PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 57, 5 May 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs C. Lamplough, of Stratford, left by this morning's train for Wellington.

Mr F. Head, of Stratford, left by ting morning's train for Wanganui, where he will reside.

Mr J. D. Murray, of Stratford, left for Auckland by this morning's mail train.

Nurse I. M. Smart, of Raetihi, is staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs G. Smart, of Stratford, while on a. montli's holiday.

New Zealanders who have just been elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute include; Mr A. G. Davis (Auckland), Mr A. T Markman (Wellington), and Mr T. C. T.i>t (New Plymouth).

1 Mr K. A. Girling, of Blackball,, has been appointed electrical engineer to the Kaikoura County ' Council ,in place of Mr S. Preston, who has resigned to take up ;, position at Lake Coleridge 1 under the Public Works Department.

The Most Rev. C. Julius, IVD., Archbishop and Primate of N«w Zealand, celebrated the 34th anniversary of his consecration as 2nd Pi«hop of Christchnrch on Thursday. 7Te arrived in Christchurch from Pallarat, Victoria, and the cereiumy took place lit the Christchnrch Cothedral on May Ist, 1890. ,; " Mr U. W. Dalton, formerly British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, lias been appointed Trad© Commissioner for Australia. The Australian Trade Commissioner, il is understood, will exchange places >vith Mr Dalton at Montreal, Canada. These two posts are of equal importance

I A New York cable states that there is a movement amon» American men of letters, designed to secure the designation of Thomas Hardy for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1924. American members of the Pen Club, an international organisation of playwrights, poets and novelists, will request the club to ask the Swedish committee to bestow the honour of Dean of English Letters Tt is understood that Mr John Galsworthy, who heads the English branch, and M. Anatole France, ; heading the French branch, will sup--1 port the step. The Pen Club's international convention meets here on 'May 13.