PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15005, 29 May 1912, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

: 'si* : iw> Sfn. J. Australia by the ** from South Australia by the <us. AVimjoera., ______ Archdeacon Cole, of Auckland, who has . _J_ on fvlit to Australia, returned to Auckland by the Wimmera yesterday. The Hon. Te Rangihiroa (Minister presenting the Native Race arrived from 5bS by the Xgapuhi last night. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gandin, of Dunedin, who have been visiting Australia, arrived in Auckland by the Wimmera yesterday. Mr W. E. Woodward, manager of the Auckland branch of the Union Bank of Australia, returned yesterday after several months' holiday in Australia. Mr. Duncan Stoat, son of Sir Robert Stout, has passed the examination which entitles him to the degree of Fellow of } the Royal,-College of Surgeons, England. Mr. D. A. Aiken, assistant-general j manager of the Union Steam Ship Com- j pany at Dunedin, arrived in Auckland by the' Main Trunk express yesterday morning. He will be at the Star Hotel for a few days. •'-■....' Mr. T. R. Fisher.-forwarded. to the board of* directors of the Standard Insurance Company yesterday his resignation of the position of general manager, which he has held for many years (says a Press Associa-tion-message}. The Hon. H. G. Ell (Postmaster-Gene- j ral) left for Hamilton last evening on Departmental business. He goes on to Roto- , rua to inspect a site for a new post office,, and or. Fridav opens the new post office at Putararn. • He will return to Auckland on Saturday, and will leave again for Wei- j lington on Sunday night. Mr. Clement L. Wragge, the well-known meteorologist, returned to Auckland from ■a visit to Australia by the Wimmera yestoday. Mr. Wragge has been in 2ia for nine months and has spent most of lhe time on » lecturing tonr of the Commonwealth. Mr. W/agge will remain in Auckland for some time, after which ho will return to Australia to deliver a further series of lectures.' Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Islington and suite, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and Lieutenant•""oloncl IX Cossgrore, Y.D., Chief Uoihraissiciper of the Boy Scout organisation in New Zealand, left, "for Wellington by the express last, night, at 9.40. - About 300 people gathered at the station, and as the train moved out the : Mayor Mr. C. J. Parr) caSed far three cheera for Lord ond Lady Islington. The cheers were heartily given, and the boy scouts present enthusiastically cheered the Chief Scout.