PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL.

VICE-EEOAL. The Governor-General and Lady Blcdisloe entertained at an afternoon party at Government House (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington), nearly 1000 guests, consisting of Government and municipal employees and their wives. This is the first of a number of similar gatherings at Wellington which their Excellencies hope to be able to arrange during their stay in New Zealand. Ministerial. The Acting Prime Minister (Mr E. A. Ransom) was reported yesterday to have shown a notable improvement in health. It is expected (says our Wellington correspondent) that he will resume his official duties early next week. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr P. A. de la Perrelle) left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. •

The Hey. L. A. North was a passenger by ms res fe rday s ex P r ess for Christchurch. The Mayor (Mr R. S. Black) left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Unemployment Board,

Mr W. E. S. Knight (chairman of the Otago Hospital Board) left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Hospital Boards’ executive.

Mr S. J. Mallard, of Messrs H. L. lap ley and Co., was a passenger by yesterday's express for the north. Dr J . Maxwell Clarke, son of Mr John sfe Rpslyn, has been awarded the de sree by the London Univer-

His Honor, Mr Justice Kennedy, has changed his residence from Craighall EgImton road, to the Grand Hotel 8 Blu ° del i- a delegate to the Imperial Press Conference, returned to' Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday (states a Press Association telegram). J,.™ 8 Association telegram from Wellington states that Mr William Watson a director of the Bank of New Zealand, returned by the Maunganui from a trip to England. Major-general H J. P. Browne. C. 8., late ot the Indian Army, arrived at Wellington on Sunday from Home by the Kemuera on a pleasure trip. Dr Wade, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Northern Solomon Islands, is at present visiting Dunedin and is the guest of Bishoy Whyte. He- will leave for the nortli to-morrow morning. The Rev. J. S. Murray, late of St. Andrews, Gisborne, accompanied by Mrs Murray, left Invercargill on Monday morning en route for Queenstown, where i , e iV ducted on December 4 to the Presbyterian charge.