PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11684, 23 November 1923, Page 3

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL Sir Maui Pomare (Minister for PubMs Health) returned to Wellington last night from his trip to Waipukurau and Napier. The Hon W. Nosworthy (Minister for Agriculture and Tourist Resorts, and Acting-Minister for Lands) and the Hon. H, F. Bollard (Minister for Internal Affairs) leave Wellington on Monday next to open the Rata Dairy Company s new factory at Palmerston North. They will proceed the same evening to Auckland, where they will visit the Colonial Ammunition Company’s works. The two Ministers will afterwards visit Drury and Henderson, attend the Auckland A. and P. Show on Friday next, and afterward* visit Hamilton, the Thames, the Hauraki Plains, Rotorua, the Bay of Plenty, and the East Coast districts, including Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, and Gisborne. The Ministers, whose itinerary also embraces Lake Waikaremoana and Napier, are due back in Wellington on December 20th. Mr J. W. Collins, of Wellington, is at Auckland. Mr P. F. Sterling, of Sydney, is visiting the Dominion. Mr M. Myers, K.C., has returned from Auckland. Mr M. Akiyama, Japanese Consul at Sydney, is on a visit to New Zealand. Mr H. D. Yiekery, of. Wdllingtoq, is at Auckland. Mr W. H. George is leaving for the south this evening on a visit to Oamaru, Mr W. H. George is leaving for the south this evening on a personal visit to Oamaru. Dr H. M. Cowen, of Kent terrace, it suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia. Mr J. H. Richardson has been appointed a member of the Public Trust Office Investment Board. .Mr J. W. Brownlie--of the Whangarei office of the Public Works Department, has been transferred to Wellington. Messrs F. T. R. Johnson, Wellington, and F. O- V. Acheson, Wanganui, have been* appointed Justices of the Peace. Drs Gladys Montgomery and Graham D. Lindsey have been appointed honorary anaesthetists at the "Auckland Hospital. ' Lieutenant-Colonel PiUrington, of the Defence Department Headquarters Staff, has returned from an official visit to Auckland. Mr W. J. Ferkins attended the meeting of the New Zealand Olympio Council last evening as the delegate of the New Zealand Football Association. Drs. A. H. Kirker and R. P. S. Kalman have tendered their resignations from the position of resident medical officers at the Auckland Hospital. Commodore Alister Beal, Naval Adviser. and his 6taff and the officers of the Chatham were entertained to dinner by the Wellington Club. Dr H. M. Cowen, Kent terrace, is confined to his room, due to a severe attack of pneumonia. Hi- condition'is causing much anxiety to his friend*.' Messrs J. T. Martin and A. LeigU Hunt are at the conference of the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce, bein| held in Auckland this week. Mr Peter Henry McOoll, assistant in the General Assembly Library, has been promote.! to the position of senior assis - ant, the promotion to date from Angus ’ 31st, 1923. * Messrs ,G. W. Campbell (Morrinsyille) G. C. Jlallantyne and W. E. Griffith! (Auckland), and A. Murray (Wellington) have been issued licenses by the Surveyors' Board. Captain and Mrs Charles M. Renshaw, who are returning to England by the Port Denison, towards the end of next month, are at present staying “With Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp. Mr and Mrs A Gilbert Tomlinson, Messrs W 8. Homewood, R. H. Atewart, and H. Goodman, of Sydney, and Mr B. G Cole, of Brisbane, are touring the Dominion. Messrs John A. Baine, Wellington, and W. J. B. Dinwoodio, Ohaknne, have been appointed officers under the. Eisherie* Act for the Wellington and the Waimerino r cclimatisation districts, respectively. Mr J.. M. Aston, who ha* been appointed superintendent of. tejegqgph* at Auckland, in saoce66ion to Mr H. Keary, who retires on superannuation, will take up his new duties at the end of this month. ' A telegram has been received from the Auckland Amateur Athletic Association nominating Mr A. T. Davies, chairman of the council of the NJ9.A.A.A., and Mr S. S. Dean, as their delegate* to the New Zealand Association. One of Kimbol ton’s earliest settlers, Mr Joseph Pawelka, is dead, at the age of 83. He arrived in the district some 90 years ago. when there was practically nothing but standing bnsh, and experienced all the hardships of pioneering. A Press' Association message from Auckland states that at the Methodist District Synod it was announced that the Rev. T. G. Brooke, general secretary to the Home Missions, is retiring. He entered the ministry in 1879, taking up his present position in 1909. Mr M. J. Reardon, of Wellington, has been appointed by the Government aa one of the Information Officers at the British Empire Exhibition. 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