PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL

~ Mr. D. ~W. Coleman,: M.P., left this morning for Napier to attend the. annual conference of the Municipal Association. Passengers by the East Coast Airways' plane yesterday on the GisborneNapier flights were: Miss Ashton; Messrs. F; J. Rowley. G. E. Villars, H. Ngata. J. W. Rothwell, G. K. Crawshaw, A. V. Jury, T. Geary, E. Wallace, L. Cooper, and K. R. Waite.

Mr. J. E. Rowland, of the- Opotiki staff of the Bank of "New Zealand, has received notice of his transfer to jhe Taiiranga branch. Mr. A. W. Rofwie, of Tauranga, will fill the vacancy in the Opotiki branch caused by Mr. Rowland's departure.

The eminent religions writer, lecturer and authority on India, the Rev. C. F. Andrews, is expected to arrive at Auckland by the Tamaroa from London on April 22. Mr. Andrews will spend a month in New Zealand, lecturing on behalf of the World Jjjtudent Christian Federation, and wfli then go to Fiji for six weeks to inquire into important matters affecting the Indian community there. Later he will lecture in Australia.

Having been stationed in Australia during the past two years and now on his return to England, Squadron-Leader G. G. Banting, of the Royal Air Force, accompanied by his wife, is at present paying a hurried visit to New Zealand. They were passengers in the Monowai which arrived at Wellington on Monday from Sydney. Squadron-Leader Banting has been on exchange in the service of the Royal Australian Air Force for two years, and before returning to England, will spend about a fortnight in the Dominion sightseeing.

»Guests at the Masonic Hotel so far this week include Mr. and Mrs: Hogan, Mrs. Corry, Messrs C. Huggett, Wfl Ross, W. L. Moore, L. Thompson, H'. P. Winn, E. J. Penrose, T. Fahey and E. Saker, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. Seabrook, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. 0. Hawken, Miss Hawken. Mokoia; Mr. Rutherford, Stratford; Mr. and Mrs. Orierre, Miss Harris, Messrs. E. Johnston, B. Ryan, G. Montgomery, J. B. Grange, F. Kain, F. Wiggins, and H. V. Rowntree, Wellington; Messrs J. Barnett and W. Midgley, Christchurch; Mrs. G. Baxter, Colomloo; Mr. G. Fairchild, Palmerston North; Mr. and Mrs. H. Farr, Dunedin; Mr. F. A. Hull, Hastings; Mrs. Rose, and Miss Briani, England; Mr. and Mrs. Myles, Sydney; Mrs. A die, Scotland; Messrs R. Wade, and T. Anderson, Pahiatua; Misses Hill and Brady, Wairoa.

Having been offered an appointment as co-pilot with the Union Airways' fleet, Mr. E. A. Robinson, Napier manager for East Coast Airways, Limited, has resigned the latter post and will take over his new duties at the beginning of next week. To Mr. Robinson, the Gisborne district owes the inception of the airways company operating on regular schedules to-day between this town and Napier, he having sponsored the scheme at the outset, and the eventual flotation; of the company having been due in a large measure to the interest which he had succeeded in arousing in the project. Mr. Robinson's immediate concern is to secure adequate experience of passenger-service operation from the point of view of the working pilot, and his appointment with Union Airways should fui-nish him with ample opportunities for this type of experience. He is the possessor of a B license, and is a keen student of aviation in all its branches.