PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23150, 23 September 1938, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Eliot R. Davis, M.L.C returned yesterday morning from Weill ington. Captain R. C. Hammond, manager of the Northern Steamship Company Limited, returned from Wellington b" train yesterday. J Messrs. W. J. Lyon and A. G.' Osborne, M.P.'s, were passengers from the south by train yesterday morning Mr. Osborne is to leave to-day for Rotorua. Mr. G. F. Dixon, private secretary to the Attorney-General and Minister of .Justice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason left for Wellington by the limited express last night. Dr. R. A. Shore. . acting-Director. General of Health, who has visiting Dargaville on official business, left Auckland by train yesterday afternoon on his return to Wellington. Mr. W. J. Morrell, chancellor o{ Otago University, and Mr. L. 0. Ritchie, vice-chancellor, have been appointed the university's representatives on the Senato of the University of New Zealand. Dr. E. P. Ellison, chief medical officer in the Cook Islands, left Auckland by the Matua. yesterday for Suva, where he is to join a chartered schooner for the purpose of investigating leprosy on outlying islands. Mr. H. S. Bowden, who has|been a member of the Christehurch stftif of the National Insurance Company "of New Zealand, Limited, for the last 10 vears, lias been appointed manager of the company's Wangnnui branch. He will take up his new duties on October I.' Sir Theodore Rigg, director of the Cawthron Institute, and Dr. D. Miller, who is assistant director of the institute and director of the entomological division of the Plant Research Bureau, were passengers by train from Wellington yesterday morning. They are at the Waverley Hotel. The Mayor. Sir Ernest Davis, who has been confined to his home for thd past fortnight through indisposition, was absent from the City Council meeting last night. In a letter of apology he stated that he expeclfed to resume his official duties next week. The deputy-mayor, Mr. J. A. C. Allura, presided in his absence. Mr. E. H. F. Swain, Forestry Commissioner of New South Wales, and Mr. M. B. Welch, chief of the wood technology division, members of tho delegation representing the New South Wales State Forestry Commission, arrived in Auckland yesterday by train from Wellington and are at the Waverley Hotel. Mr. Swain is accompanied by his wife. Mr. J. Barr, chief librarian and director of the Art Gallery, and Professor W. A. Sewell, who expect to be in Australia at the time, were appointed bv the City Council last night as its delegates' to the' 24th meeting of the Art Galleries and Museums Association of Australia and New Zealand. The meeting is to be held at Canberra next January. Mr. Lan Blair, of Barah. estates, Bara-Chakia. India, has received is commission in the Indian Army Res<?rv6 and will b(? appointed to a cavalry regiment. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Blair, of Gisborne, and is to be joined soon by his sister, Aliss Jocelvn Blair, who leaves by the Narbada from Dunedin for Calcutta en route to Bara-Chakia. Mr. W. G. Sherratt. chairman of the Cook County Council,' has been appointed to represeht the county on the Gisborne Harbour Board to fill the vacancv caused by the death of Mr.. John Tombleson. Mr. Sherratt is a former member of the Harbour Board, of which he was once chairman. Mr. J E. Benson was appointed by the council to fill the late Mr. Tombleson a place on the Power Board.