D. McLeod and Mrs McLeod leave in March on a visit to Europe.

Senior-Sergeant Powell, of tho Napier Police Force, left for Wanganui this morning on his annual leave.

Mrs Jobson, of Wairoa, who has been visiting Mrs Pepper, Alexandra street, Hastings, left this morning for Auckland by the express train.

Mr R. J. Eastwood, sub-editor of the Gisborne “Times,’"’ is at present on a short visit to Hastings as the guest of Mr E. S. Cliff.

While engaged at the Waipukurau saleyards yesterday morning, Mr Brian Boys fell from a railing and sustained the fracture of a wrist.

. Mr Andrew Thomson, director of the Apia Observatory, arrived by tho Tofua on Monday to spend a year in New Zealand in continuation of bis research on air currents in the Pacific, in relation to aviation.

Among the guests at the Masonic Hotel, Napier, are:—Mr. and Mrs. A, Hpong (London), Mr. and Mrs. G. McLean (Blenheim), Mr. and Mrs. N. Atkins (Marton), Messrs. J. H. Reeves, J. P. Bissett, E. Johnston, N. W. Johnston, W. Hurley, B. Wood, C. Giffney (Auckland), H. Cowie, G. Cowie (Timaru), J. McDonald, L. Speechley, W. J. Day (Palmerston North).

Tho Hon. G. W. Forbes, Minister of Lands, was entertained at a social gathering last night by the Auckland executive of the United Party. Mr. Davy, the party organiser, said that if it had not been for Mr. Forbes there would have been no United Party for he had made the decision whereby the National Party linked up with the United Party. Mr. Forbes congratulated Auckland on the splendid performance that it had put up in the recent elections. It was the finest record of any part of New Zealand considering the number of members who were commonly thought to be rooted beyond shifting (Press Association.)

The executive of the New Zealand Employers’ Association has decided unanimously to recommend Mr Louis John Schmitt as employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court. Mr Schmitt is at present attached to the Department of Industries and Commerce as advising accountant. A special meeting of the Unions of Employers will be called to consider the executive’s recommendation, and if it is adopted Mr Schmitt will be nominated. Mr Schmitt was born at Melbourne in 1885. He is of British parentage his grandfather having been naturalised as a British subject in Melbourne in 1884. Before jointhg the Department of Industries and Commerce Mr Schmitt served with several big corporations and departments of State in Australia.