PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18460, 25 July 1923, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

y Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Wigging, ol -w . lington, are at the Central- Hotel,". - :V C : Messrs.!,. Nelson, H. Garrow,' » n d tr W. Lever of Wellington, ' afß ' IrSlf Grand Hotel.," , , : ;.;^i|M : Mr. Oscar Asche, who arrived b* a v: -^ Marama yesterday from ■ Sydney, i T-3t the Grand Hotel. ' y ' .'ssss j . i ■: Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford - Davidson . London, arrived by the Marama ywta#lP and are at the Grand Hotel. %!! M ■ '■ -■-"'-'■ :[■:.■)':. ■:'■■— • J,'.'.. .;.: i v „ Commissioner E. Hoggard, of the.l|ll vation Army,y left for Wellington ; Main Trunk express last evening. '■tfSjjjjß Mr. H. D. Robertson, who has b„ : on a business trip to Australia aDd ; Ts II mania, returned by the Marama vest,"'' day, JhssS . • ■ „ '. ' ;.--v|^ Messrs. D. Youren-, C. H. Mitotan ■'< and C. B. Smith, of Wellington, and Si J. K. Boon, of Christbhurci, arSfc; •< Central Hotel. ' . ' a ™;;; .' . Mr. A. rt A. Thomson, of the teacton* staff of Scots ' College, ; WoHingtoiTS" ' been appointed headmaster of the kaSSllil provincial school, Fiji. *?? : ; T Mr. J. W. Hafctrick, of Ufo'».iH. Messrs. C. Evans and J. M. sS/t Sydney, who arrived by the Mar aina - terday, are at the Grand Hotel. 5 Ti'r'H .Mr. K-k Basdeni of London, aD( i Messrs.-H. Pratt and H. G. Engird of ' Birmingham, arrived by the Marama iW " Sydney yesterday and are at the Centra

* D j r " 0. .E. Maguire, medical mrp'eriii ' V tendent of ■ the Auckland Hospital Dr. A, N McKelvey, medica! %g* htendent of the . Contley Home, whofSli been on an official visit to the consumE ~ * sangona -atvotaki m- Cashmere ff Cjinstchurch, returned to Auckland w ' terday. 's*; ~M r - W -, G- Riddeli7 S.M., Jifr :-j, -"• Marchbanks, mi Mr. E.E. GilV ■ chief mechanical engineer to the it.J\ l ways Department, who have beerf/* '■' ■rf U &Cji ** n T e,jK ° . with the, sitting : of the Board of Inquiry into the. Mafr ■ Trunk disaster, left for the South $£ .Alain Trunk egress . last evening, , > _ Mr C. 0. Spedding, who for a num. « ber of years has been meager 0 X National Bank of New Zealand* &'■ I?--. Aroha,-ha been transferred to 'AM OnViw hunga branch He. takes the..£. o* ' Mr. Donald e MacCormick,. who «siW ' ing after- 35 year*,' service, to take ?« ; the position of chairman of'direct Si Rawhnson; and Ifwerson, Ltd. ° f ''

The Rev. Dr. Ernest N. MerrhW,™ ' ■'■■■ of Brisbane, who .has been rive^Si^ v ' I FMg Church (PresbytSnrDuLun I about forty-four years old, and of Sydney, where Lis wife was He took the MA. degree at thTsyfe ' University with first-class 'honours in W Philosophy, and aviso gained a tSfcSW travelling scholarship, . with journeyed to , Edinborough;: and starlit theology and then went !o Am'ricf II the. Harvard, University; he studiedl «W sophy : , unner, the famous '■ William* Spfl %L t $f i i*? d( *' Then ft turned to Australia and. wa* appointed 111 Qne of the. large churches in Sydn e > SI 1910 ha accepted, a .call to St* 'I G^^ m * B, *% Merringtou if with the Australian expeditionary force a* ' a chaplin and was eight months at flklli. poh. Ihen he ( went back to Brisbane,: hot >*' the war called him once- more,- And h« - ' served for another year in France*.." ;?