PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18513, 10 March 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr G. N. McLean, of Amberley, was in Timaru on Saturday.

Mr J. Hutchinson arrived back at Timaru from the north on Saturday. Mr R. A. Smith, of Los Angeles, U.S.A.. paid a short visit to Timaru at the week-end.

professor W. H. Gould. Professor of Education at Victoria University College, has returned from a six months tour abroad.

The Rev. Arthur E. Coxon, 8.A., BD who has been appointed to the charge of the Unitarian Church to Wellington, arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa.

Sir George Elliot, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, returned from Sydney by the Ulimaroa after a short visit to the Commonwealth.

A cable message from Copenhagen announces that Mr George Hoost has been appointed Consul-General for Australia and New Zealand. He will be domiciled in Sydney, where he replaces Mr Lunn, who has been transferred to Shanghai.

His Lordship the Bishop of Ao-tea-roa (Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett) arrived in Timaru from the Chatham Islands on Saturday, and left by the second express en route to Wellington. His Lordship has definitely decided, owing to pressure of work, not to attend the Lambeth conference.

Mr S. E. Chatterton. of Sydney, chairman of directors of Woolworths (New Zealand), Ltd., is revisiting Christchurch after an absence of 23 years. Mr Chatterton was born in Canterbury, and his presence in Christchurch is occasioned by the opening there of a branch of Woolworths.

Mr George Baldwin, who for nearly three years has been resident in Sydney as American Trade Commissioner, arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa. He will leave Auckland next week for the States, where he is to take up an important executive position in the Department of Commerce at Washington. Dr. R. J. Vickery and Mr R. R. Haddon, of Cambridge, are visiting Christchurch, investigating certain aspects of the frozen meat industry. They will visit all the freezing works in the Dominion. and will take a small consignment of meat back to England. They were sent to New Zealand at a request of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

A British official wireless message states that Air Vice-Marshal Sir R. Brooks-Popham. at present in command of the Royal Air Force in Iraq, has been selected for appointment as Commander of the Imperial Defence College, in succession to Major-Gene-ral Bartholomew, who is due to vacate the appointment at the end of December. The appointment is at present for a period of two years, and is filled by each of the service in turn.

Bishop West-Watson and Mrs WestWatson will leave Christchurch on 21st March, and sail from Auckland on 24th or 25th March by the Niagara for Sydney. They will stay a few days in Sydney with the Archbishop until the Narkunda leaves for England on Ist April. The Bishop is to attend the Lambeth Conference of Bishops, and Mrs West-Watson will attend the World Conference of the Mother** Union.