PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21131, 14 March 1932, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. P. O. Lowe, of Dunedin, the Hotel Cargen. at Mr. R. T. Duthrie, of Dunedin, ic •>» the Station Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wilson, of En*, land, are at the Grand Hotel. ' Mr. and Mrs. E. Powell, of Taeroa are at the Central Hotel. Mr. A. C. Barnes, Director of Agricnlture in Fiji, is at present in Wellington" Mr. P. Hally, conciliation commissioner returned to Auckland from Wellington on Saturday. The Rev. J. A. Allan, of Riccarton. has been elected moderator of the Christ church Presbytery. Mr. J. R. Robertson, of the Railwavg Department, Wellington, has been appointed a member of the Railways Appeal Board. ' Mr. J. S. Payne, of Wellington, ifr M. S. C. Gordon, Mr. R. K® Gordon and Mr. C. W. Wood, of Hastings ar « at the Central Hotel. Staff-Captain T. E. Holmes ha s been appointed manager of the Salvation Army Industrial Home, Epsom, in addition to his duties as Samaritan officer. Mr. W. Jenkins, of Jnvercargil], J[r C Lynch, of Wellington, Mr. C. Hasfett* of Rotorua, and Mr. A. Wiseman, of Oforohanga, are at the Royal Hotel'. The Rev. T. P. Weatherhog, formerly vicar of Oiorohanga, has been appointed chaplain of All Saints' Church, and 0 f the Missions to Seamen, Rio de Janeiro. Sir William Ellis, managing-director of John Brown and Company, Clydebank who has been on a tour of the South Is! land, was in Wellington at the week, end. Mr. d'Auvergne Boxall, a member of the Canterbury Society of Arts, now resident in Adelaide, has been appointed ' assistant art master at the Sydnev Technical College. Sir James Parr, Lender of the Legislative Council, left Wellington on Friday for the purpose of delivering addresses on Empire trade at Danncvirke and Hastings, ■ under the auspices of the respective Rotary Clubs and Chambers of Commerce. The Hon. A. 51. Zwar and Mr. B. M Zwar, of Melbourne, Mr. W. Strang and Mr. G. Strang, of Heretaunga, Mr. A. D. Paterson, of Christchurch, Mr. R. H. Goldthorpe, of Wellington, and Mr. G. Benson, of Dunedin, are at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. C. I. Dasent will retire at the end of the present month from the secretaryship of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, which he has held for the past 25 years. At its meeting last week thd council of the society placed on record its appreciation of his services to acclimatisation in the Dominion.