PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11663, 30 October 1923, Page 3

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL The Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister fo? Public Works anti Railways and Post-master-General) left Wellington last night for a tour of inspection of the South Island. He expects to be back ulout the 15th or 17th eft' November. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister for Mines, Marine, and Labour) is due back in Wellington from the South Island io•nor row.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, M.L.C., is visitthe South Island.

Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., has been, visiting the Waikato.

Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, who ha* been indisposed, sat with the Full Court yesterday.

Mr Justice Hardman will pass through Wellington to-morrow on his way back tc Auckland from Christchurch.

Mr W. Scott and Mr H. Hunter, of the Arbitration Court, are in Christchurch, having returned there from Dunedin.

Mr Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association, is at present in Wellington.

Mr D. Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, is in the South Island.

Mr H. W. Uru, M.P. for Southern Maori, is in Wellington.

Judge Gilfedder, of the Native Land Court, is in Wellington.

Dr J. Stevenson, who has been on a trip to England and America, has returned to Christchurch.

Mr H. F. Ault. 8.A.. has been appointed senior assistant librarian for 1924 of the Canterbury College Library.

A Press Association cable from Sydney announces the death of Mr W. F. Barbett, a noted sporting journalist.

Mr A. T. Markman. Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, has re* turned to Wellington from the South.

Dr T. H. A. Valintine will visit Grey* mouth at the end of the month, and will discuss with the Grey Hospital Board th< question of the Old People’s Home.

Professor C. F. Salmond, Professor of Mental and Moral Science at Canterbury College, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Christchurch.

The Hon. H. F. Wigram and Mrs Wig< ram, of Christchurch, have' returned New Zealand. Mr and Mrs WigT&m hav« been on a visit to England.

Mr John Gordon, of Hamilton, who has been appointed one of the four Government assessors on the newly set up Valuation Board, leaves for W ellington early this week to assume his duties.

The Hon. Sir Francis Bell, the ActingPrime Minister, was unanimously re* elected president of the Wellington. Amateur Rowing Association last night, ? position he has occupied for some time.

Mr F. H. Brodrick (Wellington), Mr G. H. Birch (Auckland), Mr L. D. Paterson (Wellington), Mr B. O'Connor (Wellington), and Mr C. H. Rhimes (Wanganui) are among the visitors to Dunedin. 1

Mr Justice Frazer and Mr J. H. Gilmour (Registrar of the Arbitration Court) have returned to Wellington from Dunedin His Honour will leave for Christchurch towards the end of this week, where sittings will be held next week.

My G. W. B. Hughes., general secretary to the Y.M.C.A., left by the Anekland express yesterday to visit the industrial centres in the extreme north. Mr Hughes returns in about ten days time

Mr F. B. Smith, agricultural adviser to the British Overseas Settlement Delegation, has returned to Wellington from the South Island, where he has been making a rural 6Urvey. He will le&vf by the Tahiti for San Francisco to-day, en route for England.

Mr J. H. C. Bond. Dominion supeorin* tendent for the New Zealand Shipping Company; Mr J. Findlav. New Zealand superintendent for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company; and Captain J. B. Rainey, joint Dominion manager for'tht Commonwealth and Dominion Line, have been on a short visit to Dunedin.

Messrs Claud Motion, G Buchanan; R M. Somerville, and A. J. Sinclair, reprq senting the New Zealand Co-operativ( Dairy Company, and Mr Mervyn Wells, representing the Cambridge Co-operativ< Dairy Company, will arrive in Wellington this afternoon to attend a meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Producers’ Coum cil.

The Eastbourne War Memorial Commit* tee have elected the following Mr T. M. Wilford. M.P., patron; vio> president, Mr F. H. Mather (Mayor), chairman, Mr E. A. Dawson; secretary* treasurer, Mr H. M. Jones; executive, Mrs Mather, Messrs E. King, M.A., C, Bowden, J. Meo, J. C. E. Turner, J. W, Keenan, H. Downs, E. Mareden; cere Rev. O. M. Stent, Rev. Gibson Smith, and Father Segrief.

Mr W. J. McCullough, manager Wereroa Central Development Farm, has resigned owing to ill-nealth, and has transferred to fields’ division of the Agricultura 1 Department. He will succeed M» F. W. Greenwood as agricultural instructor, Wellington district, which is to be enlarged, and will extend from Wellington to Te Ante, Feilding, and Foxton, embracing Wairarapa, Manawatu, and Rangitikei districts.

Messrs E. W. Bennett. M.Sc., and P. T. Cox, 8.A., have been nominated by the Profossortel Board of Canterbury College as candidates for the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship. The scholarship is of the value of £250 a year, and the successful student* must devote themselves to scientific research. The scholarship is tenable for two years, and renewable for * further year in exceptional cases.

The opportunity was taken at the farewell function to Mr F. B. Smith, Agriculture Advisor to the Overseas Settlement Delegation, to say good-bye also to Mr R. S. Galbraith, who has been Commissioner of Crown Lands in Southland for some time poet, and who is about to assume a similar position at ’Dunedin. A formal welcome was also extended to Mr Galbraith’s successor, Mr K. M. Graham. Appreciative icferences to Mr Galbraith’s excellent work were made, and regret was expressed at his departure.

Dr Charles E. Weatherburn. M.A, (Cambridge), D.Sc. (Sydney!, fia* been np. pointed Professor of Mathematics at Can. terburv University College, in succession to Professor J. P. Oabbatt (says a Press Association message from Chritchurch). Dr Weatherburn, who is at- present Lecturer in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Ormond and Trinity College*, University of Melbourne, has had academic experience .extending to three universities —Sydney. Cambridge, and Melbourne He is the .author of a published work entitled. "A Treatise on the Victor Analysis, and its use in Applied Math©* mntice.”

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