PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23497, 2 May 1938, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr R. T. Meredith, president of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, left Invercargill by the express last evening for Wellington. Mr Meredith will attend a meeting of the. council of the New Zealand Rugby Union on Tuesday and will preside at the annual meeting of delegates on Wednesday.

The Hon. Mr Justice Kennedy, a member of the Court of Appeal, which has been sitting in Wellington for some weeks, left in the steamer express for the south on Friday. He is to preside over the Dunedin Supreme Court session which begins today. Mr L. R. Lopdell, president of the Southland Rugby Union, and Mr A. _J. Geddes, a member of the union, will leave for Wellington by the express tomorrow morning to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union on Wednesday.

Mr Keith Reed returned to Dunedin by the express last evening.

Mr D. Harris left for Wellington by the express last evening to attend a meeting of th< Conciliation Council. Dr W. J. Wiley, of the Australian Council of Scientific Research, who has been attached to the staff of the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute for some time under a reciprocal arrangement, left for Australia last week to attend two important conferences. He is to return to New Zealand in June. Mr John Wood, chief engineer of the Public Works Department, and chairman of the Main Highways Board, left Auckland last week by the Wanganella. He is to be absent from New Zealand for about two months, and is to ipake a study of irrigation works, highway systems and the construction of' aerodromes in New South Wales and Victoria. He is accompanied by Mrs Wood.