PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17708, 17 February 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

_! L _ Mr. and Mrs, H. Pockier, of Welljjj* ton, are at the Grand Hotel. l * Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Sleeman, LO,S arrived from Wellington yesterday, gl is at the Grand Hotel. * • Mr. G. Edgecombe wm re-elected » governor of the Hamilton High School 4$ yesterday's meeting of the Edacttferi Board. Captain Westmacott, A.D.r. to Sir Cecil Rodwell, Governor of Fiji, wjg a passenger from the Islands by the Navni last evening. Mr. T. Duncan, the New Zeaiartd Goternment's resident agent at Mangaia, cjjj of the Cook group, arrived at Auckland by the Talune yesterday. Mr. H. Gerard, secretary to Colonel Ta&, Administrator of Samoa, arrived »i Afiekland last evening on leave. He j. accompanied by Mrs. Gerard. Colonel Hiram Bingham, professor of Latin-American history at Yale University., arrived from Samoa by the Na«n a last evening. He is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. G. H. Myers, of Washington, formerly of the American forestry service was a passenger from Samoa by t}j 9 Navua last evening. He is at the Grind Hotel. Mr. Thomas Zillwood, who resides at Carterton, is one of New Zealand's earliest settlers. He arrived in Wellington in April, 1840. Mr. Colin Goodin, who is also a resident of Wairarapa, arrived in New Zealand in August, 1840. Mr. G. W.- Smith, of the Wairoa branch of the Bank of New Zealand, wil] 6uicced Mr. A. J. Dixon as manager of th© branch, at Morton. Mr. Smith was some years ago in the bank at Bulls. Mr. Dixon has been transferred to Napier. Captain H. C. Cotton, who recently resigned from the post of Secretarv of Native Affairs in the Samoan Administration, arrived at Auckland yesterday. Cap. tain Cotton, who has been in Samoa practically continuously since the advance guard of the Expedit«6nary Force landed there in 1914, has held various offices under the military and civil administrations-. He has now finally- severed his connection with the islands, and will take a holiday before making any further plans.