PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. Mr. Justice Ostler will go to Napier for the Supreme Court session starting on October 26, after which he will attend the sessions beginning, at Gisborne on November 2.

. Mr. A. W. Hampton, Gisborne, is attending the twenty-fourth annual conference of the New Zealand Public Service Association, which opened in Wellington yesterday.

Mr. D. G. Beattie left to-day for Whakatane to attend a meeting of the Bay of Plenty-Poverty Bay Pig Council, for which he is organiser. He expects to remain in the Bay of Plenty for some weeks.

Passengers by East Coast Airways' planes yesterday between Gisborne and Napier included Mesdames H. Morris, R. Pearson and K. Stacey: Misses R. Dobson and L. Muir; Messrs D. W. Coleman, M.P., F. Foster, B. Adair, S. Fache, R. Thompson, McDonald, J. Hull and Elleson.

The Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board is represented at the annual conference of New Zealand power distribution authorities, now proceeding in Wellington, by Mr. F. R. Ball, chairman of the board. Messrs. R. P. Baigent, managing-secretary, and F. Vlatthewson, engineer, are also in Wellington, having attended respectively the power board secretaries and power board engineers' conferences.

The Rev. P. J. Wainwright, formerly of Gisborne, was nominated as moderator of the Wellington presbytery at a meeting of the ooay last night. His being the only nomination received, Mr. Wainwright will become moderator in the new year. The senior missionary of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church in India. Rev. T. E. Kiddle, has been nominated by the Wellington Presbytery «s the next moderator of the general assembly.

The new American Consul-General in New Zealand, Mr. Lowell C. Pinkerton, will arrive at Auckland on the Mariposa on October 29. Mr. Pinkerton comes to New Zealand to fill the appointment which became vacant when Mr. George A. Buckiin returned to the United States in May and which has been filled temporarily by Mr. George Bliss Lane. Mr. Pinkertou, who is accompanied by Mrs. Pinkerton, has been in the Department of State at Washington for the past four years, and prior to that was in London for some years. He is about 45 years of age.

Recent guests at the Masonic Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. M. Bourne, Wanganui; Messrs. J. R. Large, H. Claridge, B. Kiely, L. Sinclair, F. G. Pettit, J. Major, J. B. Hotchin and R. H. Parten, Wellington; Messrs. E. Pearce, E. Page, T. Long, G. Laycock, D. M. Rodgers, R. Crocombe, F. L. Gillespie, C. Wakefield, F. V. Windsor, J. Shannon, A. Donald, H. Moss and D. L. Connolly, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. Burrows, Christchurch; Mr. J. E. Boreham, Sydney; Mr. J. A. Grinter, Hamilton; Mr. W. J. Knights, Palmerston North; Miss Downey, Mr. C. A. Wright. Opotiki; Mr. and Mrs. R. Edwards, Messrs. J. Harrison and E. H. Smith, Napier; Mr. H. Cooper, Hastings.