PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Travellers from Sydney for Wellington yesterday include the Australian contralto Miss Essie Ackland, Lady Stanhope," Lady Owen and Sir William Hunt. Lady Hosking sails to-day. The friends of Air F. J. Nathan, who is spending the winter months in Australia, will bo pleased to learn that his health continues to show an improvement. The date of his return to New Zealand is still indefinite. Colonel F. S. P. Nicholls, C.8.E., D. 5.0., officer commanding the Southern Military Command, retires from that position on superannuation today. He will be succeeded by Colonel P. H. Bell, D. 5.0., who formerly held the appointment of general staff officer, Central Military Command.

Mr G. J. Grace, of the Palmerston North branch of the Union Bank of Australia, has been appointed to the position of accountant at Napier, succeeding Mr It. E. Sowter, who has been appointed sub-inspector. Mr Grace will leave Palmerston North about the middle of next month. Elis successor has not yet been announced. Messrs J. Murray (rector of the Boys’ High School), G. G. Hancox rector of the Technical School), E. liary (headmaster, Central School), A. W. Thompson (headmaster Terrace End School), and L. J. Plank (headmaster, College Street School) are among the big contingent of Palmerston North headmasters and school teachers who are to attend the New Education Conference in Wellington next week.

Mr Lowell C. Pinkerton, the new Consul-General for the United States in New Zealand, will arrive in Wellington in September or October. Mr Pinkerton, who is married, has been stationed in the Department of State. Washington, for about four years. He has twice been assigned to London, and for four years held the post of foreign Service Inspector, which entails visiting the United States Consulates in different parts of the world.

The Minister of Finance and Marketing (Hon. Walter Nash) is scheduled to leave New York on Saturday by the Santa Barbara for Cristobal to connect with the Mataroa on July 22 for Now Zealand. The Mataroa is duo at Auckland on August 12. No word had been received by the Government up to last night "that Mr Nash was to make a return visit to Ottawa, the possibility of which was suggested in a message from Washington published yesterday.