PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22403, 27 April 1936, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates and Mrs. Coates were passengers for Wellington by the limited express last evening, Mr. H. H. White Wickham, of' London, who has been on a fishing visit to the Dominion, is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. W. R. Brinsley, of Dunedin, managing-director of Radiation (New Zealand), Limited, arrived in Auckland yesterday. Ho is at the Grand Hotel. • Mr. A. A. Wright, Secretary for Native Affairs in Fiji,, has been appointed Administrator and Colonial Secretary o f St. Vincent, Windward Islands. Mr. T. Whelan, who has been act. ing-inanager in Dunedin of the Stand-l' ard Insurance Company, has left tV take up the position of manager of Auckland branch. Mr. A. C. Mitchell, official employers' representative at the International Labour Conference at Geneva year, will leave by the Aorangi tc-morrow on his way to Europe. Mr. C. H. Eckersley,' district manager of the Provident Life Assurance Company, Wunganui, has received! notice of his transfer on promotion to - head office, Melbourne. Mr. J. Malton Murray, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, sails by the Aorangi to-morrow for a six months'tour abroad, during which he will study methods of temperance education. Mr. F. Wilson, district inspector of factories at Hamilton, has been transferred to Cbristchurch after 16 years' service in Hamilton. He will be sue-' ceeded by Mr. J. Mclvor, of Nelson. Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., who *iit; leave shortly to attend the Intepnational Labour Conference at Geneva, has been granted special leave af absence by the Wellington Harbour Board. The Hon. Eliot R. Davis, the Hon.-. T. Bloodworth, the Hon. B. C. RoC; bins, the Hon. F. E. Lark, the Hon. B. Martin and the Hon. C. J. Ca?.' rington, M.L.C.'s, returned to Auckland by train on Friday. Mr. W. T. Iki-n, of Wellington, manager for New Zealand of the A.M.?, Society, and Mr. D. R. Menzies, 4 local director, left for Sydney by the Wanganella on Friday to attend the annual meeting of the society. • -= Mr. J. A. Steers, of Cambridge University, arrived by the Tamaroa from" London on Thursday evening,-, accompanied by Mr. F. E. Kemp, a surveyor, and left for Sydney by the Wanganella on Friday, Mr. Steers intends to continue investigations which, he conducted in 1928 regarding the formation of the Great Barrier Reef. .