PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21982, 13 December 1934, Page 14

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Smith left Auckland fey the limited express last evening foy Wellington. - : : Mr. E. R. N. Russell has been ap. pointed to the board of directors of K.D.V. Boxes, Limited. Mr. G. R. Hutchinson, a member of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, returned from Wellington yesterday!* morning. Mr. J. Hargest, ,M.P. for Invercar- ... gill, who has been on a short visit to Australia, returned to Wellington by the Monowai on Tuesday. Mr. P. B. Lynch, who has bee n awarded the Lord Bledisloe prize at Massev College for the best second-year student in the course for the agricultural science degree, is a son of Mr. W. Lynch, of Hastings. He won a Ruakura' Scholarship, entitling him to & two-year course of training at the Ruakura" Instructional Farm, and on th« termination of that course he continued bis studies with marked success at Massey College. Captain W. L. Jackson, D.5.0., R.N., who recently returned to England from New Zealand in command of H.M.S. Veronica, has been appointed to command H.M.S. Despatch in tha 3rd Cruiser Squadron, -Mediterranean Fleet. He succeeds Captain the Hon. E. R. Drummond, M.V.0., who in April will succeed Rear-Admiral F. Burges-Watson, D.5.0., as Commodore commanding the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. . .