PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. C. K. Grierson was a passenger for; | Wellington by the express last evening. Squadron-Leader T. M. Wilkes, Director of Air Services, left for Wellington by train Inst evening. Mr. A. J. Campbell, formerly manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Gore, who recently retired, is seriously ill. Mr. George E. Clark, of Pretoria, who is visiting Auckland, will leave this morn- 1 ing for tho Waitomo Caves. Ho will later • visit Rotorua and Wellington. Mr. A. M. Seaman left for Wellington l l yesterday to attend a meeting of the % Council of Scientific and Industrial R e - ; search. He expects to return to Auckland > at the end of tho week'. Mr. Hallylnirton .Johnstone, of Atick- '■ land, donor of the trophy for the interprovincial eight-oar rowing championship, accompanied tho Auckland crew yesterday - when it left for Wellington, where this ' year's raco will bo held on Saturday. Lieutenant F. W. G. McLeod, conductor of the New Plymouth Regimental Municipal Band, will Jeavo for Australia this week to adjudicate at the Queensland Stato brass bands contest, which is ; to bo held at Mackay. He expects to be away about fivo weeks. Tho Rev. JI. A. Rugby Pratt, ex-presi-dent of tho Methodist Church of N ew Zealand, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. Mr. Prnlt published in England last year "The Pioneering Days of Southern Maoriliiihl," a book dealing with the history of Otngo and Southland prior to th a establishment of the Presbyterian settlement in 1848.