PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18579, 11 December 1923, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

' - ■•' '"■' — : —"* - ''Tmm Mr. Justice MacGregor has returned t<» ra&s' Wellington .'from . fjisbonie. ?Si Mr. T. M. Burke, of Sydney, arrived yesterday by the Makura. - • . 7 ~ '•' ——- f^^fill The Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C. of 111 Christchurch, is at the Grand Hotel ■"'^ — — . ' V:, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mendelssohn, of Chicago, are through passengers oy the" 'Makura. Professor and Mrs. F. P. Worley reMr. P. A. Brett, of London, arrived by ' Vj the Makurs. yesterday. * Mr. F. Coffee, of Sydney, and Mr. T. ''','? Silverwood, of Los Angeles, are through * E'•' passengers by the Makura. - ■•'■.;';: Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Chappell, and • W\ Messrs. W. Yatman and L. Sweeney, of .'■■Wi Sydney, are at the Central Hotel. Sir Frederick Chapman is at present >*M in Dunedin, where he is presiding at a sitting of the War Pensions Appeal Board. 'f : \

Mr. T. Bailey, formerly of Auckland, has been appointed bandmaster of the First Battalion, Otago Regiment Band.

Captain D. D. C. Knox, of London, Dr. and Mrs. Eastlake, of Los Angeles, and Mr. C. Coleman, of New York, are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. arl Mrs. W. J. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. E. Cato, and Messrs. C. A. Hoadley and J. G. Pryor, of Melbourne, are at the Grand Hotel.

Lieut.-Colonel W. Harrison, of London, accompanied by Mrs. a:.d the Misses Harrison, arrived by the Makura yesterday, and is at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Lan Currie, of North-east Victoria, arrived by the Makura yesterday. Mr. Currie intends spending some weeks fly-fishing in New Zealand.

Mr. C. F. Gardner, chahman of the New Lynn Town Board, returned by the Makura yesterday, after a nine months': tour in Britain and America.

Mr. Alex Jcbson, editor of the Austra.; lian Investment Digest, arrived yesterday from Sydney. He is at the Grand Hotel, accompanied by Mrs. Jobson and their son. f

Major R. Miles, D.5.0., M.C., New.* Zealand Artillery, is proceeding to England for the purpose of attending a twoyears' course at the British Staff Col-1 lege. /J

Mr. Arthur S. Butler, a member of .the City of London Corporation, and for many years a member of the council of me London Chamber of Commerce, has arrived in Christchurch. ./•

Sir John Randies and . Lady Randies, \ who have been visiting the Dominion, will leave by the Tofua this afternoon on a trip to the Islands. They will complete their New Zealand tour on their return.

Mr. S. S. Aburn, bridge overseer of the;: Publio Works Department, Donedin, has been transferred to Marlborough district; to rebuild a large bridge over the dw«jce> River. The bridge was washed away by the flood last May. - ;. :/;;,'

Mr. and Mi's. A. McNah, of Brisbane, Mr. and Mi*. Marcus Collins, of Geeloitg, -i 1 and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Edwards/Mr. , '• and Mrs. F. Waddington and Mr., Mrs- „ t * and Miss Cram, of Sydney, arrived at "' Auckland yesterday and are at the Grand " . Hotel. . $&$M •'. "" : '■': •' ' -'" ' turned by the Makura yesterday fan Sydrey, where they spent two months'' ' '•> holi.iay. ' Professor Worley left last night '-, for Nelson to attend a meeting of ■ they, 4 : Scientific Board of Advice of the Cawthron -' i Institute. . ' ,' ' % , ■-■■•• ~•• ' '••' >• — ■ "■ ■'■■-■ ;^a Major-General G. S. Richardson, Admin-" T'; istrator of Western Samoa, leaves' A#k- -,' land to-day by trie Tofua on his return Apia. . During, a brief, but. exceptionally. busy, visit to Auckland G«meral Eichsrdson conferred with representatives 'oMj'fl New Zealand Government respecting '3 '' several important ,administrative questions ,; t . of policy. The offical report of the ence, which was exceptionally serviceable in preparing the way for the development \ of the mandated 'territory, will be sub- 1 ."' > ] mitted to the , local Administrative Council on the General's return to Samoa.