MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12355, 27 January 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

VICE-REGAL The Governor-Genera], Sir Charlet Fergusson, will remain in Auckland until the beginning of February, when ho will vist Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty. Captain J. S. M. Ritchie, commander of the Diomede, has been appointed honorary aide-de-camp to the Governor-General. MINISTERIAL The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister for Labour, Marino and Mines, i» visiting the North Auckland district. He will return to Wellington cn Thursday. Mr D. Jones. M.P., arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the South. The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhode* arrived from the South yesterday morning. The Hon. F. J. Rolleston (Minister for Justice and Defer ce) will return from the South Island to-day. Dr R. J. Tillyard, Chief of the Cawthron Institute, is visiting Dunedin. Mr P. J. O’Regan (Wellington) ha* returned from a visit to Christchurch. The Hon. Colonel Smith, M.L.0., arrived in Wellington this morning by the Maori from Lyttelton. Sir Robert and Lady Stout were among the passengers by yesterday morning’s ferry boat from the South. His Honour Mr Justice Adams, ha* returned to Christchurch from Dunedin, where he has been on vacation. Mr C. M. Croft, -Canadian Commissioner at the Dunedin Exhibition, arrived from the Soath yesterday morning en route to Auckland. Mr M. Cohen, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, was absents from the meeting of the board last night owing to indisposition. Mr J. H. O. Bone, Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, accompanied by Mr H. J. Mills, secretary of the company in London, left for Dunedin last night. Mr J. G. McGowan was given leave of absence from the February meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board as be is going away far a holiday trip to the South Island. The Mayor (Mr O. J. B. Norwood) leaves for the south on Saturday for the purpose of attending the Municipal Associations’ Conference, which open* at Dunedin on the following Thursday. Mr F. S. Ballin who has been on * motor tour of the Dominion, accompanied by Mr E. F. Burne, has arrived back in Auckland. The traveller* had a splendid time. Included in the trip was a visit to the Dunedin Exhibition, of which they speak highly. Mr W. E. D. Bishop Christchurch, president of the New Zealand Swimming Association, was met by swimmers. yesterday m Napier and presented with an address signed by every New Zealand swimming centre in congratulation of his attaining his twenty-fifth year as a member of the association. Eulogistic speeches were made by delegates from all over New Zealand.—Press Association.

Mr H. H. Sterling, who has been a member of the New Zealand Railways Beard since it / was first constituted, retires from that position on Saturday next, to take up the important position of general manager of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, with headquarters at Hamilton. Whilst in the railway service Mr Sterling qualified as a solicitor in 1913 and as a barrister in 1917. Mr T. R. Hodder, of Palmerston North, has been advised by cable of the death in London of his brother, Mr Reginald Hodder. The deceased gentleman was bom in the Dominion. While still a young man he went Home to ' expo it his ability as an author, an object in which he was largely successful, several of hi* novels attaining a wide measure of popularity. A story with a New Zealand setting, “A Daughter of the Dawn,” is one of the best-known of the late Sir Hodder’* works. Mr H. A. Goudie, who retires from the State Forest Service on March 31s* to take over the management of the New Zealand Redwood Forests, Ltd., is leaving Rotorua for a final advisory tour of the Dominion in the interest of the State Service this week. Mr Goudie has spent twenty-five years in the forest service, during which period 55,000 acres have been afforested and 120 million trees raised from the seed under his direction. Mr W. T. Morrison has been transferred from Christchurch to succeed Mr Goudie a* conservator of forests. Following the annua! retreat of the Roman Catholic clergy at Palmerston North, the following transfers have been notified: —Father Doolaghty, of Palmerston North, goes to Taihape as parish priest, and will be replaced by Father Masterton, of Newtown; -Father Lynch, of Palmerston North, goes to Levin to take the place of Father Fitzgibbon, who will go on a holiday trip to England; Father Harnett, previously stationed at Palmerston North, has been transferred to Feilding; and Father Cahill, who has been stationed at the latter town, goes to Stratford as parish priest, taking the place of Father Maples, who died recently. The appointments will take effect from the first week in February.