PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22427, 25 May 1936, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. B. Waters has been re-electeA©! chairman of the Otago HarbGur Boar<j Sir George Elliot returned from the south by Saturday morning's limited express. M„ w. P. M.P., 21 from Wellington by train yesterday P morning. ' Mr. N. A. Duthie returned from Wellington by Saturday morning', limited express. Mr. A. M. Seaman returned fro'mC the south by the limited express on ■ Saturday morning. Mr. J. B. Henry was a passenger from Wellington by the limited ex. press on Saturday morning. Mr. Robert Bell, of Christchnrch is a through passenger on the Niagara! en route to Canada and Scotland." V ■" . % Mr. F. C. G. Huse, senior audit in. spector for the Railways Department left for the south by train last night'

Mr. F. Beaumont Smith, managing, director of the J. C. WilHamson p£ ture Corporation- (N.Z.),'limited, i. at the Grand Hotel.

Sir George Shirtcliffe and Lady Shirt, eliffe will leave' Wellington by th& Tamaroa this evening for a visit to England.

Mr. H. E. McKay, until lately rail*; way transport officer at Dunedin, bai taken up his duties as stationmaster at Christchurch.

Rear-Admiral J. S. M. Ritchie and : Mrs. Ritchie will be passengers by the Tamaroa, which leaves Wellington thij evening for Southampton. .*-?

Mr. W. J. Grant, editor of the Rafctf goon Times, -Burma, who is on a lec-* turing tour of the Empire, will arm® in Auckland torday from the South.

Mr. 11. C. Dormer and Mr. L. JJ. Beck, of J. Inglis Wright, Limited' Advertising, have returned from a rigjt to the head ojfice of the company in Wellington.

Mr. J. L. Barriball, accountant of' the Christchurch branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, has been ap. pointed manager of the bank's Pukekohe branch.

Mr. G. R. Hutchinson and Dr. 8. K. Phillips, members of the Broai casting Board, were passengers from the south by the limited express on Saturday morning.

Major-General Sir William SinclairBurgess, general officer commanding the New Zealand military forces, wag a passenger by the limited express for Wellington last night.

Mr. T. J. Pemberton, of the Lon* don office of the Associated Press, who has been seriously ill since early fii April, underwent a successful major operation in London last week. ?

Mr. M. C. Chan, principal of tho Middle School of Ling Nan University, Canton, who is making an educational tour of New Zealand, arrived from Wellington by the express on Satur-: day. ; . '»|

Sir Herbert Hart, who Was lately appointed representative of the Imperial War Graves Commission in the territory between" Cairo and Constantinople, will leave Wellington for Eng-; : land by the evening with Lady Hart and Miss* Hart.

Mr. R. G. Simmers, M.Sc.,' of the * j aviation section of the Meteorological 5 Office, has been awarded a Common-;; wealth Fund service scholarship for two years' study and research in meteorology at American universities, and will leave New Zealand in August. ' Lieutenant-Commander Peter Dawnay, who has been posted to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, and his bride. Lady Angela Dawnav, sister of H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, are passengers by the Mataroa, which is due at Wellington from England on June 17. ——— Mr. F. F. M. Ferguson, manager of the Dunlop Rubber Company (N.Z.), Limited, has returned to Wellington after seven months' absence from Ner"' Zealand, including four months in Eng\ land. He visited the United States of America and Canada on his wajr to England, and returned via the Mediterranean, spending a month in India.

Mr. A. F. Stuart, who recently completed 60 years as a compositor with the Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, received a presentation from his fellow workers last week. Mr. Stuart joined the printing staff of the New Zealand Herald in July, 1871, and after » period with the Auckland Star took op his present employment at Dunedin.

Tho Hon. J. Alexander, the H«n.' T. Blood worth, Hon. C. J. Car-, rington and the Hon. Eliot R. fttv'i*,. M.L.C.'s, and Mr. W. T. Anderton, : . Mr. >W. J. Jordan, Mr. W. J. Lvoh,. Mr. C. R. Petrie, Mr. A. S. Richard*,; Mr. F. W. Schramm and Mr. A. C. A. Sexton, M.P v 's, were from the South by train on Saturna* morning. Mr. Lyon returned to WeIFJ ington by last evening's express. L"