PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19312, 30 April 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

Constable R. Julian left- Gisborne this morning to relieve Constable Beasley at Opotiki. Or. G. Booberg, director of the Agricultural Department of the Sugar Experimental Station. Java, is visiting New Zealand,

Mr. J. A. Urqithart, who recently retired from the directorate of Hopkins. Dunn and Company, shipping agents and merchants in Shanghai, is visiting Wellington.

The Ht. Rev. J. A. Kempthorne, Bisnop oi Lichfield, England, the see to which Bishop Selvvyn went when he left New Zealand, will visit tiie Dominion in August and September.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that a Gazette notice issued last night announced that Sir Donald MeGavin has been appointed a member of the Medical Council under the Medical Practitioners' Act.

An engagement is announced between John Stewart, youngest son of the late Air. and .Mis. R. S. Oarer, Wairoa, and Thelnm Emily, youngest daughtci of Mr. and Mrs. T. Ltting, "Teasdale," Foluga Bay.

Mr. .Arthur Geddes, lnvercargill, a lormer president of the New Zealand Kugby Union, and a former All Black selector, who recently underwent an operation, is spending a holiday in Auckland.

Mr. .1. S. Neill, British Consul and Agent in Tonga, arrived in Auckland Ivy the .Matua [rum Suva, lie is on his »vay to I'itcairn Island on oilicial business, and will join the Ituahino at Wei lington lies'., week.

Mr. .1. H. Williams, president of the New Zealand Trotting Association, is at present in St. George's Hospital, Chrislehuri'h, where he underwent a minor operation, lie is now reported to lie making good progress.

Mr. 1.. 0. Hooker, Hawera, is to retire shortly from the position of president of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand. The presidentelect is Mr. 11. K. Douglas, Wellington.

Passengers by East Coast Airways' planes between Gisbomo and Napier yesterday included Lady Ngata; Misses, M. Roach, R. Tohou, and B. Griffith; Sir Apirana Ngata; Messrs. It. Attwood, M. K. Jackson. J. McLoughlin, P. McLoughlin, C. G. Ancell, R. Moore, I. J. Quiglev, C. Hansen, J. Ellis, and C. Powell.