PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18286, 8 June 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL.

A visit to New Zealand will be made this year by Professor Mannhardt, of Germany, for the purpose of studying New Zealand educational conditions. Mr J. R. Sneddon has returned from Christchurch, where he attended the Conciliation Council as an assessor in the dispute between the Flourmillers’ Federation and the Flourmillers’ Association. , with a view to attracting more American tourists to New Zealand, the Government has appointed Mr J. L. Wheeler, managing-director of the travel firm of Pacific Tours, Limited, of San Francisco, as tourist representative of New Zealand.

Dr J. A. Jenkins, Dunedin, Dr W. p. p. Gordon, Stratford, and Dr JHardie Neil, Auckland, will represent the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association at the Pan-Pacific Surgical Conference to be held at Honolulu on August 14. It is officially announced in a cable message from Sydn?y that ActingJustice E. Milner Stephen has been appointed to succeed Mr Justice Campbell as a judge of the Supreme Court. Two new acting justices, Mr J. H. Hammond, K.C., and Mr A. V. Maxwell,, K.C., were also appointed. A cable message from London announces that Captain K. G. B. Dewar, formerly commander of the Royal Oak and involved In the incident which culminated in the court-martial at Gibraltar, has been appointed a nava, aide-de-camp to the King. The Hon. P. O. de la PerreUe, Minister of Internal Affairs, visited Alexandra, Lawrence, and Beaumont, meeting a cordial reception everywhere. In reply to a request by the Dunstan Racing Club for a totalisator permit, the Minister, while expressing sympathy, said the matter must first go before the Racing Conference. Sir Apirana Ngata (Minister for Native Affairs), Chief Judge Jones of the Native Land Court, Mr Tuti Makitanara (M.P. for Southern Maoris), Mr D Erlchana, North Island representative, and Mr H. Wixon, South Island representative, together with other members of the official party which visited Southland in connection with the Ngaitahu claim, left by the express yesterday afternoon for Dunedin en route to Wellington.