PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

";-:,Mr. Vernon Reed was '■& passenger fa £ the South By the express last *veatab^i§9 Messrs. A. S. Bankart and Eliot left for the South • by ~- the ■ express ]m evening. -;"'• ---•/ >,-• -'•-' '**J^^^ The Hon. E. Newman, M.L.C., I«ft Wellington by , the Rotorua on a visit to England. ' ' "'■ '' : -'- : -<?™MM ■ j S" ■ ————- ■' ' v'&RJ'WSMr. J. E. R. Peterson, of Gore and Dunedin, has been appointed to the'-ijaM of Nelson College. .■•••■. 'tmSm Mr. D. A. McLean, Mayor of WhanM* rci, accompanied by Mrs. McLean, ig ,j the Central Hotel. ' ?*Wm — . ' jiip Mr. Justice Reed has gone ■to WjPl'P nganui from Palmerston North to preside : over the Supreme Court sittings . there., Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kerr, of Timaru. -I'./ are at the Grand Hotel. They leave by the Makura to-morrow, for Vancouver. I>* Mr. M. S. Foley, of Sydney, a«4-i-Messrs. L. A. Reesby and G. Robertson, h of Wellington, are at the Grand Hotel. :\ The Hon. A. McDonnell, of Chriji,?, church, has left on a visit to England, He sailed from Wellington by the Roto. " rua on Saturday. f : Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Holds worth, of - : Waikohu, Poverty Bay, who arrived yes. •. terday, will leave for Honolulu by the"'-'-'' Makura to-morrow. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hooton and family, of Mount Eden, left by the Marama oa||||!v a 10-months' trip to China ; Japan, h'' America and England. Mr. J. M. Hickson, who recently com- • pleted his healing mission in New Zee- - land, has been spending a holiday at'the'r; ! v Hermitage, Mount Cook.' -V. Mr. H. A. Shepherd, of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, Whangarei, has ' been transferred to the North End branch - of the bank, Wellington, Messrs. J. A. Stewart, K. Taylor, J. M. - Clark, of Wellington, Mr. G. Preece, of'* Hawera, and Mr. D. T. O'Toole, of W*. nganui, are at the Star Hotel. —— Mr. H. Mercer, stationmaster at Hamilton, will retire on superannuation at the'-' '- end of February after 40 years' service with the Railway Department. Mr. C. E. B. Mearri, general manager Cof the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative So- \ ciety, Sydney, v the largest co-operative v£" dairy concern in Australia, is to arrive ;V; at Auckland this week. r - Mr. and Mrs. A. Selman, of Sydney, . and Messrs. H. A. Brown, T. E. Reynold.--. and T. L. Devoy, of Wellington, arrived yesterday by motor-car from Rotorua, and are at the Grand Hotel Me. and Mrs. A. R. Ponder, Major and Mrs. R. S. Matthews, of Christ*>'\S church, Mr. G. W. Buckle, of Wellington, * and Mr. A. Nesbit Smith, os New Ply« mouth, are at the Central Hotel. " ' • ' Captain Bell, A.D.C. to the Adminis- ;/v, trator of Samoa, is* now in the Sonth' \ Island, where he is spending a portion ottilrC his leave. He will return to Apia by the Tofua from Auckland next month. Dr. E. A. Anderson, Anglican Bishop Isu of Riverina, New South Wales, is on * . visit to Auckland. He preached at St. Matthew's Church yesterday morniag tsi : : '/{ at Holy Trinity Church, Devongott, in" y - the evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Speyer, of San - Francisco, and Mr. H. Whittnw• of. New York, who have been visiting Rot* rua, arrived in Auckland on Saturday, '■ and will leave for America by the M*- ;" kura to-morrow. i^:>s Captain L. M. Hadfield,.assistant marine|fe superintendent of the Canadian Govern-'|f|f ment Merchant Marine, at Montreal, ar- ,V rived on Saturday by the Canadian Constructor, accompanied by Mrs. Hadfield. They are proceeding to Sydney. , 7%^ _____ Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. N. 0. ' Gathorne-Hardy, D.5.0., formerly A.D.C. to the Governor-General of New Zealand, .' left Wellington by tho Rotorua for Eng-} land, accompanied by Mrs. Gathorne->- -». Hardy and their children, after a visit to.'.V her relatives in Wellington. ; ; 'Captain H. D. Hamilton, D.5.0., R.N., chief staff officer to the Oo_« : modore, commanding New Zealand naval': ~ station, left Wellington by the Rotorua;:, for England, after serving here for two ' years. Captain Hamilton is succeeded >by ti Captain F. A. Sommerville, D.5.0., R.N., from the Admiralty, who arrived* by the.Corinthic last week. "... . ■ . .'.. Sir J. Lynn-Thomas and Lady LyneThomas left Wellington on Friday sight en route for TimarE, where they will be y th«i guests of Mr. and- Mrs. TcuTiblallf'S They are expected to return to Wellington • about February 28, shortly after which they come to Auckland, where Sir ; ' John will attend €ho forthcoming medical; conference as the representative of ih» British Medic' Association. He will later enter upon a couple of months' fish- \ ing at Rotorua and Taupo prior to going •. over to Australia and thence to England. ~r~f