PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. EL C. McTaggart, of Wellington,, and Mr. F. F. Wale, of Sydney, aio at' Stonehurst.

Captain L. Macintosh Ellis, director of ' forestry, returned to the ciouth by the - express last evening.

Mr. H. N. Bain bridge, cf Melbourne who lias been at the Grand Hotel, leaves for Sydney by the Niagara to-night.

Mr. J. McG'lashan, of Dunedin, Mr. N A. Kooford and Mr. N. E. Daverkesen' of Copenhagen, are at the Royal Hotel '

Captain R. Ellis, and Captain Lindsay of Nelson, British Columbia, arrived bv the Niagara yesterday on a short visft to Now Zealand. ■

Mr. C. W. Mack, of Wellington, Mr and Mrs. C. A. Crosbie, and Mr. T. M Henderson, of Vancouver, are at the Star Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Newlands, of Pitta burg, and Mr. H. Woolfson, of Glasgow who arrived by the Niagara yesterday are at the Hotel Cargen. " *

Mr. S. D. E. Weir was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Stringer,! on tho motion of Mr. A. H. Johnstone. V

Mr. W. G. Jones, managing director of tho Wanganui Chronicle, who has been on an extended visit to Great Britain, the Continent, and Canada, returned by the Niagara yesterday. He i* at the Central Hotel.

Mr. and Mr*. W. Coltman, of Auckland, who have been on an extended tout to Great Britain ,and the Continent, during which they motored 4000 'miles through England, Scotland and "Wales returned by the Niagara yesterday.

Sir John Luke, M.P., of .Wellington has arrived in London from his South African Parliamentary tour, gays a Press Association cablegram. He is visiting his son, who is a post-graduate • engineer. Sir John will spend Christmas with his relatives iu Cornwall.

Mr. J. S. Jesscp, vice-ch;iirman of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Tahiti from Sydney. Mr. Jc-s'sep left-New Zealand in April Inst main.v on a health recruiting trip. Ho has Visited Britain and the Continent.

Mr. David Jones, of Christchurch, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, returned by the Niagara yesterday from a mission of investigation in Great Britain, . Europe, and North America. He is accompanied by Mrs Jones, 'and left for Wellington by the Main Trunk last evening. -

The Rev. Stanley Morrison, the newlyappointed minister to the Mount Eden Congregational Church, who has been doing evangelical work in the United States, arrived by the Niagara yesterday. He will bo welcomed at a meeting tomorrow evening, and . will ' open his ministry next Sunday.

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. L. Cumpston, of Melbourne, Mr. and Mrs. D. Hurley, of New York, Mr. E. M. Edwards, of Toronto, Mr. H. G. Young, of Boston, Mr. H. Sherry, of San Francisco, and Mr. K. Ballantyne, of Christchurch, passengers by the Niagara yesterday, are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. A. McVernon, chairman of the Queensland Insurance Company, who with Mrs. McVernon, has been on a visit to the United States, returned by the Niagara yesterday on their way home to Sydney. While in New York Mr • Mover non opened a branch of his company in that city.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. Spencer Smith, who was in New Zealand prior to the war, and took an active part in. the establishment of the territorial system, arrived by the Niagara, yesterday. He proposes, to spend two months" in the - South Island, and will later return to England, via Australia. '

Messrs. Cyrus J. R. Williams, -engineer to the f-ytteltoD Harhour Board, and F. W. Furkerfc, chief engineer to the Public Works Department, who formed the special commission of inquiry into, the collapse of the Western Wharf, left Auckland last evening by the Main Trunk express for the South.

The Hon. Walter M. Marks, M.P., of Sydney, and Mrs. Marks, the Bon. R. B. Orchard, C.8.E., of Sydney, with Mrs. Orchard, and their son and three daughters, and Mr. 0. S. Nathan, of Western Australia, are through passengers by the Niagara,, returning to Australia after visiting Great Britain. Messrs. Orchard and Nathan are members of the Commonwealth Commission responsible, for Australia's display at the British Empire Exhibition.