PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18407, 8 March 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS.

MINISTERIAL. The Prime Minister left Queenstown to-day at 8.30 a.m. for Invercargill, via Lumsden and Winton. The Hon K. S. Williams is at Kingston to-day, and goes to Lumsden for the night. The Hon A. D. M’Leod is at Lumsden. The Hon W. Downie Stewart left Dunedin by the 11.34 a.m. express for Wellington to-day. The Minister for Justice and Defence (the Hon P. J. Rolleston) left Wellington on Monday for the north on an inspection ©f prisons and prison camps. The Minister expects to return to Wellington on Monday next. The Hon W. Nosworthy, Minister in charge of Tourist and Health Resorts, is visiting Rotorua on official business. Mr J. M’Combs, M.P., left Christchurch last evening for Wellington. Mr H. S. S. Kyle, M.P., of Riccarton, returned yesterday from the north. Mr P- J- Borthwick, of Christchurch, is visiting Auckland. Mr H. M’lntosh Ellis, Director of Forestry, is visiting Rotorua to attend a conference of forestry officials. General Stewart, of Canada, left Wellington on Monday afternoon on a visit to Auckland. Mr A. Lawrence Gee, Deputy-Mayor of Timaru, who has been in Christchurch on private business, returned south yesterday. At its meeting last evening the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury passed resolutions of regret at the deaths of the late Mr Justice Alpers and the late Mr T. W. Rowe. Miss M. I. Turnbull, lecturer in classics at the Otago University, who recently concluded a tour of the East, including Greece, has returned to Dunedin.

Colonel Howard Murray, C.1.E., of the Indian Army, accompanied by Mrs Murray, arrived at Wellington on Monday by the Manuka. They intend to make a six weeks’ tour of the Dominion.

Dean Russell, Emeritus Professor of Columbia University, arrived in Christchurch this morning. Dr Russell is specially interested in educational administration and all problems pertaining to it. He visits Canterbury College to-day.

Mr J. M'Kenzie, recently in the employ of the Sailor Gully Sluicing Company, Waitahuna Gully, has received a three 3-ears’ engagement with the East Asiatic Company in West Siam. Prior to his departure on Monday next Mr M’Kenzie was entertained at a social evening by the members of the Waitahuna Presbyterian Church choir and a number of friends in the Sunday school hall. Mr D. Murdoch, on behalf of the choir, presented Mr M’Kenzie with a fountain pen, and in doing so expressed regret at the departure of Mr M’Kenzie from their midst, and wished him success in his new venture.

Messrs R. V. Hughes (Wellington), F. M. Hudson and E. F. Saker (Auckland) are guests at the Clarendon Hotel.

Messrs W. E. Jackson, F. F. Jones, W. S. Duckworth (Wellington), and N. H. D’Arcy (Wanganui) are recent arrivals at Warner’s Hotel.

Dr J. E. Russell, director of Columbia University, and his son, Mr J. M. Russell (Washington, US. A.) are guests at the United Service Hotel.

Amongst the recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel are Messrs B. L. Shepherd, J. 11. Turner and T. B. Gusscott (Wellington).

A London cable message states that Major Nugent, who was on the Duke of York’s staff during his visit to Australia and New Zealand, has been gazetted as the Duke's extra equerry-. Sir Francis Boys, who intends to leave New Zealand next month, on a business trip, has been granted six months’ leave of absence from meetings of the Waimakariri Trust, of which he is a member.

At last night’s meeting of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute, members congratulated Dr C. C. Farr on his having been admitted to a fellowship of the Royal Society

Mr W. D. M. Clark, British Trade Commissioner at Calcutta, has arrived on a visit to Christchurch, and is the guest of Mrs J. E. Baker, Park Terrace.

Mr Saaga, who for thirty-eight years has been working as a native tutor in Samoa, was welcomed to the Congregational Assembly by the Rev D. Gard ner Miller last evening.

Cabled advice has been received that Mr F. W. W. Rhodes, M.A., of CanCollege, who recently went into residence at Hertford College, Oxford, has been awarded a Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship by the Oxford University.

Dr Wallace Mackenzie, an old Auckland Grammar boy-, w-hose mother lives in Ponsonby, has accepted the offer of Mr Carl Beck, the well-known surgeon of Chicago, who has left on a world tour of six months, to take charge of his practice. Dr Wallace Mackenzie left Auckland about nine years ago to stud}’ - at Edinburgh University, where he passed with honours.

Messrs R. M. D. Morten and W. H. Nicholson have been appointed by the Canterbury’ - Agricultural and Pastoral Association to join a deputation organised by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. The deputation will wait upon the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon O. J. Hawken) on his next visit to Christchurch to discuss research work in cereAls and other farm crops, and to urge the necessity for procuring near Christchurch an area suitable for continuing the experiments carried on at the Ashburton experimental farm, the lease of which is about to expire.