PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11649, 13 October 1923, Page 3

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL The Hon. W. Nosworthy (Minister flow Agriculture) is expected back in Welling* ton from the South Island on Tuesday morning next. The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister for Education and Justice) leaves Wellington for the South Island to-night. On Monday, the Minister meets a number of deputations in Christchurch, and he then goes to Oxford in connection with the proposal to establish a consolidated school there. On Tuesday he leave® Christchurch in the morning for Temuka. and visits also Pleasant Point, Albury, and Fairlie. The Mackenzie County Council will entertain him to dinner at Fairlie, and the Minister will give an address there cm consolidation. Next day he is to visit Timaru and inspect the boys' and girls' high schools there, leaving in the afternoon for the Waitaki district. On Thursday he goes to Balclutha, staying there the night and visiting the Balclutha High School the following day. He then proceeds to Invercargill, where he will visit the Borstal Institution and lay the foundationstone of the Invercargill High School. On Monday, the 22nd instant, the Minister leaves Invercargill for Dunedin, where he may spend a day or two, afterwards visiting Oamaru and returning to Wellington about the end of the week. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie (Minister for Lands) leaves Auckland for Wellington on Tuesday next. . ■ The Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister for Publio Works and Railways) returns to Wellington by the Main Trunk Express to-day from his visit of inspection to the Taranaki district. Mr Justice Frazer will arrive fn Wellington this evening from Gisborne. Mr J. U Turnbull returned jester* day from a trip to the South Sea Islands. Mr G. G. Watson, of Wellington, left Auckland yesterday en route to Suva os a holiday trip in the Pacific. Mr O. T. J.' Alpers has returned to Christchurch from Wellington, where he attended a sitting of the Foil Court. Mr Walter E. Leadley, of Christchurch, has been appointed a member of the National War Funds Council. Lieutenant-Colonel M. M. Gardner, D. 5.0., Director of Artillery, of Wellington, is at Auckland. Messrs S. A. Longuet, W. S. Brice, 0 M. Campbell, and H. Hermann, of Wellington, are at. 1 Auckland- . - Sir George Elliot/ chairman tors of the Bank of New Zealand, haa been visiting Wellington. A visitor to Palmerston North is Mr Albert Mallineon, examiner for the Trinity College of Music, London. Mr A. E. Twohy, of Los Angeles, sag Mr G. Weber, of Chihuahua, Mexico, are visiting New Zealand. Messrs A. C. Hammond, J. Turnbull, and W.. Duthie, of Wellington, have been visiting Auckland. The Health Department has approved the appointment of Mr A. J. Phillips as managing secretary to the Palmerston North Hospital Board. Advice has been received that Mr T. M Wilford. M.P., Leader of the Opposition, arrived at Hongkong on Thursday, Mr F. P. .Welch, of Masterton, who has been on a visit to the South Island, passed through Wellington yesterday on his return to the Wairarapa. Messrs W. Goodfellow and G. Bqyes, of Hamilton, have left for Australia, where they intend spending a month's holiday. The death is announced from Christohuroh of Mrs Selig, wife of Mr Phineas gelig, formerly manager of the Christchurch “Press' Company, after'a few weeks' illness.

Mr T. Bates, who visited Sydney to oonsult with Mr White, the theatre architect, regarding the proposed New Plymouth Opera House, has returned to New Plymouth.

The Rev. J. McC&w has returned to the Lower Hutt from the Wairarapa, where he has been visiting friends. Some years ago Mr HcCaw was resident minister at Martinborough.

The annual report of the Maranu! Surf and Life Saving Club records with regret the death of Mr G. Blackburn, for many years a keen worker for—th* club and life-saving.

Mr H. H. Ostler, of Auckland, formerly of Wellington, after having spent some months in England, left for Central Africa early in September, on a big game hunt.

Mr J. Hislop, Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, and Mr H D. Thomson, tJnder-Secretary of. the Department of Immigration, nave re* turned to Wellington from the Aortft.

Lieutenant Bv-J> Shadlerw, bandmaster of the First Battalion Band, who—has been an inmate of Wellington Hosptial for some time, is now reported to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

Mr C. E. Matthews (Under-Secretary of Justice and Controller-General of Prisons) has gone to_ Christchurch, and will afterwards proceed to Dunedin and Invercargill on Prisons and Justice Departmental business.

Mr G. W. Hutchison, secretary of-the vAnoklaud Automobile. Association,* proposes to leave at tjie end of the year os au extended tour of Great Britain. At the meeting of the association Mr Hutchison was granted the necessary leave of absence.

Appreciation is expressed in the annual report of the Maranui Surf and Life Saving Club of the practical support and sympathy given by the president, Mr J. A. Tripe, to Mr S. Hammond for his time and trouble in effecting alteration* to the club house, and to Mg Bin ns, the beach custodian, for his courtesy end help on many occasions.

The Rev. J. J. North, who was for many years a Wellington minister, returned last month from a world tour. He spoke last night at the Vivian street Church, on the religious situation ,of the world as he sees it, making special* reference to Roman Catholicism and AngloCatholicism in Britain, and indicating a way out of the impasse. Mr F. B. Smith (agricultural expert to the British Overseas Settlement Delegation), who has already toured th« Auckland, North Auckland, and East Coast districts of the North . Island, leaves by Jo-day's boat >or Nelson, where he* will commence his tour of the South Island: After he has vUited the various agricultural districts in the South Island, he will then return to Auckland, ria the M&nawatu - and Taranaki districts, leaving from Auckland a few weeks hence for the Old Country.