PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17450, 21 April 1920, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

*!_ Dl i T D - M " Knox ' of Glasgow, arrived £, >" the Niagara from Vancouver yesterda*'■'"' He is proceeding to Australia. '"

Mr. R D -. S. Wvlie, C.M.G CBE F.K.CS. inspector of hospitals, arrival from Wellington yesterday morning. W

Mr. W. G. McDonald, chairman of th» Board of Trade, and Mr. J. W. CollhW secretary, arrived in Auckland yesterda?

Dr. T. H. A. Valine j asXKciinr General of Hospitals, arrived in AncS-rid" yesterday morning, and left for the south again in the evening.

Surgeon-General D. J. McGavin, direc < tor-general of medical services, arrived in Auckland from Wellington yesterday morning. He will leave for Rotorua to-day.

Mr. Justice Stringer, President of the Arbitration Court, and Messrs. W. Scott and J. A. McCulkragh, assessors, will go to-day to Rotoma, where a sitting of th* Court will be held. 6 e

Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, a member of the Auckland City Council, leaves for Sydney by the Niagara to-morrow. He will visit Melbourne, and will probably he away from Auckland for about five weeks

Mr. G. W. Allsop, architect to the Auckland Hospital Board, returned by the Niagara yesterday from a seven months' trip to America and Europe. One of his chief objectives was to study hospital architecture. "

Mr. G. R. Wilkin, who for some vears has been manager of the Opotiki branch of Dalgety and Company, Ltd., is to retire shortly on pension. He will be succeeded by Mr. T. F. Martin, of the company' Hawke's Bay staff.

Dr. J. Hight, Professor of Economics at Canterbury College, Christen has been appointed president of the economic section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, which will meet in Hobart on January 15.

Mr. H. R. Wood, manager of the Whangarei branch of Dalgety and Company, Ltd., will act as manager of the Auckland branch during the absence in England of Mr. A. v». Perkins, manager of the company's Auckland. i>^r-«=

Mr. and Mrs. L Mirfield, of Gisberne, are at Stonehurst, and next week will leave by the Navua on a trip to the Islands. Mr. Mirfield is a member of the Gisboraa Borough Council, and in that capacity w2i take j>art in the reception to the Prince of Wales.

Sir Joseph Ward, who has returned from Sydney in the best of health, will be the guest of the Government at functions connected with the visit of the Prince of Wales. Sir Joseph visits England after the conclusion of the Royal tour.

Captain Ziman, the first Rhodes scholar from Auckland, will leave for Sydney by the Niagara to-morrow, en route to "London, prior to returning to India. Captain Zunan has been collecting data concerning local government, town-planning, etc., for the Government of the Bombay Presidency.

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Craig, who left Auckland a few months ago on a trip to America, returned by the Niagara yesterday. They travelled through Canada and the United States. Unfortunately Mr. Craig, whose health had not been good before leaving Auckland, had a serious illaess in New York, and he is still in an indifferent state of health.

Tie Rev. S- Lawry, connexioTial secretary of the New Zealand Methodist Conference, will -cave Christchurch at the end of this month to represent the New Zealand Conference at the meeting of the New Zealand and Australian Methodist Conference m Sydney. The conference will deal with a proposal that the New Zealand Methodist mission field should be extended to include the Solomon Islands.