PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18530, 15 October 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. arid Mrs." B. Kerrey left last ni»u < for ■ Marlon. ; * * 77: > - s - > „ H '• Mr;' and : Mrs. ;-.: S. H. . ; Gilmer left i„ t night ■ for Wellington. , • -,: : ■' -Jsig|gP Mr. T. M. Wilford, ; Deader •of tea Opposition, has arrived at Hongkong. -i I \J Mr. Ronald K. Lyon, secretary to tiullill Wellington" Savage: Club, *is: at Cargen. W- :.- Mr. Frank-Goldberg, of Wellington, },« '■ been. elected a,Fellow of the Royal ; Econo- ' mic Society. v ~ .. "■ ' ' - - j Mr. E. P. Earl has been appointed ; Commissioner of the . Native Land Court ■ ' at Auckland, ,; r : ; . . ',-~ ■ Mr. L, S.Cumrnings arrived in Aucfc. land yesterday from the North, and is it : 'the'rand Hotel. . The Rev. Father A, Doherty has been appointed to the parish of Mauricevill 9 Eketahuna, and Hamua. , * ' Major- S. W. B. Brooker, M.C., has '- been awarded : the Colonial Auxiliary Forces officers' decoration. \ , Col. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. S.' A. : Lo n . guet Mr. H. Goodman and Mr. G. Weber' '•' left last' night by the Main Trunk for th& South. ; . •'.-.. ' - 6 ' . Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Digby, of Mel- - bourne, and Messrs. R. C. Hughes and '-"■> F. S. Badg«r, of Wellington, are at the - Grand Hotel. '■'■'■■ • • ■" .. ;.V .: Major W I, K. Jennings and Mr. Alexander Dunn, of Wellington, and Mr." ' ' L. M.-Lane,- of Totara North, are at the Central. Hotel. . Captain John Bone, marine euperintendent for the New Zealand Shipping Com- ' pany, left for the South by the Main Trunk express last evening. ' - 'V ■* Mr. E. E, Giilon, chief mechanical en- -' gineer in the Railway Department, acoom- " §anied by Mrs. Giilon, returned to the outh last evening after a visit to Audi- 1 " ' land. ... Dr. J. Henderson, of the New Zealand ■ Geological Survey, left by the Tofua forv Tv Fiji on Saturday to investigate tha ■■ / economic geology of the Islands. He ex--•'-, pects to be absent for some months. Mr. F. E. Smith, agricultural - expert ! to the British • Overseas. Settlement Delef ration, who . has already, toured the Auckand, North Auckland, and East Coast - * districts of the North Island, has gone - -> to Nelson, whore he will commence his ,> tour of the South Island. r.- ;■.-'■ ': ' •- ■ ■ The Hev. John Holmes, , who has teen WM in charge of the Upper Hutt (Wellington) -•'•«; home mission station, , has applied to be -\ admitted into the ' Presbyterian Chnrcft, -.i- % The Wellington Presbytery hasreconh mended that his application should goto ; :|®| the Genera! Assembly. During his resi- V. dence in England. Mr. Holmes was com ' V nected with the Congregational Church. ~ -i: Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., of Wellington, who has been on relieving duty in Auck- i land owing to the death of Mr. J. E, ■ Wilson, S.M., will■ be permanently stationed in this city. ■". . His. place on the ' Wellington Bench , will , probably be taken by Mr. O. R Orr Walker, who recently ; returned from Samoa, where he occupied <='■*$' the position yof Chief 'Judge for several ;, years. ,-' Mr. Walker was Stipendiary Magistrate at New Plymouth at the tima ' of his appointment to the Samoan, Admin- > istration. • ' . - • •