PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23228, 23 December 1938, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

Professor J. Cumming, of Dunedin, is visiting Auckland. Mr. C. R. Ford left by the afternoon express for Wellington yesterday. Mr. James Fletcher returned from Wellington yesterday by the limited express. Dr. D. Miller, chief entomologist at the Cawtliron Institute, is visitiiig Auckland. Sir James Steel-Maitland, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland, and is at the Hotel Cargen. Mr. Stronach Paterson travelled to Wellington by air yesterday after a brief visit to Auckland. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, Attorney., General and Minister of Justice, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Tho lit. Hon. J. G. Coates, who has been 011 a brief visit to Auckland, left yesterday for Matakohe, accompanied by Mrs. Coates. Professor W. Riddet, director of the Dairy Research Institute, Palmerston North, arrived in Auckland by express yesterday morning. Mr. E. N. G. Poulton, private secre. tary to tho Minister of Internal Affairs, tho Hon. W. E. Parry, returned to Wellington by the early express yesterday. Mr. J. S. Fleming, divisional clerk of the Dairy Division of the Departmerit of Agriculture, will retire at the end of this month after 37 years' service. Mr. J. D. Anderson, who has been manager at Wanganui for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, for the past 15 years, will retire on superannuation at the end of this month. He has been in the service of the company for nearly 40 years. Mr. H. M. Rush worth, formerly member of Parliament for Bay of Islands, who is a patient in a private hospital in Auckland following the amputation of a leg which was seriously injured in the Great" War, is making a good recovery. He was visited yesterday by the Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs.