PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18291, 14 June 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr Bernard Tripp leaves on Saturday for Wanganui and Napier, and will be away until the end of next month. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, M.L.C., was a passenger by the first express south yesterday. Mr T. McDonald, M.P. for the Southern Maori seat, was a passenger for the south by the Invercargill express yesterday morning. Tlie Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs, was a passenger for the south by the first express yesterday. Mr Herbert Brooks, Australia's new Commissioner-General to the United States, is aboard the Maunganui, which sailed from Sydney yesterday for Vancouver, via Wellington. A cable message from Washington reports that Sir Gilbert Murray is mentioned prominently in diplomatic circles as the next British Ambassador to the United States. It suggested that he might go to Washington at a relatively early date, and that Sir Esme Howard might retire before next February, when he is scheduled to leave Washington. A British wireless message from Rugby announces that it is officially announced that the King has appointed Sir Henry Slesser, K.C., to be Lord Justice of Appeal in place of Sir John Sankey, who is Lord Chancellor in the new Labour Government. Sir Henry Slesser was Solicitor-General In the

Labour Government in 1924. His appointment to a Judgeship creates a Parliamentary vacancy in South East Leeds, where at the General Election he defeated the Conservative candidate by a majority of 15.000.