PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17336, 6 December 1919, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. R. Acton Adams, of Dunedia, is at the Grand Hotel. ' Dr. A. Joseph and Mrs. Joseph, of Hamilton, are at the Grand Hotel. I Mr. P. D. Leslie, the New Zealand manager of the Colonial Mutual Life Office, ari rived from Wellington yesterday. Mr. T. N. Brodrick, Under-Secretary for Lands, who has been on a brief visit to Auckland, returned to Wellington last night. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ewen, who have been on a visit to Australia, returned to ! Aucklard by yesterday's Main Trunk express. Mr. J. Hislop, Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs, who has been visiting Auckland on Departmental business, left last night for Wellington. Mr. W. H. Morton, Wellington city engineer, is returning from a visit to Britain and America by the Niagara, now en route to Auckland. Mr. B. H. Nolan, of Hawera, brother of j Mr. H. O. Nolan of Auckland, is seriously ill in London, according to cable, advice just received. The.valuable services performed by Mr. Nolan in connection with the New Zealand Soldiers' Club in Russell Square were brought under the notice of the Prime Minister, Mr. W. F. Massey, by a deputation consisting of the Mayor of Hawera, Mr. E. Dixon, Lieut. J. G. Grant. V.C., and Mr. W. V. Patterson, president > of the Hawera branch of the Returned Holders' Association. Mr. Massey, in reply, expressed his appreciation of Mr. Nolan's excellent work in London, and said that a civic reception would be accorded Viim at . the port of his arrival in New Zealand.