PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18088, 12 May 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. | Mr. P. Hally will leave for Thames to, j day on Board of Trade business. Mr. T. Camming, of 'Colombo, Ceylon, ■» and Mr. (J. G. Coleman, of Sydnev at the Grand Hotel. 5 ~—» Mr. K. de G. MacVitty, American Con. ' snl at Auckland, left for Wellington bv the Main Trunk express last evening. " 1 Lord Clifford, of Chadleigh, president i of the Evolution Society," will leave 1 ; England for Australia and New Zealand i in June to give a series of lectures. i Sir William Herries, M.P. for Tanranga, and Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P. foj , Wellington East, are expected to arrive in Auckland to-day from Wellington. » Mr. Harry D. Tiemann, dry kiln ex--3 pert, United States Forest Service and t Forest Products Laboratory, is on a visit i to New Zealand, and is at present in Wellington. 3 Mr. P. H. Mason, of Mount Eden, has received advice,! from the secretary of ' the Institution of Electrical Engineers > 1 that he passed in all subjects in tha 3 A.M.I.E.E. examination 'held in January a last u Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Henderson, of t j Capetown, South Africa, who are making , j a tour of the world, and have been spend' i ing a few weeks in New Zealand, will 3 | leave for Australia by the Ulimaroa to- " | day. They purpose visiting Japan, and i | Java before going to Britain and tho 7 i Continent. a I - | The Rev. C. E. Fox, who has passed j his examination for the degree of doctor 3 j of literature in the University of New Zealand, is well known in Auckland. Ha j is a native of Gisborne, and is son of the " i late Canon Fox. He received hia theologi- ! cal training at St. John's College, where t i he gained the L.Tii. diploma - in 1899. : In the same year he graduated M.A. with j honours at the Auckland University Col- ; lege. In 1902 he joined the staff of the | Melanesian Mission, and since then he e has laboured continuously in that wide a j field, his headquarters being at Heuru, on i,r M<l r , j the island of San Christobal, in the Soloe ■ mons group. He has thrown himself 0 ! heart and soul into the work, and he has -j | placed himself in a more intimate and 0 [ sympathetic relationship with the natives . ■ than has been attained by any other European. He is recognised as one of 1 | the crreat.est authorities on matters affect- ■ ing the Solomons, and in qualifying for his ! ; latest degree he has written an intereatt, ! ing thesis on the ethnology of the in--1 habitants of that group. He also has J | compiled an exhaustive native dictionary, . : which will be published shortly. Dr. Fox j is 44 years of age.