PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr N. C. Pierce, secretary of the Auckland Horticultural .Society, has been appointed secretary of the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association. There w’ci'o 47 applicants. Mr J. Newman, Nelson, has left on a business trip to the United States on behalf of Messrs. Newman Bros., Limited, to inspect modern transport methods in America. News has been received that Mr C. W. Collins, eldest son of Mr and Mrs William €. Collins, Sumner, Christchurch, has gained a degree in library science at the University of Michigan, U.S.A.-

New Zealand friends of Dr. A. E. Porritt will be interested to hear, says a London correspondent, writing on June 29, that the has been successful in obtaining the degree of M.Ch. In due course he will go to Oxford, evhbre the degree will be conferred. Professor L. d ’llautescrvo, professor of philology at McGill University, Montreal, arrived nt Auckland by the Niagara from Suvn. He has -been visiting Hawaii and Fiji to study native languages. He is proceeding to the Society Islands. Dr. R. J. Tillyard, of Canberra, entomologist to tho Commonwealth Government and formerly of the Cawfhron Institute, Nelson, was .a through passenger to Sydney by the Niagara, after attending the Pacific Science Congress in Vancouver.

'Mr \V. D. Ferguson, the representative of the Chrysler Motor Corporation, Detroit, in Australia and New Zealand, has arrived at Wellington from Sydney on a business visit to tho principal centres of tho Dominion. He will later proceed to the United States, returning about December. Mr E. Sydor, ex-purser of the Empress of Japan, was a through passenger to Tahiti by the Makura, .which arrived in Wellington on Monday from Sydney. Mr Sydor was attached to tho Canadian Pacific Steamship Company for 33 years; arid ho is now on a world tour.

Visitors to New Plymouth last week were Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fischer, Southern Rhodesia, who are touring New Zealand. Mr. Fischer owns the famous Coldstream ranch, of 34,000 acres, in Rhodesia. He and Mrs. Fischer visited Mr. G. H. Boll’s Jersey stud at Oakura and were greatly impressed with what they saw. Mr C. 11. Poole, formerly M.P. for Auckland West, is now at Lbjnita, United States, about 15 miles from Los Angeles. His wife contemplates a business trip to her native land in ithe near future. Their two sons favor a .maritime lifo and they have had experience on ocean liners. Mr Poole is in demand on the platform and flic assists the Rev. F. H. Ross—who toured New Zealand last year—in the work of Ms church at San Pedro.

Oaptain C. G. Matheson, the newlyappointed commodore of the Orient line of steamers, arrived in Melbourne last week as master of the R.M.S. Oronsay. As a midshipman on the barque Jupiter, he first visited Australia over 40 years ago. For the past. 30 years Captain Matheson has been in the service of the Orient Company. For sinking a German submarine during the war whilst in charge of a mystery ship, ho was awarded the p.S.O. With the retirement of Captain H. _G. Staunton from the service, Captain Matheson takes rank as senior commodore, and is permitted to fly the swallow-tailed flag at the yard arm. On this voyage out he was also notified of his appointment as a commodore of the Royal Naval Reserves.