PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 14

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. D. J. Cummings, Commissioner of Police, is visiting Putaruru. Mr. W. Clark, of Gisborne, accom-. panied by Mrs. Clark, is visiting AuclU land, and is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. H. B. G. Walker, branch ac-. countant of tho Australian Mutual! Provident Society, Wellington, is at, the Grand Hotel. Mr. W. Cecil Prime, employers'' representative on the Court of Arbitra-. tion, left Auckland by the limited express last night. Mr. J. Spence, Auditor-General for New South Wales, who has been visit, ing the Dominion, will return to Sydney by tho Awatca to-day. Commander A. B. Fanshawe, second naval member of the New Zealand Naval Board, returned to Wellington by tho limited express last night. Mr. Justice Blair left Hamilton last evening for Wellington, where he will attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal. Ho will return to Hamilton on Tuesday. Mr. F. Picot, Director of Internal Marketing, arrived from Wellington by train yesterday morning. He will leave with Mrs. Picot by the Awatea to-day for a brief holiday in Sydney. Rear-Admiral W. B. Mackenzie, R.N. (Retired), is a passenger for Auckland by tho Orient liner Orion, which left England on October 8. He is accompanied by Mrs. Mackenzie. Mr. C. H. Hudson, manager in Wellington of the Temperance and General Life Insurance Society, will leave for Sydney by the Awatea today. Ho will be accompanied by Mrs. Hudson. Mr. Hendry Luke, managing director of the Amalgamated Brick and Pipe Company, Limited, will leave by the Awatea to-day on a business visit to Sydney. Ho will be accompanied by Mr. A. J. Luke. Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Kemp has relinquished the appointment of assistant director of medical services, Army Headquarters, and has been transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Central Military District. Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Will, Major A. L. Noakes, Major M. Harris, Captain G. H. Leslie and Lieutenant G. B. Palmer left by the limited express last ' night for Trentham, where they will attend a course of instruction.

Mr. "W. Goodfcllovr, Mr. B. H. Mac-, keiizie and Air. W. Marshall, of the directorate of Amalgamated Dairies, Limited, will leave Auckland by the Awatea to-day in order to attend the annual meeting in Sydney of Empire Dairies, limited.

Commander C. B. Tinlev, who has been succeeded as naval officer in charge of the Devonport Naval Base by Captain C. M. Barnes, will leave by the Awatea to-day for Sydney on his return to England. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Tinley.

Sir Charles Marr, a member of the Australian Federal Parliament, and Messrs. S. .T. McGibbon and H. Landon Smith, directors of New Zealand Forest Products, Limited, arrived at Auckland by the Awatea from Sydney yesterday to attend a meeting of the company. Sir Charles and Air. McGibbon are at the Grand Hotel, and Mr. Smith is at Hotel C'argen.

The Bev. E. H. Hobday, lately minister of the Baptist Church, Denmark Place, London, arrived by the Awatea from Sydney yesterday on hfs way to Christchurch, where he will take temporary charge of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, pending the appointment of a successor to the Bev. L. A. North, who has vacated the charge in order to become general secretary of the New Zealand Baptist Union and A Missionary Society. Mr. David L. Nathan and Mr. F. A. Nathan, who have been on a tour of America and Europe, left, England by the Orion on October 8. They will spend two weeks at Colombo, and will then proceed to Sydney in the Orama. In Sydney they will be joined by Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Nathan, who left England on October 14 and who intend to spend a brief holidav in Java. It is expected that Mr. David L. Nathan, Air. F. A. Nathan and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Nathan will arrive in Auckland on December 12.