PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18389, 3 May 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

•SiKHF^ 1 ****** - " ! f' J T - ¥■ S"f? rd '. ■ MJ? - le!t °™»» yesterday for Wellington. ~ . q Mr. J M. Stokes was a passenger from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. Sir John and Lady Peter, who have been visiting Eotorua. returned to Auckland yesterday, and are at the Grand - Hotel, ; a . Sir Thomas Clement, of London, visited the Hauraki Plains yesterday, and arrives in Auckland to-day. He leaves for Canada on May 8. The ReV. M. A. Rugby Pratt, formerly of the Trinity Methodist Church in ' Dunedin, has arrived in Palmerston North, and has taken up his new duties there. Captain Colin McDonald. New Zealand marine superintendent for tho Union' Steam Ship Company, arrived from Wellington yesterday. lie is at the Grand* Hotel. Messrs. O. H. Seckamp and H. H Sprigg, 'of Sydney, who arrived by' the Marama yesterday, and Messrs. F *D TV Posto and T. C. W. Hobbs, of London,' are at tho Grand Hotel. - * : ' Mr. T. U. Wells, who was recently elected to the seat on tho Auckland Education Board rendered vacant' by the death of Mr. G. W. Murray, took his place at the board meeting yesterday for the fir«t time. ."■•■•'■ ' - '"" . j ■ ■ —- .' ■■';,:;; Mr. W. H. Morton. Wellington city engineer, is still seriously ill. His brother Mr. H. E. Morton, city surveyor at Mel' bourne, and his son,, who has been at school in Melbourne, have arrived ,ir Wellington. - '" Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lord, of Rochdale England, Mr. R. Dewhirst, of Bradford England, _ and Mr. J. A. Kenyon.of Sidney, arrived by the Marama yesterday and are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and! Mrs. Lord lea for Rotorua to-day, , . Mr. A. M. Gould, Mayor of Takapuna, Mr. A. V. Fraer, of 'the* Dovonport Borough Council, Mr. E. C. Walton, Mayor of Birkenhead, have' been appointed • representatives of their respective councils on tho Lake Takapuna Board of Control. - The Hon. G. K. W. McDonald, of Syd-: ney, left by the main trunk express fast - evening for Wellington, where he will join the Ulimaroa for Australia Mr. . McDonald spent 10 days at Wairakei and ; attended tho Maori ceremony at Tokaanu ; last - Monday. . The rector of the Waitnki Boys' High ; School, Mr. F. Milner, who is ; a member of tho British Headmasters' Conference, :| has received advico from tho- secretary of the English Public Schools' Olub, Picca- ': dilly, London, that ho has been elected a vice-president of the club, and that exWaitakiana are now eligible for membership of the club, \ vWaitaki f in tho first school outside Great Britain to be ■■■ to honoured. ' , J '"■ '-^-;/-:-.