PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

j Dr. and; the Mioses Brewis -1 day' for Hamilton. . . -_Vr^T^ § : Mr L,M. Isitt, M.P., has „cc.voS'' from his indisposition. - *".. .Messrs. 'E. T. Dodrell. and H.. if. BieV ley . arrived from Gisborne yssterdav S are at the Grand Hokl. ". " "*. ; , Mr. B. L. Hammond, -assistant uecielSl of the New Zealand Employers' tion, is at the Central Hotel. ■-. .:*.v«&| , Dr. J. Twhigg has been appointed hoiu. I surgeon at the Palmerston •■ North HottL.B tal, in succession to Dr. Helen /BaSiffl •well. *- - ai * I - Mr. T. S. Rows, of Colombo, Mr. (J I D. Little, of Wellington, and Mr., L* p' I Garland, of ' Christchurch, are "at • tW'l Grand Hotel. ' ffi ,1 ■Dr. G. L. Deschler and Mrs. Peaci|i||i Of New York, who arrived by the Maknjj£f on Friday, left J Auckland by the Jtam i Trunk express last evening. - '* I Mr. J. F. Mackley, locomotive efigin&f 3 . for the Railway Department at Auckland fij \ arrived from the South by s&fcj I Trunk express on Saturday. " - 1 Mr. R. Angus, New Zealand manager I for Messrs; Thos. Cook and Son, aiidl Mr 1 : J. Paterson, left by the Tofua on SatiiN £ day for a holiday . round trip of - the I islands. ° J ; Professor J. Macmillan Brown, sho|l Christchurch, will leave by the Ulirnftroa £ < for Sydney, to attend a Science Con-1 Kress as Chancellor of the New Zealand University. , • _ §; i- Mr.. Mrs. and Miss F. Kirk, of Portß i Awanui, . Mr. J. Bankes y of Cambridc»''l Mr. A. T. Hookey, of Gisborne, *nd MM 1 C. K. Pearson, of Wellington, ara at than Central Hotel. .Vtjl Mr. J. H. Richardson, who recently i t -i§ tired from the position of New Zeslitnil ■ Government Insurance Commissioner, HeftH for tho Pacific Islands by the Tofaa aiil Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. ' Ricaard-H son and Miss Richardson. ••-'ll Mr. F. J. Jones, assistant- chief e»;l ■ gineer of railways, and Mr. E. E. Giilon 1 chief mechanical, engineer, arrived «! ' Auckland from Taumarunni on- Saturday a ■ in connection with the inquiry into"- thai Main Trunk disaster at Ongarue, • and ; ara ffl ' at the Central Hotel. . -. ,!r ; J| Mr; W. G. Riddell,' S.M. (chairman);, I and Messrs. J. P. Maxwell and J, March- £ 1 banks,, members of the Board of Inquiry I appointed to : investigate the ■ cifcum-1| stances of the Main Trunk disaster;at On- I garuej Mr. J. Mason, secretary to >'the a board, and Mr. H. H, Sterling, who rep'wl sents the Railways Department: at the in« ■ quiry, are at the Central Hotel. ...'■' M Mr. H. D. :M'Kellar, Commissioner fef B Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Nelson, who is retiring from .the Public Ser- 8 vice on July ; 31, will then have! had nearly. 43 years' service.. Ho entered the Lands Department as. a cadet at Auckland r mJI 1S«1.. Mr. M'Kellar's father. Mr. D. M.l , M'Kellar; and his nncle, Mr. H. S>'Ma?Jtel.^l , lar, were respectively Collector of 'CusWms'l at Wellington, ; and Secretary far. the a> 1 ' partment at the time of their retiring; 'i ' . ■ =====. »-' 1