PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 7 November 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The Excellencies Lord and the Lady Bledisloe, will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow morning and will be the guests of Sir R. Heaton Rhodes. Rev. Dr James Gibb, who has been on a health-recruiting visit to Australia during the last three months, returned to Wellington by tlie Marama yesterday. His health has benefited by the change.

Captain W. Cheyne-Macpherson, of Cluny Macpherson, organiser of the Historical Cluny Castle Preservation Trust, who is visiting New Zealand in the course of a world tour, was in Palmerston North to-day. News has been received by Air W. Blair, of Lower Hutt, that his brother, Colonel G. A. Blair, formerly of the Liverpool Scottish Regiment, has died in Calcutta. Colonel Blair was known to many New Zealand men who served in France.,

Hon. P. Collier, Premier of Western Australia, arrived at Wellington yesterday from Sydney by the Marama on a’ holiday visit to New Zealand. He is accompanied by his private secretary (Air R. Doig). Both are paying their first visit to the Dominion.

Air G. Gordon-Taylor 0.8. E., AI.S., F.R.C.S., surgeon of Aliddlesex Hospital, and Professor G. A. Buckmaster, AI.D., F.R.C.S., of Bristol University, have been appointed to proceed to Australia and New Zealand to conduct the preliminary examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons.

A notable figure in commerce and finance, Sir Alan Garrett Anderson, of London, is expected to reach Auckland by the Niagara from Sydney on Alonday. Sir Alan is a director of the Bank of England and the Suez Canal Company, and is honorary president of the International Chamber of Commerce and president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce. In 192425 he was president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. Sir Alan was created K.B.E. in 1917. He was born in 1877, and married Aliss Aluriel Ivy Duncan in 1903. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. It is expected he will tour New Zealand before returning to England.