PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22046, 28 February 1935, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. B. MacEwan, of Wellington is at the Grand Hotel.. ' Mr. R. A. Laidlaw left for Wellington by the limited express last evening. Mr. Oliver Nicholson was a passenger for Wellington by t last evening's limited express. Mr. R. G. Macmorran, chief drainage engineer at Auckland, returned from Napier yesterday morning. The Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C. of Nelson, arrived in Auckland by thg limited express yesterday morning. . £ Mr. W. McK. Jeffrey, general manager and engineer of the Hume Pip 4 Company and of Hume Steel, Limited will with Mrs. Jeffrey, leave at the end of March on a ten months' tour of Great Britain and the Continent. Mr. Murray A". Tastier, son of Mr; C. H. Fastier, of the Bank of New Zealand at Heiensville, will leave Mel« bourne on Saturday for London to continue his musical studies at the Royal School of Music. ' 4' Mr. A. J. Smith, of the Bengal Civil Service, arrived in Wellington on Monday by the Marama from Sydney on * holiday visit. Mr. Smith, who was born in Wellington, will spend about two' months in New Zealand before returning to India. f ' Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gilmour, <j| Western Australia, arrived in Wellington on Monday by the Marama. Miv Gilmour has been appointed manager of Emulsified Asphalt (N.Z.), whose head office is in Wellington Formerly he was the Western Australian Government's metropolitan engineer for main roads. Mr. I. C. Morrison has arrived in Wellington from England. Formerly manager of exhibitions on the High Commissioner's staff in London, he was for many years manager and part-pro-prietor of the British Australian and New Zealander, published in London.' For health reasons Mr. Morrison intends to live in New Zealand. Admiral Clement Watson is a passenger on the Tamaroa, due at Auckland from England this evening. Admiral Watson was Naval Assistant to tlje Third Sea Lord and was Director of Naval Equipment from 1913 to 1917. Ho was senior naval officer, Shetlands, from 1917 to 1919 and later commanded the Portsmouth division,, reserve fleet. In 1917 he was appointed an A.D.C. to the King. He retired in 1922.