PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 5

PERSONAL

Air. John Farrell is managing the tour of the Grenadier Guards Band, which is to visit, Gisborne shortly. Recent arrivals at. Auckland included Messrs. S. D. Nathan and J. F. Jeune, Gisborne, end Mr. S. Thornton, Tolaga Bay.

After nearly 40 years’ service on the staff of the. Customs Department at, Auckland, Mr W. D. Grant, well known as boarding inspector for a long period, has retired.

Mr. J. 0. Coop, of Kaituna, an cxpresident of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, has returned to Canterbury after four months in Australia.

Afr J. R. Tempi in, 1 consulting engineer, of Christchurch, and Airs Templin have .returned after a visit to the United States.

Air John Fuller, Sydney, .passed through Auckland on Saturday on his way back io Sydney after a visit to the United States.

Brigadier-General E. P. Brookor, a retired English Army officer, arrived at Auckland by the Akaroa to spend a fishing holiday in New Zealand. Professor J. C. Sporrin-Johnson, formerly professor of biology, Auckland University College, has leased Blackrock Castle from the Cork Corporation for his private residence. This was once a lighthouse. Professor SperrihJohnson lias occupied the chair ot botany at the Cork University College since his return from New Zealand. Dr. Bernard Myers, C.M.G., a New Zealander who has been practising medicine in London for about 30 years, arrived in Auckland on Saturday on a brief holiday visit to the Dominion. Dr. Myers,-wlio is a brother to the late Sir Arthur Myers, is a consulting physician in London and specialises in diseases of children. Ho is consulting physician in London to the New Zealand Government, and during the war was AssistantDirector and later Director of Medical Services in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In 1836 Sir Thomas Wilford anticipates paying another visit, to New Zealand as a member o! the British delegation to the conference of the. Federated Cliarn hers of Commerce of the British Empire, which conference is to he belli in the Dominion. He is deputy-chairman of the English Association, which is the eovernitig i ndy of the chambers of the Empire, and lie said that there would be a strong delegation from Great Britain and other parts of the Rmpite. It, was possible that the president. Lord Elibank, would make the trip.

New Zealand vis shortly to have a visit from Mr 0. T. Wedgwood, of Ihe pottery firm, who is going out partly for business and very much for pleasure, for the trip will Die a honeymoon tour, writes a London correspondent. New Zealand interest attaches to Mr Wedgwood’s fiancee, because she is a great-granddaughter of Sir William Hobson, first Governor of the Dominion. Her father is Dr. A. B. Rondel, who retired from practice a good manv years ago, and who lives at Postbridge, on Dartmoor. Her uncle, Mr James R. Rendel, sent out to Lord Bledisloe some valuable relies of the early days having association with Waitangi. Dr. Rendel and Mr J. R. Rendel were the sons of Mr Meadows Rendel, and grandsons of Sir W. and Lady Hobson.

Mr W. Ayson, th? oldest man in the Waikaka Valley,. Gore, recently celebrated his ninety-fourth year. Mr Arson is still very active.

The, lion. Allies PlriHimore, son of Lord Phillimorc, arrived at Auckland at . Auckland bv the Akaroa. Air Phillimore will spend , six months farming in the King-Country.

'Dr. P. F. AlcEvedy, Wellington, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, arrived at Auckland by the Akaroa after a holiday visit to England.

Mi; 0. J. . Ji. Norwood, managing director p£ jioiiiiiiioti Motors, Limited, and a former Aftiyor of Wellington, has returned after an extended 'business trip abroad.

Airs. John Lynch, , sen., and her daughter, .Miss Kitty Lynch, of Knight's road, Lower Hutt, were the guests of Air. and Mrs. E, A. Collett, Gisborne, over the New Year. They have now returned home.

Professor W. AtacCallum, a former New Zealander who is now professor of pathology at the University of Alolbourne, has arrived at Auckland. He is accompanied by Mrs. AlacCallum, ,nnd they will spend a short holiday in New Zealand before reluming to Australia after an extended trip abroad.

'Air D. G. Davidson, retired general manager of the Anglo-South American Bank, London, accompanied by his wife and his daughter, Miss 11. Lindsay Davidson, are at present visiting tlie South Island. Air Davidson is known to many in New Zealand, as he was engaged in banking in this country for 18 years.

An interesting figure at the Hokitika races last week was Mr W. Smith, who, though in his eighty-seventh year, is still hale and hearty and possessed of the keenest of faculties. Air Smith had the experience of being a rider in one of the events at the first race meeting held in Hokitika in 1865, when the course was down by the Hokitika River.