PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11163, 20 March 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr A. n. Johns and Mr H. J. Ralph, of Wellington, arc visiting Auckland.

Mr J. Blair Mason, civil engineer, is spending a few days at Dunedin.

Mr R. B. Owen has been reappointed director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society.

Judge Rawson and Judge Jones are at present in Wanganui presiding over a sitting of the Native Appeal Court.

Colonel It. J. Collins, ox-Controller and Auditor-General, is on a visit to Auckland.

Mr W. G. McDonald, chairman of the Board of Trade, is at Auckland on departmental business.

Mr C. P. M. Butterworth, of Dunedin, left Auckland by the Ulimaroa for Sydney, en route for Japan.

Mr J. K. Lowe. Railways District Engineer at Invercargill, has been transferred to Warganui.

Mr T. Ritchie, of Chas. Begg and Co.'s head office at Dunedin, is on a business trip to Wellington.

Tho Hons. J. S. Membrey and W. H. Edgar were passengers aboard tbe Ulimaroa, which left Auckland for Sydney and Wellington.

Mr W. D- Dustin, of Wanganui, is a visitor to Auckland for the bakers’ exhibition.

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) arrived back in Wellington from the South Wand yesterday •morning.

Mr H. Hyland, of Hastings, and formerly of Auckland, who has been visiting England and France, returned to Auckland by the Ulimaroa.

Mr F. D. Field, of Wanganui, successfolly underwent an operation on Thursday morning, and is reported to be progrossing satisfactorily.

Mr R. H Simons, railway etationmaster at Dunedin, is spending a short period of leave at Christchurch and Islington. He is being relieved by Mr H. P. Stanaway.

The Rev. H. E. Bellhouse, who, sines his return from Auckland some days ago, has been confined with an attack of pneumonia, is reported to be progressing satisfactorily.

Mr M. O’Brien, of the Department of Industries and Commerce (Wellington), is at present in Auckland, representing tbe department at the bakers’ exhibition.

Mr: F. B. Withers, of Melbourne, representing ‘The Australasian Baker,’* is a judge at the bakers' exhibition, in Auckland. He leaves later to attend the conference at Dunedin.

Major-General Sir E. W. C. Chaytor, . G.O.C. New Zealand Forces, has accepted the Kaiapoi war memorial committee’s invitation to unveil the Kaiapoi war memorial on Anzac Day.

Mr J. Loch, late juvenile probation offioer at Napier, has been transferred to Dunedin in a similar capacity. Mr McCaxroU, who has been carrying on the work at Dunedin, will return to Invercargill.

Mr H. A 1 Ward, manager of the Wellington Municipal Milk Department, during his stay in New York, was made a member of tho International Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors ar.(l the Anerican Public Health Association.

Mr W. Vetori, late manager for Messrs Bead and Fenwick, Ltd., Wellington, w;as farewelled by the staff on Friday and presented with an address and a handsome dinner service. Mr Robertson made the presentation.

Mre Grainger Hargreaves, wife of the Rev. Grainger Hargreaves, Who has been representing the Wesleyan Methodist people of England at the Methodist cen tenaiy celebration in this country, is or a visit to Dunedin.

Mr Ellis, of Whitehead and Ellis, Palmerston North, has been elected vicepresident of the New Zealand Master Bakers’ Association. This is the first time such an honour has fallen to a country district.

Trig Honour Mr Justice Reed, who is at present oonducting the quarterly sittings of the Supreme CoUrt at Gisborne, will, on tbe completion of fhe session there, go on to Auckland to relieve. He is expected to arrive there about April 4th.

According to a Press Association message the Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister for Agriculture, arrived at Reefton at midday Saturday, received a deputation, was entertained at a luncheon, and. left in the afternoon for Marnia via Inangahua Valley, reaching Murchison last evening.

Mr S. Andrew, of Kaikoura, Is Under, etood to have decided to contest the Hurunui seat at the general election as a Government supporter. Mr Andrew is chairman of the Kaikoura County Council, and also the representative of the Kaikoura-Cheviot' district on the North Canterbury Hospital Board.

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