PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. C. J- Tunks returned from Well, ington by train yesterday morning, ' Mr. W. W. Meek returned from Wellington by train yesterday lsMr. E. S. Coutts left by the Mariposa on a visit to Sydney and bourne.

Mr. H. M. Rush worth, M.P. for Bay of Islands, left for Wellington by train yesterday afternoon.

Mr. C. K. Grierson returned on tho limited express yesterday morning after a business visit to Wellington.

Mr. J. S. Hunter, Commissioner or Transport, left on his return to Wellington by the limited express last evening.

Mr. H. M. Salisbury, of the Nash Motor Company, arrived yesterday by tha Mariposa on a business trip to the Dominion. , 7 f'

Dr. J. K. Dixon, of Christchurch, has been appointed temporary assistant in the chemistry department of the University of Otago.

Mr. P. L. Williamson, a Sydney barrister, was a through passenger on the Mariposa yesterday, after a holiday trip to California.

'Sir Hubert Wilkins, the noted polar explorer, arrived in Auckland by aeroplane from Wellington yesterday. Ha is at the Grand Hotel.

Dr. R. G. Thompson, Government medical officer at Tonga, arrived yesterday by the Mariposa on a health ttip to New Zealand. He will proceed later to England. ••

Mr. A. Corrigan, superintending marine engineer of Burns Philp and Company, Limited, passed through Auckland yesterday on the Mariposa after a business-trip to Fiji.

Mr. G. David Larson, trade counsellor' of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, who -is visiting New Zealand, arrived at Auckland yesteiday from Napier. He is at the Station Hotel. • , ;V

Bishop Kempthorne, the Bishop it Polynesia, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Mariposa to "attend tha General Synod at Napier tare© weeks hence. Afterward he will pay an official visit to Australia and thee proceed to Nauru and Ocean Islands He is accompanied by Mrs. Kempthorne and their daughter.

Mr. G- K. 'Howard, a vice-president of General Motors Export Company, was a through passenger on the Mariposa yesterday on his way to Australia on business! He was accompanied by Mrs. Howard, and they will return to the Dominion in about three weeks, afr. T. W. Tinkham and Mr: L.'J. Hartnett, executives of the same company, were in the party.

Messrs. A. M. Ferguson, Consul for Belgium in Auckland, Professor Maxwell Walker, professor of French at Auckland University College, and Professor F. F. Milks, professor cf French at" Victoria College, have had inferred upon them by the French Government the distinction of Officier D'Academie The award has-been madd on the 1 recommendation of M. Edouarq Joubert, Consul for France at Auck land, by decree dated January 3, 1934