PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Walter Stringer arrived from the South by train yesterday morning.

Mr. D Holderness returned from the South bj tram yesterday morning.

Mr. T. P. M. Bevan left for "Well-, vngton by last evening's limited express.

Mr. A. W. Christmas returned from the South by the limited express on Saturday.

Mr. W. A. Taafe left for Wellington and Christchurch by the limited express last evening.

Mr. J. A C. Allum returned from Wellington by Saturday morning's limited express.

Mr. Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland, returned on Saturday from a short yachting cruise.

Mr. Justice Blair arrived by train yesterday morning to preside at the Supreme Court sessions.

Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, returned from Wellington by train yesterday morning.

Mr. J. N. Massey was a passenger to Pukekolie by the first express from the South on Saturday morning.

Mr. R. Ferner, Mayor of Mount Albert, returned by train on Saturday morning after visiting Wellington on borough business.

Mr. K. S. Dyson, district engineer for the Public Works Department, wag a passenger for the South by the limited express last evening.

Mr. A. J. Murdoch, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, arrived from the South by train on Saturday morning on his way to North Auckland.

Colonel and Mrs. W. G. MacKendrick. of Toronto, who have been on a visit to Kerikeri, have returned to Auckland and are at Hotel Cargen.

Sir Maynard Hedstrom. of Fiji, who has been* in the Mater Hospital sinre January 24, left for Rotorua on.Saturday. He was accompanied by Lady Hedstrom.

Mr. C. G. Macindoe, chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, who has been on a holiday visit to Russell, where he did some deep-sea fishing, returned home yesterday.

The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, AttorneyGeneral and Minister of Justice, arrived from the South by train yesterday morning, and left again by the limited express last night.

Mr, J. H. Beale, a member of the Mount Eden Borough Council, wbo underwent a major operation at the Auckland Hospital early last week, is now progressing favourably.

Sir Francis Frazer, deputy-chairman of the Executive Commission of Agriculture, and Mr. I>. Jones, a member, arrived from the South on Saturday. They are at the Central Hotel.

Colonel J. L. Sleeman, chief commissioner of the St. John Ambulant Brigade Overseas, arrived in Auckland yesterday by motor-car from Tauranga in the course of a New Zealand tour. He is at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. J. R. Thompson, who has been principal of the Ashburton Technical Hiirh School for the last 12 years, ia retiring on superannuation as from.. the ond of March, after 42 years in the teaching profession. His resigna'-' tion . was accepted by the Board of.. Managers of the school last week.. '

The Hon. J. Alexander, M.L.C.;f and Mr. H. M. Rushworth, M.P. for; Bay of Islands, were passengers from ; the South by train on Saturday morn--ing. Mr. J. A. Lee, Parliamentary\ Under-Secretary to the Prime Mini* ter, and Mr. A. S. Richards, M.P.\ for Roskiil, arrived from Wellington.'' by train yesterday morning.

Mr. J. Kerr, second engineer of tl» Shaw, Savill and Albion Company : B«: vessel Waiwera, has been appointed an inspector of machinery to the Marine Department. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Roberts,,Kerr and Son, Scotland, and joined the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company in 1922. While the Waiwera was bein? constructed at Belfast Mr. Shaw represented the company at the yard» and came out to New Zealand on tlie vessel's maiden .voyage.

Commissioner J. Barnard Turner ha» been appointed by General Evangeline Booth to sit as international Representative at the New Zealand annual territorial congress of the Salvation Army, which opens on March 19 at Wellington. Ho succeeds Commissioner Charles Jeffries, who died en route to Australia and New Zealand. Commissioner Turner joined the Salvation Army at Toronto, Canada, in 1885, and has served in nearly a» its' branches, having been chief secretary of territory in Canada, t-h» United States and South America.