PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 14

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. Fletcher left by the limited express last night for Wellington. Mr. Harvey Turner left by the li®. ited express last night for Wellington. Mr. J. A. C. Allum left by the limited express last night for Wellington. Mr. Justice Blair has returned to Hamilton from Wellington for a fort-1 night. Mr. J. B. Donald was a passenger on the limited express last night for Well.' j'ngton. Mr. A. G. Osborne, M P., was a passenger on the limited express last night for Wellington. The Rov. Ernest Chitty is at present in a private hospital, where he ha« undergone a serious operation. Mr. E. C. Eamm, Consul-General for Germany in New Zealand, is visitin? Auckland and is at the Grand Hotel. The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, will visit Hamilton tomorrow in connection with the Royal Show. - Mr. G. Mills, chairman of the Auckland division of the National Party, and Mr. T. G. Wilkes, chief organiser, left for Wellington by the afternoon express yesterday. Mr. L. G. Wood, postmaster at PonBonbv, has been transferred to Whakatane" His successor at Ponsonby is Mr. G. It. Taylor, who has been acting as a relieving postmaster in the Auckland district. Mr. J. L. Greer, a member of the engineering staff of the Auckland Harbour Board, has resigned to take up an appointment at Singapore. Mr. Greer will leave Auckland about the middle of next month. Sir Carrick Robertson, representing the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and Professor C. E. Hercutf, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Otago University College, have been nominated as members of the council on staff appointments at tho Auckland Hospital. Canon E. H. Strong, warden of St. John's College, Auckland, who will relinquish that position at the end of this year, will fake charge of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin. during the whole of next year. He will relieve the present vicar. Dean G. C. Cruickshank, who will leave for England early in the New Year. Professor T. A. Hunter, vice-chan-cellor of the University of New Zealand. Mr. I. F. McKenzie. registrar, Professor B. E. Murphy, of Victoria College, Wellington. Professor A. H. Tocker, of Canterbury College, Christchurch. and Professor R. J. T. Bell, of Otago University, arrived by train yesterday to attend a meeting of the Academic Board. It is expected that the business of the board will be ncneluded on Friday.