PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22579, 18 November 1936, Page 14

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. R. A. Spinley returned from WelJington yesterday. Mr. Rudall C. Hay ward left I as t night for Christchurch. Sir Henry Horton and Lady Horton will arrive at Auckland from London by the Rangitata this morning. Mr. H. E. Moston, chief inspector of factories in the Labour Department Wellington, is visiting Hamilton. ' Mr. W. J. Holds worth, chairman of the Auckland Electric-Power Board left for Wellington by train last night] Ma jor-Gcneral Sir Andrew Russell and Lady Russell are passengers by the Rangitata, due at Auckland this morn- ' ing from London. Sir James Parr, former High Commissioner in London for New Zealand will arrive at Auckland this morning by the ltangitata. Vicomte and Vicomtesse do Tnillepied de Bondy are passengers by the Ha. ngitata, whi'-h is due at Auckland from London this morning. Mr. G. G. Maeindoe, chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, returned by the limited express vestewftiv after a short visit to Wellington. Mr. .7. S. Barton, chairman of the Bondholders' Incorporation Commission, left Auckland for Wellington by the limited express last night. Canon E. S. Savage, rector of one of the oldest churches in London, St. Bartholomew the Great, is a passenger from London by the Rangitata, which is duo at Auckland this morning. Dr. J. H. Wood, who is in iempornrv charge of the physio-therapv department at the Auckland Hospital, haj been granted six months' leave of absence to visit England. Sir Edward. Harding, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State in the Dominions Office, who has been touring New Zealand, will leave Wellington for Sydney by the Wanganella to-morrow. Mr. S. J. Laiiiorna Birch, R.A., an English artist whose work is represented in the National Art Gallery in Wellington, will arrive at Auckland bv the Rangitata from London to-day on a short visit. Major-General Sir John Davidson, a director of the Union Bank of Ai;s-* tralia, is due at Sydney on December '6 by the Otranto from London on his way to New Zealand for a short visit. He is accompanied by Lady Davidson. The Hon. J. W. Downie, a delegate from the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce, Southern Rhodesia, to the recent congress of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, left by the Awatea for Sydney yesterday afternoon. Mr. Douglas P. Lee. elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy G. Lee, of Remuera. has been promoted to the rank of flight-lieutenant in the Roval Air Force, according to advice which has been received by his parents. FlightLieutenant Lee is at present stationed at Hinaidi, Irak. Mr. G. E. Turney, assistant-district public trustee at* Invercargill for the last eight years, has been transferred to Wellington as third district public trustee. His successor at Invercargill will be Mr. T. J. Dwyer, at present second assistant district public trustee in Christchurch. Mr. J. Brown, manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Ageaw Company, Limited, at Te Puke, Till retire on December- 31, after over 29 vears' service with tho company. He will be succeeded by Mr. L. A. Sisam, now agent at Whakatane, who has been appointed acting-manager for the Bav of Plenty as from January 1.