PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22933, 11 January 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir George Shirtcliffe, of Wellington arrived in Auckland by air yesterday;^^lf| Mr. C. G. Macindoe left for Well." 1 ington by the afternoon express yejter* dayMr. F. B. Dwyer, of the Department P® of Internal Affairs, left for Wellington by the limited express l&st night. Mr. F. Maurice Clarke, manager of - Union Airways of New Zealand ft Limited, left for Palmcrston North bv aii* yesterday. ,•' Captain C. E. Hotham, who was in command of H.M.S. Laburnum in \* PW vZealand from 1929 to 1931, has been appointed to H.M.S. Hawkins. .'§?/' Mr. A. H. Cockayne, Director-Get. eral of Agriculture, arrived from Wellington by the limited express yesterday morning. He will leave for the Waikafo \ to-morrow. '. ■ Rear-Admiral the Hon. E. R. Drum-' mobnd, commodore commanding the New Zealand Division of the Royal ? Navy, left for Wellington by the limited * express last night. Mr. H. J. D. Mahon. president Auckland University College, left by -y the limited express Jast night on hts way to Dunedin to attend the annual session of the Senate of the Universifcv * of New Zealand. * "Jf Mr. E. C. Huie, of Christchurqh, who has been representing the Press Christchurch, in London on a specialV business trip lasting several months is returning to New Zealand by the ' - Akaroa, which left Southampton on December 28, ,> Mr. G. D. Walton, of arrived at Auckland by thfe Mariposa vesterday to continue with the of the Catholic pageant play. "Credo,"which is to be performed at Western' Springs as part of the Catholic centenary celebrations.

Mr. C. W. R. Powell, of Sydney, and formerly of Auckland, technical advisor for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited, was a through passen-. ger for San Francisco by the Mariposa from Sydney yesterday on a business V? visit to the United States, England and%' Europe. .

Mr. R. A. Back, who has been gen- . eral representative of the .Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, at San Francisco since 1912, M and who lately retired on superan-' nuation, returned to New Zealand byf the Aorangi yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Back. They .are at the Grand ' Hotel.

Mr. C. C. F. Young, a representative of the London office of Canadian Pacific Steamships, Limited, who has been visiting New Zealand in connection with,, the visit of the Empress of Britain in April, will leave Auckland to-day by' the Aorangi for Sydney. He will return to the Dominion from Australia by the Empress of Britain.

Mr. L. J. Wild, headmaster of thfe Feilding Agricultural High School and president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, returned by f the Aorangi yesterday with Mrs. Wild from an eight months' in which, he visited Canada, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and the United Stated: % Mr. and Mrs. Wild left for the south by yesterday afternoon's express. Captain V. G. Webb, marine superintendent, and Mr. R. L. Gillies, superintending engineer of .the Uniftn Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. Limited, who have been in the United - Kingdom for some nionths in connec: tion with the company's shipbuildilitf; programme, are returning to the Boi ! minion by the Stratheden. They are ex- ? pected in Wellington at the beginning of next month. V 1 -V , Mr. G. H. Mackley, general manager of railways, arrived by the limited express frpm Wellington veste«lay - v roorning, to meet Mr. H. W. Clapp, chairman of the Victorian Railways ' Commissioners, Melbourne, who was a passenger by the Mariposa from/Sydney. They are,at the Grand Hotel and will leave for the Rotorua district this morning, Mr. Mackley 'will return to Wellington to-morrow. i : ■