PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23069, 21 June 1938, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. Hargest; M.P. for Awarua; ' is visiting the Waikato. • • . ■ i - . ■/ Mr. T. 0. Bishop returned to Well, ington by the limited express last night. Mr. J. Barr, city librarian, returned from Wellington by the limited express yesterday. Mr. A. G. Osborne, M.P. for Manukau, returned from the South by train yesterday morning. Mr. and Mrs. P. McSkimming, of Dunedin, left for the South by yesterday afternoon's train. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, Attorney. General, left for Wellington by the limited express last night. Archbishop O'Shea, who has been on a visit to Sydney, returned to Wellington by the Awatea yesterday. Mr. Stronach Paterson, accompanied by Mrs. Paterson, arrived in Auckland yesterday. They are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. James Lobb, of Lawrence, Central Otago, who recently returned from his tenth world tour, is spending a few days in Auckland. The Rev. Albert Mead, who has been pastor for 10 years of the Moray Place Congregational Church, Dunedin, has accepted an invitation to return to Capetown to take up work there. The Rev. I. R. Poison, of Sawyers Bay, Otago, has . accepted a call from the Dipton Presbyterian Church, . Southland. The ordination and induction will take place on Thursday. Mr. C. F. Pugsley, manager of the Southern Cross Assurance Company, Limited, in Wellington, arrived from the South by yesterday's limited express. He is at the Central Hotel. Mr. A. Turner, supervisor of the banana trade for the Internal Marketing Department, accompanied by Mrs. Turner, left by the limited express last night to take up residence in Wellington. . Mr. A. Service, honorary commissioner of the Boy Scouts' Association in New Zealand, returned by train yesterday from Wellington, where he attended the quarterly meeting of the Dominion executive of the association. Mr. Douglas Robb was welcomed yesterday by the acting-chairman of the council of Auckland University Col--lege, Mr. T. U. Wells, when he attended his first meeting as the new representative on the council of the Court of Convocation. Auckland Uni-'; versity District. Mr. J. F. Filmer. veterinary research officer at the Wallaceville laboratory, Wellington, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of -Veterinary Science bv the Melbourne University. Mr. i Filmer was recently engaged by the 1 Department of Agriculture to take charge of cobalt research, work, ■■ ■ •' Mr. F. W. Saxton has been . appointed a technical adviser to the; Department of Industries and Commerce. With nearly 20 years' an industrial chemist, Mr. the first chemist of the Wellington City Corporation, and for four years he was in private practice in: Christ- • church and Dunedin. For the past ■ seven years he has been chief, chemist [ in a large industrial concern.