PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11706, 19 December 1923, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL - The Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, returned to Auckland yesterday from Hawke’s Bay, accompanied by the Hon. Myrtle and the Hon. Prudence Jellicoe. At 3 p.m. Lord Jellicoe presented the prizes at the annual breaking-up ceremony of King’s College, and to-day he will attend the luncheon tendered by the Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association to the orphan children ,of Auckland. In the ai.ernoon a Government House cricket eleven will play King’s College at the college grounds, Middlemore. On Thursday afternoon the GovernorGeneral will be present at the wedding of Commander Stopford and Miss Townley, which will take place from Government House. In the evening he will attend the prize-giving ceremony of the Auckland Grammar School. MINISTERIAL The only Ministers of the Crown at present in Wellington are the Hons. J. G. Coates, G. J. Anderson, D. H. Guthrie, and Sir Maui Pomare. The Hons. Sir Francis Bell, Sir R. lleaton Rhodes, and W. Downie Stewart were at Waiho Gorge, in the South 16land, yesterday. The Hon. C. J. Parr is expected to return to Wellington from Sydney by the Ulimaroa. ihe Hons. W. Nosworthy and R. J. Bollard were at Wairoa, in the Gisborne district, yesterday. Sir Joseph Ward is at Christchurch. Mr D. C. Halley, of Wellington, is visiting Christchurch. Mr J. R. McKenzie leaves for England early in the New Year. Mr U. P. Hudson, M.P. for Motueka, has been visiting Hawke’s Bay. The Hon. Mr Justice Macgregor left Wellington yesterday for Wanganui. Sir Thomas Mackenzie is visiting his eon, Dr. Mackenzie, at Auckland. Mr A. H. Daniell and Mr H. M. Boddington, were in Wellington yesterday. Mr and Mrs P. S. McLean, of Napier, are at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr Stanley NatU6ch returned to Wellington yesterday from a visit to the Manawatu district. Messrs C. J McCarthy. J. Ramsay, and W. G. K. Wright, of Wellington, are at Auckland. Mr J. L. R. Bloomfield and Mr Trevor Bloomfield, of Auckland, have returned from a trip abroad. Mr A. Phillips, secretary of the New Zealand Forest Service, returned to Wellington from Dunedin yesterday. Mr Edmund Anscombe, F.N.Z.1.A., of Dunedin, passed through Wellington yesterday on his way north. Dr and Mrs Veitch, formerly of Norsewood, are returning from Samoa early in the New Year to reside permanently in New Zealand. Mr W. T. C. Airey, New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1920, is expected to arrive in Auckland by the Niagara on December 27th. The Hon. Mr Justice Frazer will arrive in Wellington to-day from Anck. land. The judge will spend the Christmas holidays at Heretaunga. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) leaves Wellington' this morning on a brief visit to Napier. He will return to Wellington on Friday. Mr J. Hislop, 0.8. E., Undersecretary for. Internal Affairs, was visiting the Wairarapa on official business during tho week-end. He has returned to Wellington. Mr W. H. Trevan is aoting-manager for Lever Bros. (N.Z.), Ltd., at Petonc, vie® Mr O. C. Hobb, who has been laid aside through indisposition for some weeks past. Mr H. O. Lane, secretary of the Canterbury Education Board since 1895, has decided to retire, having completed 31 years’ service in the employ of the board.—Press Association Professor Boyd-Wilson, chairman of the professorial board of Victoria University College, Wellington, will be present at tho smoke concert to Sir Walter Buchanan at" Carterton this evening.

Mr E. C. Cutten, S M., has been appointed chairman of the Licensing Committees for the districts of Auckland, Waitemata, and Parnell, vice Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M.

Sir John Findlay. K.C.. who hae been a constant visitor to the Hermitage at Mt. Cook for many years past, will again visit Mt. Cook during the ap; proaching vacation.

Mr W. A. Hawkins, Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, will spend part of the Christmas vacation in the South Island, visiting friends in the Temuka district.

Sir John Salmond was a passenger by the Main Trunk express yesterday for Palmerston North. In the morning His Honour presided at a Chambers sitting at the Supreme Court.

Lord' Leverhulme, who arrives in New Zealand on December 27th, will be the fuest of the Wellington Rotary Club on anuary 3rd. The club then goes into vacation until February 3rd.

Mr R. Couipland. of the Christchurch office of the Tourist Department, and a member of the East Christchurch Cricket Club, has received notice of his transfer to Melbourne.

Mr Peter Fraser, M.P., was present at the Rotary Club yesterday, when boys from tho Salvation Army Homo and the Presbyterian Orphanage were entertained Mr Fraser takes a great interest in boys' work.

Rotarian Denys Hoare, of Christchurch, who is to accompany Mr Alec Roberts, New- Zealand Commissioner to the British Empire to England, was the guest of the Wellington Rotary Club at luncheon yesterday.

Appointments to the Palmerston North Borough staff have been made as follow: Electrical inspeotor. Mr J. Baty; linesman, Mr B. T. Barlow, of Ashburton; gas mains foreman, Mr W. E. Barnett; gasworks mechanical engineer and foreman, Mr J. II Day.

A social gathering to Dr. J. W. McTluraith. inspector of schools, nnd Mrs Mo Ilwraith, who are leaving for England this month, was tendered bv the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Dr. McTlwraith leaves under tho inspectors’ exchange system.

Captain and Mrs C- M. Renshaw, who have been staying some time in New Zealand, and lately with Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp, in Wellington, will leave for England in the Port Denison for T ondon on Sunday next. Mrs Renshaw is a daughter of Sir Harold Beauchamp.

A motion of sympathy with. Mr It. Luke, of the city engineering in. the loss of his wife, was passed By the Wellington City Council last night, on the motion of the Mayor, seconded hj Councillor M. F. Luckie. Rotarian M. Myers is proceeding: to Auckland next week, and while -ther* will meet the new American Consul, who arrives in Auckland on December 29th, and extend Rotarian greetings to him on behalf of the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr George Chance, of Dunedin, has received cable advice that he has been awarded the Fellowship ’of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. The honour is held by only two other residents of New Zealand, one of whom is the Rev. H. O. Fenton, of Dunedin, who gained the award two years ago. Mount Cook district sergeants and constables met to bid farewell to Sergeant H. H. Butler, who has been transferred to take charge of the Wellington South Sub-District. Senior-Sergeant Cox spoke in terms of the deepest appreciation of Sergeant Butler’s work, and wished him success in his new position On behalf of tho Mount Cook staff ho presented Sergeant Butler with a leather suitcase. Mr Alexander Jobson, head office director of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, with his wife and son, are expected in Wellington on Saturday*“from Sydney. Mr Jcbson intends making an extensive tour of New Zealand on •business, chiefly connected with the society. Ho will leave a few day® after his arrival in Wellington for the South Island. During the var Mr Jobson was on active service, end he bad a distinguished military career in which he attained tbs rank of brigadier-general. \ Notice was given by Mr E. S. Tlvanc et the meeting* of the executive of the Royal Life-saving Society last night to tho effect that he would be resigning hie position os secretary as from January 10th, owing to business reasons. The chairman, Mr G. .Hill, said that in the short time during which Mr Evans had tremendous amount of work for life-eav-ing in the province, and it was'with deep regret that the executive learnt of his intended action.