PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and x Mrs. M. McLaren, of Glasgow, are at Stonehurst. ,

The Rev. Father Spillane left by train for Wellington last evening. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Matthews, of "Wellington, are at the Star Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Wicksteed, of England, are at the Grand HoteL Mr. Angus Bunting has returned to Auckland from a business trip to England and America. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Blundell, of Te Kuiti, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Ellis, of Otorohanga, are at the Central HoteL Mr. M. Okamoto, of the Department of Agriculture, Japan, is visiting Hamilton, and is studying the dairying conditions in the Waikato. Mr. E. Stevens, of Palmerston North, Mr. C. A. Boles, of Taumarunui, Mr. J. Cnrrie, of Whangarei, and Mr. A. Potts, of Hokianga, are at-the Royal Hotel. Captain T. J. Watts, advisory superintendent of Dominion fire brigades, left by train last evening to make an inspection tour of Hawke's Bay 1 and the Wairarapa. i The R-ev. J. Milne, of Thames, Mr. H. E. Burton, of Wellington, Mr. S. W. Cor bridge, of Palmerston North, and Mr. 1 E. Kelleher, of Huntly, are at the Star Hotel. . Mr. E. E. North, of Brisbane,.Mr. A. Brown, Mr. A. J. Johns and Mr. E. G. Taylor, of Wellington, Mr G. Jamieson and Mr. T. W. Lewis,"* of Christchurch, aro at the Grand Hotel. Mr. P. J. O'Regan and Mr. F. W. Vickerman, of Wellington, Mr. W. J. Newman, of Nelson, Mr. B. Bramner, Mr. W. J. Campbell and Mr. T. Stewart, of Dunedin, and Dr. T. H. R. McKeirnan, of Te Kopuru, are at the Central Hotel. Sir John and Lady Sulman and their daughter, together with Mr. S. Hurst Seagar, arrived in Wanganui yesterday morning from Auckland and were met by the Mayor, Mr. Hope Gibbons. Sir John was taken to various places of interest in the city and inspected the site and plam for the civic centre. The visitors will leave for Rotorua to-day. Mr. B. S. Rowntree, managing director of Rowntree and Company, Limited, York, England, is a passenger on the Niagara, which is due at Auckland from Vancouver on Monday. Mr. Rowntree, who will proceed to Australia and the East, is a keen student of social and industrial conditions and has devoted much time to these questions in the United Kingdom. He has written several books dealing with unemployment, labour, industrial and social conditions generally.