PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. W. J. Lyon, M.P. for Wait®, mata, returned from Wanganui yesterday.

Mr. I. J. Goldstine, Mayor of One Tree Hill, will leave for Wellington by train to-night.

Mr. C. R. Ford and Mr. W. H. Gummer returned yesterday after visiting Wellington.

Mr. R- H. Allen, secretary of Amalgamated Theatres, Limited, returned from the South by train yesterday.

Mr. E. L. Rutledgc, general manager of Fox Films in New Zealand, arrived in Auckland from Wellington yesterday, and is at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. W. de Gruchy, colonial director of the Port Line, arrived from tho South by train yesterday. He is at the Grand Hotel, and will leave for Sydney by the Maunganui to-night. -

The Rev. W. C. Wood, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, left by train yesterday for Wellington, to discuss with the Minister of Health plans for the rebuilding of the hospital.

Mr. W. J. McGrath, a member of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramway Board, who is concluding a tour of New Zealand, arrived in Auckland yesterday, and is at the Grand Hotel.

Dr. Alistair Thomson, formerly of Christchurch and at present on the staff of the New Plymouth Hospital, will leave Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday for England. He will take up a position in Birmingham.

Mr. 0. M. Samuel, who has been manager of the Paeroa branch of th<> Bank of New Zealand for the past six years, has been appointed manager of' the bank's Suva branch. He trill leave New Zealand in about five weeks' time.

Mr. JVM. Austin, of Duncdin, who . was recently appointed to the staff of the Masterton High School, has accepted an appointment to a position in the -meteorological department in Samoa, and will leave Wellington on J Monday for Apia.

Mr. A. D. Jackson. of the staff or the Tinjaru Boys' High School, h. 19 boon advised of his election as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, for exploration and mountaineering in thf Dart-Barrier and Olivine Ranges of Western Otago.