PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18222, 16 October 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. A. B. Carmichael, of HastiMi u ■■■■ at the Grand Hotel. * ' • • ; Mr. P. Verschaffelt, Public Service Co tt ; missioner, is in Christchurch. Messrs. Colin Norris and G. Swan L>. Tauranga, are at the Central Hotel."' ■ Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P. for Waisaaruw, arrived yesterday and is at the CenS Hotel. Inspector Dew, formerly of Invercarrill has taken-up his new duties in theNamer police district. v The Rev. J. Davie, of Pahnerston Otago, has accepted a call to the Maat«' ton Knox Presbyterian Church. Mr. ' Justice Chapman has just cel». brated the 50th anniversary of nis admisl sion to the Bar, which took jOtago. Mr. Victor C. Richards returned by the. Niagara from a seven months' tour of Great Britain, Canada and the United States. . Mr. Justice Frazer, president of the Arbitration Court, arrived yesterday morn, ing and is at the Central Hotel. He will preside at the opening sitting of the Court this morning. Messrs. W. Scott and J. A. Gilmour employers' and workers' representatives respectively on the Arbitration Court arrived yesterday morning from Welling' ton arid are at the Central Hotel. Mr. A, J. Harding, who has received advice of the serious illness of his mother in England, left for Wellington last evening to join the Tahiti for San Francisco to-morrow, en route to the Old Country. Mr. W. T. Coad, who has been chief postmaster at Timaru for nearly two years, has received advice of his transfer to the position of chief postmaster at Hamilton. Mr. Coad will leave for the . North Island in about a mor'.'j'e time. Mr. E. R. Guinness, who gave a few -reminiscences at the annual meeting of the College Old Boys' Association, has the distinction of being one of the very oldest living old boys of Christ's Col. lege. Be was entered as a pupil about 1856. Mr. J. Park, Mayor of Onehunga, and Mr. A. McColl, a member of the Borough Council, returned from Wellington by yesterday morning's express. Mr. Park's business was in connection with borough affairs, but Mr. McColl's visit was of a private nature. Colonel O. D. Macintosh, of Wellington, is in hospital suffering from a stroke Colonel Macintosh is a wellknown Maori War veteran, and at ow time was officer commanding the Welling, ton Highland Rifles, and then the Ist Wellington Rifle Battalion. Mr. A. F. Bent has been appointed registrar of the Supreme Court at Blenheim. Mr. Bent hitherto has been deputy-registrar, the position of registrsr being filled by the stipendiary magistrate for the district. The withdrawal of the resident magistrate fiom Blenheim has necessitated a rearrangement of the various duties attaching to the office. Mr. Bent was at one time clerk of the Court at Rotoraa.