PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 23829, 29 May 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Rt. Hon. M, J. Savage, Prime Minister, will leave Wellington for Christchurch tonight. The Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence, will return to Wellington from Auckland today. Mr N. S. Falla, chairman and managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., left Wellington by the Awatea on Friday for Sydney. He will proceed to London by Imperial Airways. Mr A. W. Jones has received advice of his admission as a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers, with the right to designation by the letters F.N.Z.I.V

Mr W. Young (Drummond) returned on Saturday from Wellington. Mr Athol E. Lawrence, second son of Mr and Mrs R. H. Lawrence, Lewis street, left Bluff on Saturday by the motor-vessel Port Alma for London, where he will begin a four years cadetship with the Port Line Ltd. Mr Richard Crooks, the American tenor, with his wife and son, left for Sydney by the Awatea on Friday evening.

Sir Mark Sheldon, of Sydney, is a passenger in the Mariposa, . which is due at Auckland today. He is making a visit to the United States and England.

Mr Raymond Leibensperger, chief geologist of the Vacuum Standard Oil Company, will leave by the Mariposa for the United States today. Recently he broke a journey from the Netherlands East Indies to America to inspect oil boring investigations in the Dominion.

Commander S. H. Paton, R.N., who returned to England in H.M.S. Achilles after three years’ service as executive officer of that ship, has joined the staff of H.M.S. Vernon, torpedo school at Portsmouth. Mr K. H. Howard, assistant manager for New Zealand of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Company, will leave Auckland today by the Mariposa for San Francisco, en route to England. Mr R. Crompton, K.C., and Mrs Crompton, of Suva, who have been visiting the Dominion, will leave Auckland today by the Mariposa on their return to Suva.

Mr J. Halligan, managing director of Gollin and Co., Pty, Ltd., sailed for Australia by the Awatea from Wellington on Friday evening.

Mr John Gallie, Wellington, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Wellington Trust, Loan and Investment Company, Ltd., in the place of Mr R. A. Holmes, who has retired.

Mr H. M. Patrick, deputy- chiet postmaster at Auckland, will vacate his postion today. He has been transferred to the head office of the department in Wellington. His successor as deputy - chief postmaster. Mr A. M. Rosie, has arrived in Auckland from Wellington. The Very Rev. Father James Hanrahan, parish priest of St. Joseph’s, Papanui, has been appointed parish priest of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Addington in succession to the Very Rev. Father J. P. O’Connor, who died recently. Till the annual diocesan appointments in February next, St. Joseph’s, Papanui, will be in charge of the Marist Fathers at St. Bede’s College.