PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 14

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Lisle Alderton left for Wellington by train yesterday afternoon. Mr. C. M. Richwhite left for Welling, ton last night by the limited express. Mr. F. J. Aneell returned to Welling, ton last night by the limited express. Captain R. C. Hammond travelled by the limited express to Wellington last ' night. Mr. A. W. Christmas returned from Wellington by the limited express yesterday morning. Mr. H. H. Bray, manager of th e British Neon Corporation, loft for Wellington last night by the limited express. Mr. T. P. Gilfedder, Devonport, who has been on an extended visit to the South Island, has returned to Auckland. Mr. W. H. Lee, who h:is been associated with S. A. Smith and Company, Limited ,for many years, has been pointed a director of the company. Captain 11. Stuart French, aide-de-camp to tho Governor-General, Viscount Galway, left for Wellington by air yestorday morning Mr. F. T. M. Kissel, chiof electrical engineer of the Public Works Department, was a passenger for Wellington by the limited express last night. Mr. Louis Whitcombo, managing director of Whitcombes. Limited, arrived by train from Wellington yesterday and returned last night. The Rev. J. C. Fussell, of Waimate North, is shortly taking temporary duty ut Queonstown, Otago, prior to retiring after 45 years of church work and settling at Waimate North. Sir Arthur and Lady Grant, whp arrived by the Rangitiki from London on February 12 and have since been on a trip away from Auckland, returned | yesterday. They are at Hotel Cargeh. | The Very Rev. Dr. N. Rossiter, C.M., rector of Holy Cross College, Mosgief, | arrived in Auckland by the limited J express yesterday morning to attend the j Catholic centenary celebrations. I Mr. D. McCowatt has been appointed chief postmaster at Thames in place | of Mr. J. Y. Cameron, who retires ! at the end of the month. Mr. McCowatt | is an inspector in the Post and Tele- ! graph Department. J Mr. L. Hunter, mining engineer in j charge of the Labour Department's gold | prospecting scheme in tho Rcefton and i Westland districts, has accepted a posii tion with a mining group operating in' i the Federated Malay States and Siam, ; Ho was a former student of the Corol mandel School of Mines and has had considerable experience both in Ner Zealand and overseas.