PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 3

PERSONAL

Mr. N. R. 0. Wilson, the tennis player, is leaving Wellington next week to enter business at Hastings.—P.A. Mr. L. C. Collett, of the telegraph branch of the Hastings Post Office, has been appointed supervisor at Napier.

The Rev. S. B. R. Canbin, curate of St. Luke’s parish, Rotorua, has been transferred to Ormondville. His place is being taken by the Rev. E. A. McCutcheon. After more than 42 years in the wool business, using Christchurch as his headquarters, Mr. H. T. Milnes, president of the New Zealand Wool Buyers’ Association, is retiring both from business and the presidency. In the course of a round trip for health reasons, the Earl of Hardwicke arrived at Wellington by the Rangitanc. Charles Alexander Yoike, eighth Earl of Hardwicke, was born tu 18(19. lie succeeded to the title in 1909.

Mr. L. Cr. Bowen, late membership secretary to the Wellington Y.M.C.A., who has been for the last 10 years in the United States, will return to New Zealand on December 11, and, with his wife, will tour New Zealand, giving lectures upon different phases of American life.

Mr. J. A. Campbell, director of the horticultural division of the Department of Agriculture, is to leave Wellington for the United States by the Makura on Tuesday next, with the object of making inquiries on matters affecting his department and the fruitgrowers of this country.

Mr A. S. (Mick) Buckland, who has been with the Gisborne branch of Messrs. Dalge'ty and Company, Limited, for the 'past 11 years, has been transferred to the company’s Hamilton branch, where he will act as stock agent and assistant auctioneer. Mr Buckland leaves Gisborne on Tuesday to take over his new duties.

Guests at the Masonic Hotel during the past week include Mrs. Atkinson (Otero hanga), Miss Lanchlaud (Wanganui), and Messrs. R. C. Millie, P, Lyster, A. V. Fielder, H. Farrell, L. McLuggcnt, H. Goodwin and A. Hall (Wellington), J. A. Penman, J. E. Best, W. Cotes, L. .VlcMaster, H. Nicholas, R. Tremain, E. Wilkinson and H. Hansen (Auckland), G. L. Gledhill and J. A. East (Christchurch), P. Graham, and D. Stirling (Wanganui), C. Sanders (Tauranga), W. s. Goosmnu (Waited), and W. Hawthorne (Trentham).

The Hon. Alexander Shaw, chairman and managing-director of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company, Limited, is expected to reach Fremantle from London on January Hi. After a tour through tho various Australian States he will return to England by way of New Zealand. This will be the first occasion on which a chairman of the P. and O. Company has visited the Dominion. The visit of the Hon. Alexander Shaw is of particular interest, as the P. and 0. Company controls the Union Steam Ship Company, Limited, the Federal Steam Navigation Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited. To supply the pulpit at the Baptist Tabernacle at Auckland for the next six months, Dr. W. Graham Scroggie, a noted minister of Edinburgh, arrived at Wellington on the Rangitane from Loudon. ' Ho was accompanied by Mrs. Scroggie. In an interview, Dr. Scroggie said his ministry in Auckland would begin next Sunday, finishing at the end of May. After that, so far as ho could tell, lie would go to Australia for the winter, continuing his work in tho main cities there, and returning to New Zealand at about, this time next year. Later he would return to England anil then set out on evangelical visits to South Africa, Canada, India, China and Japan. “God willing,’’ he concluded, “I will take the next 10 years in going over the world fulfilling my programme.”