PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18206, 27 September 1922, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Ernest Davis left for Suva yaitterday by the Maku;r». Dr. and Mm E. Ewart Brown, of Waihi, are at the Central Hotel. Mr. Alexander Moore haß beexi re-elected chairman of the .Tohnsonville Towii Board. Mr. Justice 1 Reed is presiding over tie session of the {Supreme Court in Masterten. Mr. G. A. Stanton was elected cha:tnQan of the Taumaiumii County Council yeateri day. Mr. A. Spencer, president of the Auek- / land Employers' Association, is in Christ--1 cburca. i Mr. G. M. Currie, who has bean visiting Auckland!, left on his return to Waaganui i last evening. '• Mr. W. G. Duthie, of Wellington, and i Mr. J. L. Gilmour, of Waihi, are at the ; Grand Hotel. , Professor James Park and Mrs. Park, - of Dunodin, left by the Makura yesterday . for Vancouver. s • Dr. D. B. E. Widshe left by the Makura I vestorday on a trip to the Islands, in company with Misp W*lshe. i Mr. Julius Bosenfeld. president of the i Gzecho-Slovakia Chamber of Commerce for i Australia, is in Wellington. 5 ' Mr. Preston Chambers left for Wellingr ton last evening to attend the September '. sitting of the Surveyors' Board,-on which he is the institute's Auckland representai tive. \ Mr. E. E. Gillon, chief mechanical > engineer of the New Zealand Railways, . who has been visiting Auckland, returned to Wellington by the Main Trunk express i last evening. ' Mr. C. Eugene Smith, who for the past ! ten years has represented the Government > Insurance Department in various parts of . the Dominion, has been appointed New . Business manager for Wellington to the j National Mutual Life Association. > Mr. William C. Higham. who has. retired 5 from the position of postmaster and tele- . phonist at Huia, owing to advancing years, r was largely influential in securing the j establishment of a postal service between Auckland and Huia 36 years ago. Throughb out that period he has fulfilled the duties t cif postmaster, giving the first five year,! > of his services gratuitously. About ten i years ago, when the post office became also , a telephone bureau, he added the duties of i telephonist to those of postmaster. Mr. x Higham is succeeded by Mr. A. Hill. 1 mmmmmmm