PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. E. H. Lough, of Dunedin, is at the Grand Hotel. Messrs. G. J. Black and W. Bruce, ol Gisborne, are at the Central Hotel. Mr. James Stewart has been appointed official visitor to the prison at Auckland. Dr. Trilby King was a passenger from Wellington, to Sydney By the Moeraki last week. Mr. J. J. Curtis, of the Bailway Department, New Plymouth, has been appointed secretary and manager to the Westport Harbour Board. Mr. F. G. Cr&dwick, who has held the offico of secretary of the North Canterbury Cricket Association for the past 16 years, has resigned. Mr. A. Bellingham, Assistant-dark to the Franklin County Council, has been appointed clerk to the Tauranga County Council. There were 68 applicants. Messrs. J. Woodward and W. H. Lee, of Wellington, Mr, A. T. Spain, of Gitborne, and Messrs. E. Brooking and P. Duncan, of Chruitchurch, are at the Star Hotel. Captain C. McDonald, marine superintendent for the Union Steam Ship Company at Wellington, and Mr. Jm*a Smith, superintending engineer at Wellington, are at the Grand Hotel. The Rev. J. J. North is about to take an extended tour. Leaving Christchurch on October 25, he will travel to India, and will stay about three months in that. country.' He will reach Europe about next April, and in July will visit Sweden. Probably Mr. North will return via the United States. He expects to be back in New Zealand about the beginning of October, 1923. The names of Messrs. D. H. Black, M.So., and J. G. Brown, 8.A., both ef Canterbury College, have been handed to the rector as possible candidates from tb,e_ college for this year's Rhodes Scholarship. The candidature of these 'two students will be considered at a meeting of the Students' Association to be held next week, after which the Professorial Board will make the final selection. Captain Joseph Maxwell, marine super-intendent-at Auckland for the Shaw, SaviJl, and Albion Company, yesterday completed 50 years' service with the company. He joined the ship City of Dunedin as an apprentice on September 10, 1872, when he was 18 years old. In 1884 he received the command of the ship Oamaru, and his subsequent commands were the Mamari, the company's first cargo-carrying steamer, th© Tokomarn, the Matatua, the second Mamari, and the Pakeha. He was appointed to his present position in 1911, Captain Maxwell was the recipient of many congratulatory telegrams,- and an address presented to him by the combined shipping companies, the harbour board and the customs officers.