PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. V. J. Larner returned to Auckland by train yesterday morning. Sir James and Lady Gunson returned by train from Palmerston North yesterday morning. Dr. J. Hardie Neil, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned by train yesterday morning. Messrs. A. Harris and W. J. Jordan, M.P.'s, left for Wellington by the limited last evening. Mr. C. F. Eskell, manager in New Zealand for Universal Films, left for Wellington by train last evening. The Hons. Eliot R. Davis and T. BlOodworth, M.L.C.'s, were passengers by Saturday morning's express from Wellington. Major F. C. Soar, of Onehunga, has been gazetted as transferred from the reserve of officers to the active list, and posted to the 21st Battery. Commander B. C. B. Brooke, officer in charge of the Devonport naval baso, was a passenger from Wellington by the limited express on Saturday morning. Captain R. C. Hammond, manager of the Northern Steamship Company, Limited, was among the passengers by Saturday's limited express from Wellington. Mr. G. P. Finlay, who has been representing the native rs.ee before the Native Affairs Commission, returned from Wellington by train on Saturday morning. Mr. W. C. Barry, director of the livestock division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington, who has been visiting Auckland, will leave to-day for Hamilton. Mr. A. Grayson, president of the Automobile Association, and Mr. E. K. Champtaloup, touring manager, were passengers from Palmerston North by " Saturday morning's express. Messrs. W. P. Endean. J. A. Lee, H. G. R. Mason, W. W. Massey, W. E. Parry, A. S. Richards, F. W. Schramm and A. J. Stallworthy, M.P.'s, arrived from Wellington by train on Saturday morning. , 5 Mr. J. Pow, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' "Union, who recently underwent an operation in a private hospital in Wellington, is making good progress toward recovery, and was able to leave the hospital on Friday. Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric-Power Board, Mr. N. M. Speer, secretary, and Mr. H. M. Rogerson, solicitor to the board, returned by train on Saturday mnriling, after a visit to Wellington in connection with loan conversion matters. Mr. C. M. Richwhite, secretary of the Challenge Phosphate Company, with Mrs. Richwhite,''left by the British Phosphate Commission's steamer Triona on Saturday for Nauru and Ocean Islands. They expect to be away for about two months, returning via Sydney and Melbourne. Lieutenant-Colonel N. W. B. B. . Thorns, D.5.0., M.C., late New Zealand Staff Corps, who has been Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Force for the last three years, was awarded a C.B.E. in the King's Birthday Honours, recently gazetted. L'eutenantColonel Thorns has now retired and is living in Kent. Mr. Geoffrey Denniston, formerly of Christ's College, and now resident in Adelaide, has been appointed to the staff of Wanganui Collegiate School, and with Mrs. Denniston and their children, is expected to arrive .in New Zealand by the Wanganella on September 12. Mrs. Denniston is a daughter of Sir Francis and Lady Bell,- Wellington. Lieutenant-Colonel K. M. Tennant, M.M., has relinquished the command of the North Auckland Mounted Rifles, and has been transferred to the reserve of officers. Major W. R. Lang, M.C., has been appointed to command the regiment, with the rank of lieuten-ant-colonel. Captain W. W. Horwell, M.M., reserve of officers, has been appointed to the Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment. ? Mr. O. J. Wright, chief p<t tmaster at Invercargill, is about to retire from the Post and Telegraph Department, and ceases active duty to-day, Mr. Wright joined the department as a message boy at Otakj on September 1, 1893, and since that time has been employed at various periods at most of the important offices in the Dominion. He was appointed to his present position in 1931. *