PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17984, 9 January 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. J. H. Gunson, Mayor of Aucfela^fij l has returned from hu holiday vac&tioa, :j ||| ' Mr. P. S. Macassey, of who was in Auckland last week, Uft#! again for the South yesterday. Mr. Langer Owen, K.C., cA Sydney,® arrived in Wellington by the last week to spend a holiday in New land. Senior-Sergeant P. McMahon, who wis recently appointed to the charge of tha $ Ashburton police district, has been granted two months' sick leave. Mr. H. M. Skeet, commissioner o{ f§ Crown lands for South Auckland, and Mr. James Trounson, a member of th® Land Board for the district, left last evening for Wellington to attend a mating of the Electoral Boundaries Commission. The Rev. George H. McNeur, missionary to China of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, who has been on a visit to the Dominion on furlough, by left on his return to Canton. Mr. went out to China in 1901. He is on the staff of the Union Theological Col. lege at Canton, founded by missions of the Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist, § Congregational, and United Brethreu Churches. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, w!jo returned from England last week, wag,' during his absence, several _ times confined to his bed by trouble with the knee which was injured about four days before his departure from New Zealand. He is in good health, and states that he ij ready to take up his work attain, Bis first duty will be as Chancellor of Use University of New Zealand to preside at the sittings of the University Senate, which will be opened at Auckland ca January 13.