PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

•:> Mr. Allen Bell, • MP.,; returned to Km, taia yesterday.-: • + Sir Joseph Ward returned to Wellington by last evening's express. ' \ Mr. R. A. Laidlaw left for ih© 86cth • ; ... by the Main Trunk express last evening. ; Mr. T. O. Cullen, of Leeda, England, ; - and Mr. H. J. Lambert, of Melbourne, are at the Grand Hotel. Dr. C. ;J. • Reakes, director-general of . "agriculture, loft for Whangarei yesterday, He was accompanied by Mrs. Reakes. • / j ' Mr. R. Beckerleg was admitted as' g. barrister of * the . Supreme Court by Mr. . C Justice Stringer yesterday, upon' the mo- ■' tion of Mr. A. Hanna. : Colonel H. R. Potter, officer commanding the Northern command, left for Wei-' lington last evening to attend a conference of commandants!. . ■ ' !■ > ; Mr. A. Spencer, president of the Auck- v land Employers' Association, and Mr. W. . J. : Jaggs, "vice-pressdent, left for the : South by yesterday's express. - ' X . Mr. J. W. Tibbs s.nd Mr. R. H. Nolan, . \ members of the Welfare for the Blind.' Commission, left for Wellington by the Main Trunk express last evening. Tlie Hon. W, H. Brabant-, M.L.C., . - Comptroller «r Customs, at Suva, • Fiji, . left by tho -yclua on Saturday, after spending four months in Auckland. . Mr. J. Smallfield, of tho Agriciiltural ■' : Department, Auckland, arrived in Hamil- . :;;; • ton:. yesterday . ."-.He'.-. will . give a series of. lectures in country districts under the aus- • pices of the Waikato branch of the : Farmers' Union. He will be accompanied by Mr. W. Dempster, Government dairy expert, and Mr. A. Schmitfc, secretory of the union. \ . Sir Thomas Clement, head 'of the fiwix - v . of Messrs. Andrew' Clement and Sons, - Ltd., - dairy produce .salesmen, London, . arrived in Hamilton from Rotorua yester-. ; day. In the afternoon .;•> ho' motored to •- * i Cambridge, and to-day he will visit the principal factories of the New Zealand Dairy Company. . Accompanying! Sir , Thomas is Mr. R. W. D. l?obcrtson, the firm's: New Zealand representative. Ty.